| 1872 | Paul Juon is born in Moscow on March 8. His father, Theodor Friedrich Juon, (born Dec. 14 1842 in Goldingen) was the son of a confectioner who had emigrated from Masein (Thusis,Grisons, Switzerland) in 1830. Paul attends the German Primary School in Moscow. |
| 1885 | First attempts at composition. |
| 1889 | Starts studying the violin with Jan Hrimaly and composition with Sergei Tenejev and Anton Arensky. |
| 1894 | ‘Zwei Romanzen’ for voice and piano are printed in Moscow on private initiative. Studies in composition with Woldemar Bargiel (1828 – 1897) at the ‘Musikhochschule’ in Berlin . |
| 1896 | Marriage to Katharina Schalchalova. ‘Mendelssohn Prize’ for composition. Professor of Music Theory and Violin at the Conservatory in Baku. Works for the newspaper ‘Kaspi’ as a music critic. Performance of the Symphony op. 10 in Kislovodsk (North Caucasus) on August 24 and the opera ‘Aleko’ in Tiflis and Kislovodsk. Both scores still exist but have never been printed. |
| 1898 | Juon moves to Berlin. ‘Schlesinger’sche Buch- und Musikhandlung’ (Robert Lienau) publishes some of his works. |
| 1900 | He translates the book ‘Practical Studies in Harmony’, by his former teacher A. Arensky, into German. |
| 1901 | Publication of Juon’s ‘Practical Harmony’. Scholarship from the Franz-Liszt Foundation. Translation of Modest Tchaikovsy’s ‘Biography of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’ (2 volumes, Moscow/Leipzig 1903). |
| 1905 | Successful performance of the Symphony in A maj. op. 23 in Meiningen with Fritz Steinbacher. |
| 1906 | Joseph Joachim appoints him to the chair of composition at the ‘Hochschule für Musik’ in Berlin where he teaches till 1934. Hans Chemin-Petit, Philipp Jarnach, Heinrich Kaminski and Stefan Wolpe are among his students. |
| 1911 | Death of his wife Katharina. They had three children: Ina, Aja, Ralf. |
| 1912 | Marriage to Marie (called Armande) Hegner-Günthert, the widow of his friend Otto Hegner in Vevey. Their children are Stella, Irsa and Rémi. First edition of his works in America. |
| 1915-18 | Juon works as translater in a prison camp in Heiligenbeil (East Prussia). |
| 1919 | Member of the ‘Prussian Academy of Arts’. New edition of his Reference book on Harmony. |
| 1922 | Together with his brother Eduard he visits Masein, their Swiss home municipality, and receives the confirmation of his civil rights. |
| 1929 | Award of the Beethoven Prize to Juon and Josef Haas. Publication of ‘Instructions on Modulation’. |
| 1930 | First recording of ‘Kammersinfonie’ op. 27 in England. |
| 1934 | Juon retires early and settles in Vevey. |
| 1938 | Great success with the first performance of ‘Rhapsodische Sinfonie’ op. 95 at the ‘Reichsmusiktagen Düsseldorf’. |
| 1940 | Juon dies on August 21 in Vevey. He is buried in Langenbruck (near Basel, Switzerland). In Zurich, Berlin and other places commemorative concerts are held with ‘Sinfonietta capricciosa’ op. 98. |
| 1995 | Juon’s estate comes into the possession of the ‘Bibiothèque cantonale et universitaire’ in Lausanne, where his entire work and many documents are avai-lable in the ‘Fond Paul Juon’ (FPJ). |
| 1998 | Foundation of the International Juon Society (IJG) and publication of ‘Thematisches Werkverzeichnis’ by Thomas Badrutt. |
| 2014 | Publication of the 3rd, revised and enlarged edition of ‘Thematisches Werkverzeichnis’ |