泰戈尔年表

Chronology -- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for literature is among the leading personalities of Modern India. He was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature for his collection of well known poems Gitanjali.

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