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Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield, the eldest child of three.

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Hepworth first studied at Wakefields Girls Highschool, then Leeds school of art and then on to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art London.

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Hepworth Marries sculptor John Skeaping in Florence, they move back to London due to Skeapings ill health

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There first child John Skeaping was born on 3rd August. Meets Ben Nicholson and separates from Skeaping.

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Exhibition of the Group Unit One
October 3rd 1934 Birth of 3 triplets
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquires its first Hepworth, Discs in Echelon (1935, darkwood)

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Exhibits in the Guggenheim Jeune just before the outbreak of the war
Hepworth and Nicholson move to St Ives Cornwall, there where cramped conditions and not much time to work, Hepworth worked at night not making anything major until 1943

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Mall studio was Bombed destroying any work there
They move to a larger house with a studio for Hepworth
1943 first retrospective exhibition held in Leeds

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Hepworth buys Trewyn Studio in St Ives, where she lives permanently from December 1950 until her death (it is now the Barbara Hepworth Museum, opened by her family in 1976 and since 1980 an outpost of the Tate Gallery)

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The Tate Gallery acquires its first Hepworth sculpture, Bicentric Form, 1949.
Marriage to Ben Nicholson dissolved in October 1951
13 February 1953, death of son Paul in RAF plane crash over Thailand. Carves  Monolith (Empyrean) as a memorial to Paul and his navigator.

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First one-person exhibition at Gimpel Fils in London in June. Begins to work in sheet metal and bronze.
Major bronze sculpture Meridian commissioned for State House, London in 1958

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Acquires the Palais de Danse, a former cinema and dance hall, opposite Trewyn Studio for use as a workshop, especially for works to be cast in bronze, and as a store and display space.
BBC television film Barbara Hepworth directed by John Read.
Winged Figure is unveiled on the John Lewis department store, Oxford Street, London 1963

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Made a Dame Commander of the British Empire. Appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery (until 1972), the first female trustee. Cancer of the tongue is diagnosed; Hepworth is treated at Westminster Hospital, London.

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Breaks femur in Scilly Isles in June: this was to cause her lasting mobility problems.
1971 The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960–69, edited by Alan Bowness, is published.

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Hepworth celebrates her 70th birthday in St Ives. Elected Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, New York, in March–April

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20 May, Hepworth dies in an accidental fire at Trewyn Studio, aged 72.