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| 7 May 1861 | Born in Calcutta, India | ||
| 1868 | Wrote his first poem when he was just 7 years | ||
| 1878 | Tagore's first book of poetries appeared | ||
| 1878 | Went to England for higher studies | ||
| 1879 | Came back to India | ||
| 1883 | Got married to Mrinalini Devi | ||
| 1890 | Manasi, a collection of Tagore's poems were published | ||
| 1890 | Settled at Shilaidaha in Kushthia (now in Bangladesh) | ||
| 22 Dec 1901 | Founded school at Shanti Niketan | ||
| 1902-1907 | Rabindranath's wife, father, daughter Renuka and son Samindra died | ||
| 1905 | Bengal was partitioned, Rabindranath was gripped by fever of Nationalism | ||
| 1910 | He got married his son to a young widow Pratima Devi. He was a staunch supporter of widow remarriage | ||
| 1910 | Wrote Gitanjali in Bengali | ||
| 1911 | Wrote Jana Gana Mana which later became our National Anthem | ||
| 1912 | Gitanjali was published in English | ||
| 1913 | Awarded Nobel prize in literature | ||
| 1915 | Knighted by the British king George | ||
| 1919 | Renounced his knighthood following Jallianwala massacre incident | ||
| 1924 | Tagore opened Vishva Bharati University at Shanti Niketan | ||
| 1929 | Tagore began painting | ||
| 1939 | Tagore asked Gandhiji to lift the ban on Subhash Chandra Bose and have his cooperation cordially invited in the "supreme interest of national unity" | ||
| 7 Aug 1941 | Rabindranath Tagore died in Calcutta, India |
Poems and Books of Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore's famous novels are:
Tagore's famous two stories are:
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Links to poems:
Gitanjali | Where the mind is without fear
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