Year(s)	Events
1872	August 15 Birth in Calcutta.
1872-1879	At first in Rangpur, East Bengal; later sent to the Loreto Convent School, Darjeeling.
1878	February 21 Birth of the Mother in Paris.
1879	Taken to England.
1879-1884	In Manchester (84, Shakespeare Street) in the charge of the Drewett family. Tutored at home by the Drewetts.
1884	September Admitted to St. Paul's School, London. Takes lodgings at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, London.
1886	August Vacation in Keswick.
1887	August Vacation in Hastings.
1887	After returning from Hastings takes lodgings at 128, Cromwell Road, London.
1889	December Passes Matriculation from St. Paul's.
1890	July Admitted as a probationer to the Indian Civil Service.
1890	October 11 Admitted on a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge.
1890	While at Cambridge, joins the Indian Majlis, a student group; makes speeches advocating Indian freedom.
1891	August to April 1892 Works on "The Vigil of Thaliard", a long ballad left unfinished.
1892	May Passes the first part of the Classical Tripos, in the First Class.
1892	August Passes the Indian Civil Service final examination.
1892	October Leaves Cambridge. Takes lodgings at 6, Burlington Road, London.
1892	In London, takes part in the formation of a secret society called the "Lotus and Dagger".
1892	Has first "pre-yogic" experience, the mental experience of the Atman.
1892	November Disqualified for the Indian Civil Service due to his failure to take the riding examination.
1892	December Obtains employment in the service of the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda.
1893	January 12 Leaves England by the S.S. Carthage. Travels via Gibraltar, Port Said and Aden.
1893	February 6 Arrives in India, landing at the Apollo Bunder, Bombay.
1893	A "vast calm" descends upon him as he sets foot on Indian soil and remains for months afterwards.
1893	February 18 Officially joins the Baroda State Service; his pay is retroactive to February 8, probable date of his arrival in Baroda. His first work is in the Survey Settlement Department.
1893	During the first year of his stay in Baroda, has a vision of the Godhead surging up from within ' him when in danger of a carriage accident.
1893	March-April Works at translations from the Mahabharata.
1893	Juue 26 Contributes an article, "India and the British Parliament", to the Induprakash, Bombay.
1893	August 7 - March 5, 1894 Contributes a series of articles. New Lamps for Old, to the Induprakash.
1894	July 16 - August 27 Contributes a series of articles on Bankim Chandra Chatterji to the Induprakash.
1895	Publication of Songs to Myrtilla, a collection of poems.
1896	Probable year of publication of Urvasie, a narrative poem.
1897	Begins part-time work in the Baroda College as a lecturer in French.
1898	Appointed acting Professor of English in the College.
1899	Serves as acting Professor of English and lecturer in French.
1899	June-July Writes Love and Death, a narrative poem.
1899	July 22 Lecture at the Baroda College Social Gathering.
1900	Acting Professor of English in the College.
c. 1900	First political move: sends Jatindranath Banerji to Bengal as his lieutenant for the work of revolutionary organisation and propaganda.
1901	Chairman of the College debating society.
1901	April 17 Transferred from the College to the Revenue Department, Baroda State.
1901	April 30 Marriage to Mrinalini Bose, eldest daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose, in Calcutta. Afterwards goes to Nainital with Mrinalini and his sister Sarojini.
1902	April 28 On privilege leave until May 29.
1902	Sri Aurobindo uses his leaves and vacations, especially from 1902 onwards, for the organisation of revolutionary action in Bengal.
1902	December Meeting with Lokmanya Tilak at the Ahmedabad session of the Indian National Congress.
1902-1903	Contacts and joins a secret society in western India.
