| 1871 | Renoir returns to Paris during the Commune. |
| 1872 | Studio in the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. "Le Pont-Neuf." |
| 1873 | Meets Durand-Ruel. Studio in the Rue Saint-Georges. Paints with Monet at Argenteuil on the banks of the Seine. |
| 1874 | First Group Exhibition of the Impressionists. "Box at the Theater." Meets Caillebotte. Both Renoir and Monet paint "Sailboats at Argenteuil." Death of his father. |
| 1875 | Auction-sale at the Hôtel Drouot with Monet, Sisley, Berthe Morisot. Meets Chocquet. "Les Grands Boulevards." |
| | 1875 Death of Corot. |
| 1876 | Second Group Exhibition of the Impressionists. Meets the publisher Charpentier. Two portraits of Chocquet, "Le Moulin de la Galette." |
| 1877 | Third Group Exhibition. "Portrait of Jeanne Samary." |
| | 1877 Death of Courbet. |
| 1878 | "Madame Charpentier and her Daughters." |
| | 1878 Duret publishes "Les peintres impressionnistes." |
| 1879 | Accepted at the Salon with his portraits of Jeanne Samary and Madame Charpentier, Renoir takes no part in the Fourth Group Exhibition. Meets the diplomat Paul Bérard, who invites him for the summer to his home at Wargemont, near Berneval on the Channel coast. |
| 1880 | Stays at Croissy, an island in the Seine near Bougival, at an inn run by "la mère Fournalse." where he begins , The Luncheon of the Boating Party," for which his wife-to-be, Aline Charigot, is one of the models. |
| 1881 | Travels to Algeria in the spring, and stays at Wargemont during the summer. Leaves for Italy in the autumn, visiting Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Pompeii. |
| 1882 | Palermo: "Portrait of Wagner." On the way back he visits Cézanne at L'Estaque, where he catches pneumonia. Conva- lesces at Algiers. Seventh Group Exhibition. |
| 1883 | One-man show in April, arranged by Durand-Ruel; Duret prefaces the catalogue. Summer in Guernsey. A trip with Monet in December from Marseilles to Genoa; they visit Cézanne at L'Estaque. Reads Cennino Cennini's treatise on painting. "The Umbrellas." |
| | 1883 Death of Manet. |