1872, Aug.

15

?????- Sri Aurobindo is born in Calcutta; he spends his first years at Rangpur (now in Bangladesh), and at the age of 5 is sent to Loreto Convent School, Darjeeling.

1878, Feb. 21 1879, June

?????- Mother is born in Paris. ?????????- Sri Aurobindo leaves India for England with his parents and his two elder brothers. He spends 5 years in Manchester, enters St. Paul's School, London, in 1884, and King's College, Cambridge, in 1890.

1885, Dec.

??????????- First session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay.

1886, Aug. 16 1892, August

?????- Sri Ramakrishna passes away. ??????- Sri Aurobindo passes the I.C.S.; he does not appear at a riding test and is disqualified.

1893, Feb. 6

???????- Lands at Bombay and soon joins the State service of the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. From August, 1893 to March, 1894, contributes to the Indu Prakash a series of articles, ?New Lamps for Old.?

1893, May 31 1894, April 8

?????- Swami Vivekananda sails for America. ???????- Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July-August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Indu Prakash.

1897

???????????????????-

Sri

Aurobindo

teaches

French, then English at the Baroda College; he will become its Vice-Principal in 1905.

1897, Jan. 15

?????- Swami Vivekananda lands at Colombo, and on his way north delivers many lectures throughout India.

c. 1900

???????????????- Sri Aurobindo takes first contacts with secret societies in Maharashtra and Bengal.

1901, April 30 1902, July 4 1905

?????- Sri Aurobindo marries Mrinalini Bose. ????????- Swami Vivekananda passes away. ???????????????????Sri Aurobindo writes

Bhawani Mandir, a revolutionary pamphlet. ???????????????????????????Partition of

Bengal, beginning of the Swadeshi movement. 1906, August ??????- Bepin Chandra Pal launches the Bande Mataram (English daily); Sri Aurobindo joins it and soon becomes its editor. ???????????????????????????- On August 15, the Bengal National College opens with Sri Aurobindo as its principal. 1906, Dec. ??????????- At its Calcutta session presided over by Dadabhai Naoroji, the Congress declares Swaraj to be its goal. 1907, Aug. 16 ?????- Sri Aurobindo is arrested for the publication of seditious writings in the Bande Mataram; released on bail. He resigns his post of principal of the Bengal National College, giving on August 23 a speech to the students and teachers. Acquitted a month later.

1907, Dec.

??????????- At the Surat session of the Congress, the Nationalist party with Sri Aurobindo presiding over its conference breaks away from the Moderates. ???????????????????????????- First session of the Muslim League at Karachi.

1908, January

????- In Baroda, Sri Aurobindo meets Vishnu Bhaskar Lele, a Maharashtrian yogi, and experiences the Brahman consciousness. Gives many speeches on his way back to Calcutta.

1907-1908

??????????- Many Nationalist leaders, such as Lala Lajpat Rai, Tilak, Ashwini Kumar Dutt, etc., are deported under various repressive laws. The

Nationalist movement goes underground. 1908, May 2 ???????- Sri Aurobindo is arrested in the Alipore Bomb Case; spends a year in jail and is acquitted on May 6, 1909. 1909 ???????????????????- The Morley-Minto reforms provide separate electorates for Indian Muslims. 1909, May 30 1909, June 19 1909, Aug. 23 ?????- Sri Aurobindo's famous Uttarpara speech. ????- First issue of the Karmayogin (English weekly). ?????- First issue of the Dharma (Bengali weekly).

1910, February ???- Sri Aurobindo abruptly leaves Calcutta for Chandernagore; on March 31, he will leave for Pondicherry. 1910, April 4 ???????- Sri Aurobindo reaches Pondicherry.

???????????????????????????-

Charged

with

sedition for an article in the Karmayogin (the charge will be rejected in November). 1914, March 29 ??- First meeting with Mother. 1914, June ?????????- Tilak is released from a six-year-long deportation to Burma. 1914, Aug. 15 ?????- First issue of the Arya (English monthly), which will appear until January, 1921. 1916, Dec. ??????????- ?Lucknow Pact? between the Congress and the Muslim League. 1919-1920 ??????????- Beginning of the Khilafat and noncooperation movements under the growing leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. 1920 ???????????????????- Sri Aurobindo turns down several offers to return to British India and to active politics. 1920, April 24 1920, Aug. 1 1920, October 1920, Dec. ?????- Mother returns to Pondicherry from Japan. ???????- Lokmanya Tilak passes away. ????- Dr. B. S. Munje pays a visit to Sri Aurobindo. ??????????- Nagpur session of the Congress; the goal of Swaraj is eclipsed by the Khilafat agitation. 1923, June 5 1923, Sept. ??????- Chittaranjan Das meets Sri Aurobindo. ?????????- Creation of the Swarajya Party.

1925, Jan. 5

???????- Lala Lajpat Rai and Purushottamdas Tandon meet Sri Aurobindo.

