Thursday, September 30, 2010

RABINDRANATH TAGORE: A TIMELINE




7th May, 1861 - Born in Calcutta, India.
1868 - Wrote his first poem when he was just 7 years old.
1878 - Tagore's first book of poems 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 was published. 
1890 - Settled at Shilaidaha in Kushthia (now in Bangladesh) 
2nd December, 1901 - Founded school at Shanti Niketan .
1902 to 1907 - Rabindranath's wife, father, daughter Renuka and son Samindra died.
1905 - Bengal was partitioned; Rabindranath was gripped by the fever of Nationalism. 
1910 - He got his son married 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 the Jallianwala massacre incident. 
1924 - Tagore opened Vishva Bharati University at Shanti Niketan.
1929 - Tagore began painting.
7th August, 1941- Rabindranath Tagore died in Calcutta, India

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