| 1898 | Born in Geneva May 12 - his father dies 2 monthes later at 70 years old |
| 1904 | death of his mother at the age of 42 - Paul moves to an uncle's house (Ormond) |
| 1905 | school in Geneva |
| 1914 | encounter with teacher Jules Dubois |
| 1917-1923 | medical studies in Geneva |
| 1920-1921 | swiss president of student movement "Zofingia" |
| 1920-1921 | Red Cross delegate for rapatriation of prisoners of war in Vienna |
| 1923 | final medical examinations in Geneva |
| 1924 | marriage with Nelly Bouvier |
| 1923-1924 | Assistant medical doctor at the Medical Policlinic in Geneva (Prof. Bickel) |
| 1925 | opens a private medical practice in Geneva and birth of his first son Jean-Louis (†2002) |
| 1928 | birth of his second son Gabriel |
| 1932 | encounter with Oxford Group |
| 1937 | transformation of his private medical practice into counselling practice |
| 1938-1939 | writing his first book "Médecine de la Personne" |
| 1940 | publication in French (later in English: "The Healing of Persons") |
| 1939-1945 | military service in Switzerland alternating with his medical practice |
| 1946 | separation from Oxford Movement (Moral Rearmement) |
| 1946 | encounter with Viktor V. Weizsäcker at a medical Congress in Bad Boll, Germany |
| 1947 | first meeting of the international study group "Médecine de La Personne" in Bossey, meeting every year from then on |
| 1950 | first lecture tour in Athens and in Crete, Greece |
| 1950- | since this time, writing a new book every 1 - 5 years (totaling over 20) |
| 1961-1965 | speaking tour in the USA |
| 1963 | speaker at ICCP in Amsterdam, NL |
| 1966 | lung emboly |
| 1967 | moving to his own house "The wheat corn" in Troinex, Geneva |
| 1968 | lecture tour in Japan and Iran |
| 1974 | his wife Nelly dies in Athens |
| 1978 | speaker at ICCP / ICCMS in Davos, Switzerland |
| 1979 | lecture tour in South African Countries |
| 1982 | reconciliation with Caux (Moral Rearmement now becomes Initiative of Change) |
| 1983-1986 | yearly cruises in the Mediterranean giving short lectures |
| 1984 | wedding with Corinne O'Rama in Geneva |
| 1984-1985 | lecture tours in the USA |
| 1986 | last participation as speaker in a conference in Strasbourg |
| 1986 | died October 7 in Troinex, Switzerland |