1925, June 16 1926, Nov. 24

????- Deshbandu Chittaranjan Das passes away. ?????Sri Aurobindo withdraws completely to

concentrate on his work. 1928, Feb. 16 1928, Nov. 17 ?????- Rabindranath Tagore meets Sri Aurobindo. ?????- Lala Lajpat Rai passes away a few weeks after having been assaulted by the police during a demonstration at Lahore. 1929, Dec. ??????????- The Lahore session of the Congress, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, adopts the goal of complete independence. 1930-1932 ??????????- Three Round Table Conferences with, in August 1932, the Communal Award which hardens divisions between Hindus and Muslims. Savage repression of the Civil Disobedience Movement by the British rulers. 1937 ???????????????????ministries in the Provinces. 1938, Nov. 24 ?????- Sri Aurobindo breaks his leg while walking in concentration. 1939, Sept. ?????????- World War II breaks out; the Provincial ministries resign in October-November. 1940, March ???????- The Muslim League, in session at Lahore, formally demands the creation of Pakistan. Formation of Congress

1940, Sept. 19

????- Sri Aurobindo's declaration in support of the Allies.

1941, March

???????-

Subhas

Bose,

having

escaped

from

detention in Calcutta, arrives in Germany. 1941, Aug. 7 ???????- Rabindranath Tagore passes away.

1942, March 31 ??- Sri Aurobindo publicly supports Cripps' proposals; the Congress turns them down. 1942, April ??????????- The Japanese overrun Burma and bomb cities on India's east coast. 1942, Aug. 9 ???????- Start of the ?Quit India? movement; Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders are arrested soon afterwards. 1944, July ???????????- Subhas Bose's Indian National Army and the Japanese are repulsed in Manipur. 1946, Aug. 16 ?????- The Muslim League launches its ?Direct Action? plan; bloody riots follow in Bengal and Bihar. 1946, Sept. 2 ??????- Formation of the Interim Government, which the Muslim League joins a month later. 1947, March 24 ??- Lord Mountbatten is the new Viceroy. 1947, June ?????????- On the 3rd, Mountbatten announces the British government's final decision to grant India independence on the basis of partition; on the 14th, the Congress accepts the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan.

1947, Aug. 15

?????- India's Independence; Sri Aurobindo's 75th birthday.

1947, October

????- Pakistan attacks Kashmir; the Indian army repels Pakistani troops, but Nehru calls a halt to the fighting and takes the dispute to the United Nations.

1948, Jan. 30 1950, October

?????- Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated. ????- China invades Tibet; India remains a silent spectator.

1950, Dec. 5

???????- Sri Aurobindo leaves his body. Mother continues his work.

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1872 15 August, birth of Sri Aurobindo, in Calcutta.

1878 21 February, birth of The Mother, in Paris, 62 boulevard Haussmann.

1879 Departure of Sri Aurobindo for England.

1886-97 Mother lives at 3 square du Roule.

1890 Sri Aurobindo at King's College, Cambridge.

Mother's first experience: the "Revolution of Atoms."

1893 Sri First Aurobindo returns to India.

revolutionary

article.

1897 13 October, Mother's marriage to Henri Morisset. Atelier, 15 rue Lemercier.

1898 23 August, birth of Andr Morisset.

1902 Beginning activities. of Sri Aurobindo's revolutionary

1903 Sri Aurobindo has the experience of the Infinite.

1904 Mother has her first vision of Sri Aurobindo. Beginning Mother's of first Sri meeting Aurobindo's with Max yoga. Theon.

1905-6 Voyages to Tlemcen.

1906 Mother founds her first group: Idea.

1907 First arrest of Sri Aurobindo.

1908 Divorce Mother from moves to H. 49 rue Morisset. de Lvis.

January: Sri Aurobindo meets the tantric yogi V. Lele. Realization of mental silence and Nirvana. 2 May, the "Alipore Bomb Case": imprisonment of Sri Aurobindo, for one year.

1910 February, Sri Aurobindo in French escapes India. to

Chandernagor,

4 April, Sri Aurobindo takes refuge in Pondicherry.

April, Paul Richard's first visit to Pondicherry. Marriage of Mirra to Paul Richard, 7-9 rue du Val de Grce.

1911 Beginning of Prayers and Meditations.

1914 7 March, Mother embarks for India aboard the Kaga Maru.

29 March, meeting of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. 1 15 August, August, declaration first issue of of the war. Arya.

1915

22 February, Mother leaves Pondicherry for France aboard the Kamo Maru.

1916 13 March, Mother embarks at London aboard the Kamo Maru for Japan.

1920 April, 24 Mother April, arrival leaves in Japan. Pondicherry

24 November, Mother comes to live near Sri Aurobindo January, in end the Guest of House. the 1921

Arya.

1922 October, Sri Aurobindo and Mother take up residence at 9 rue de la Marine, the present Ashram building.

1922-26 Period of the "Evening Talks."

1926 24 November, Sri of Aurobindo the withdraws. 1927

Official

founding

Ashram.

8 February, Sri Aurobindo moves to a room in the East Wing that he will never again leave.

1935 August, Sri Aurobindo's "Mathematical Formula." October, the Supramental "will explain itself."

1938 24 November, Sri Aurobindo fractures his right leg.

1939 Sri 1 Aurobindo September, revises The Life of Divine. war.

declaration

1943 2 December, beginning of the Ashram School.

1947 15 August, Independence of India.

1949 21 February, beginning of the Bulletin of Physical Education.

1950 10 November, end of the revision of Savitri. 5 December, Sri Aurobindo leaves his body. 9 December, Sri Aurobindo's body is placed in the Samadhi.