| 1882 | Born September 11 in Berlin |
| Studies violine, piano and theory |
| Violinist at Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 1902–1904 | Kapellmeister in Aschaffenburg and Görlitz |
| 1904–1905 | Military service |
| 1904–1925 | Writes articles for the program books of the Berliner Philharmoniker |
| 1906 | Music critic of Berliner Blätter |
| Articles in Neueste Berliner Nachrichten and Berliner Allgemeine Zeitung |
| Correspondence with Richard Strauß |
| 1909 | Marriage with Dora Zelle (1876 –1974) |
| 1910 | Correspondence with the musicologist Werner Wolffheim (1877–1930) |
| 1911 | Birth of son Konrad (1909 – 1981) |
| 1911–1925 | Music critic of the Frankfurter Zeitung |
| 1914–1918 | War service and wounding |
| 1918 | Lecture: Über die Sinfonie seit Beethoven, Vereinigung für neue Kunst in Frankfurt |
| 1919 | Lecture: Kunst und Revolution, Süddeutsche Konzertdirektion, Frankfurt and Freidenker-Vereinigung, Frankfurt |
| Meets Hanna vom Rath at the May Day celebration of the Social Democratic Association in the Frankfurt Festhalle |
| Divorce from Dora Bekker |
| 1920 | Marriage with Hanna vom Rath |
| Move to Hofheim am Taunus |
| 1921 | Birth of daughter Barbara (1921–2018) |
| Purchase of the house Kapellenstraße in Hofheim |
| Visits from Franz Schreker, Ernst Krenek, Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel et alt. to Hofheim |
| 1923 | Birth of son Kilian (1923-1943) |
| 1924 | Lectures Neue Musik in Zurich and Die Opernszene der Romantik in Bern |
| Paul und Hanna Bekker travel to Vienna and Prag |
| Establishment of the Funkhochschule Frankfurt, Department of Art and Art History together with Hans Flesch (Director-General of Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk) and Ernst Schoen |
| 1925 | Artistic Director of the Hessische Staatstheater in Kassel (until 1927) |
| Member of Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte, Berlin |
| Correspondence with Ludwig Meidner, Max Reger et alt. |
| 1927 | Elected to the Cultural Advisory Board of the Südwestdeutsche Rundfunk |
| Birth of daughter Maximiliane (1927–2017) |
| General Director of the Preussische Staatstheater Wiesbaden (until 1932) |
| 1929 | Member of Vereinigung künstlerischer Bühnenvorstände and of Vereinigung deutscher Theaterintendanten, Berlin |
| 1930 | Divorce from Hanna Bekker |
| 1932–1934 | Move to Berlin (until July 1933) |
| Escape via Switzerland to France |
| Writes music critics for the Pariser Tageblatt |
| Articles for Neue Zürcher Zeitung from Paris, Italy and Athens |
| 1934 | Emigration to New York |
| Articles by Paul Bekker published by New York Staatszeitung et alt. |
| Gives musicological lectures at New School for Social Research, New York |
| 1935 | Paul Bekker marries the singer Grete (Margit) Reinhard (1889–1988), who had been engaged in Kassel and in Wiesbaden |
| 1937 | Dies March 7 in New York. |
