The main dates of the first three generations of the García school, from the birth of the founder to the death of his most important pupil.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1775 | 21 January: Manuel García born in Seville. |
| 1798–1807 | García writes and sings tonadillas and short operas in Madrid. |
| 1805 | 17 March: Manuel Patricio García (the son) born in Madrid. |
| 1808 | García in Paris. 24 March: Maria García (Malibran) born in Paris. |
| 1811–1812 | García in Italy; first tenor of the royal chapel in Naples; studies with Giovanni Ansani. |
| 1815 | 4 October: creates Norfolk in Rossini's Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (Naples). |
| 1816 | 20 February: creates Almaviva in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rome). |
| 1821 | 18 July: Pauline García (Viardot) born in Paris. 24 March: Mathilde Graumann (Marchesi) born in Frankfurt. |
| 1825 | Malibran's London debut as Rosina. 29 November: the García company opens the first Italian opera season in New York. |
| 1826 | 23 May: Don Giovanni in New York with Lorenzo Da Ponte present. |
| 1827–1829 | The company in Mexico; return to Paris in 1829. |
| 1832 | June: death of Manuel García in Paris. |
| 1836 | 23 September: death of Maria Malibran in Manchester. |
| 1839 | Pauline Viardot's opera debut in London as Desdemona. |
| 1840 | Part I of García's Traité complet de l'art du chant. |
| 1841 | García's Mémoire sur la voix humaine presented to the French Academy of Sciences. |
| 1845 | Mathilde Graumann begins study with García in Paris. |
| 1847 | Part II of the Traité. |
| 1848 | García moves to London; professor at the Royal Academy of Music. |
| 1849 | Viardot creates Fidès in Meyerbeer's Le prophète. |
| 1854 | September: García observes his own larynx with mirrors. |
| 1855 | 22 March: 'Observations on the Human Voice' received by the Royal Society. |
| 1859 | Viardot sings Gluck's Orphée in Berlioz's edition at the Théâtre Lyrique. |
| 1881 | Mathilde Marchesi opens her school in Paris. |
| 1894 | García publishes Hints on Singing. |
| 1895 | García retires from the Royal Academy of Music after 47 years. |
| 1905 | 17 March: García's hundredth birthday celebrated in London. |
| 1906 | 1 July: death of Manuel García in London. |
| 1908 | Mackinlay's biography Garcia the Centenarian and His Times published. |
| 1910 | 18 May: death of Pauline Viardot in Paris. |
| 1913 | 17 November: death of Mathilde Marchesi in London. |
Sources: Radomski, Manuel García (1775–1832) (Oxford University Press); Radomski, "Manuel Garcia: A Bicentenary Reflection" (2005); M. Sterling Mackinlay, Garcia the Centenarian and His Times (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1908); García, "Observations on the Human Voice", Proceedings of the Royal Society 7 (1855), 399–410; "Señor Manuel Garcia", Nature 71 (1905), 491–494