1903	January Recommences teaching at the Baroda College.
1903	February 22 On leave for one month.
1903	May-August Accompanies the Gaekwar on his tour of Kashmir as his Private Secretary.
1903	In Kashmir on Takht-e-Suleman has an experience of the vacant infinite.
1904	Works as Huzur Kamdar, often doing secretarial work for the Gaekwar.
1904	September 28 Directed to leave the Huzur Kamdar's office and join the College full time.
1904	December At the Bombay session of the Indian National Congress.
1904	Begins the practice of Yoga.
1905	January Assumes the post of Vice-principal, Baroda College.
1905	March 3 Becomes acting Principal of the College.
1905	October 16 The Partition of Bengal becomes an "accomplished fact".
1905	Sri Aurobindo writes the pamphlets "No Compromise" and "Bhawani Mandir" during the agitation that precedes the Partition
1905	December At the Benares session of the Indian National Congress.
1906	February 19 Applies for privilege leave.
1906	March 2 Goes to Bengal.
1906	March 11 Present at the formation of the National Council of Education in Calcutta.
1906	March 12 Declaration of the Yugantar, a Bengali weekly. Sri Aurobindo writes some articles in the early numbers of this revolutionary journal and always exercises general control over it.
1906	April 14 At the Barisal Conference. Afterwards makes a political tour of East Bengal with Bepin Chandra Pal.
1906	June Returns to Baroda.
1906	June 19 Takes one year's leave without pay from Baroda College. Returns to Bengal.
1906	August 6 Declaration of the Bande Mataram. Sri Aurobindo joins the Bande Mataram as an assistant editor.
1906	August 14 Opening of the Bengal National College, Calcutta, with Sri Aurobindo as its principal.
1906	October 13 The Bande Mataram becomes a joint stock company at Sri Aurobindo's suggestion.
1906	October-December 111 in Calcutta.
1906	Around this time Sri Aurobindo assumes control of the policy of the Bande Mataram as well as of the Nationalist Party in Bengal.
1906	December 11-14 In Deoghar for recuperation.
1906	December At the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress.
1907	January-April In Deoghar.
1907	January 28 - February 12 Works on Prince ofEdur, a dramatic romance.
1907	April 12-23 The Doctrine of Passive Resistance serialised in the Bande Mataram.
1907	June 2 First issue of the weekly edition of the Bande Mataram.
1907	June 8 A warning is issued to the editor of the Bande Mataram by the British government.
1907	June 14 Leaves Calcutta for Khulna to found a national school.
1907	June 30 - October 13 Publication of Perseus the Deliverer, a drama, in the weekly Bande Mataram.
1907	July 30 Search of the Bande Mataram office. Complaint lodged against Sri Aurobindo.
1907	August 2 Resigns the principalship of the Bengal National College.
1907	August 16 Arrested on the charge of sedition for writings which had appeared in the BandeMataram; released on bail.
1907	August 23 Speech to the students of the Bengal National College.
1907	After his acquittal in September, he rejoins the College as a professor.
1907	September 23 Acquitted.
1907	After the Bande Mataram sedition case, Sri Aurobindo comes forward as the leader of the Nationalist Party in Bengal.
1907	October Takes a house in Chukoo Khansama's Lane, Calcutta. October 24 Goes to Deoghar.
1907	December 7-9 At the Bengal Provincial Conference at Midnapore as the leader of the Nationalists. December 8 Presides over a separate meeting of the Nationalists at Midnapore.
1907	December 14 Meeting in College Square, Calcutta; delivers his first public speech.
1907	December 15 Speech at a public meeting in Beadon Square, Calcutta. December 21 Leaves Calcutta for Surat, the venue of the 1907 session of the Indian National Congress.
1907	December 22 Addresses a meeting at Nagpur.
1907	December 24 - 25 At Surat, presides over the conferences of Nationalist delegates.
1907	December 26 First day of the Congress session at Surat.
1907	December 27 Second day of the session: Sri Aurobindo gives the order that leads to the breaking of the Congress.
1907	December 28 Presides over a meeting of the Nationalists.
1907	December 31 Leaves Surat for Baroda.
1908	January In Baroda.
1908	Meets Vishnu Bhaskar Leie, a Maharashtrian yogi. Following Leie's instructions, establishes
1908	complete silence of the mind attaining to the experience of the Silent Brahman.
1908	Gives three public speeches.
1908	January 12, 13 Speeches at Poona.
1908	January 15 "National Education" speech at Girgaum, Bombay.
1908	January 19 "The Present Situation" speech before the Bombay National Union.
1908	January 24 Speech at Nasik.
1908	January 26 Speech at Dhulia.
1908	January 28, 29 Speeches at Amravati.
1908	January 30, 31 Speeches at Nagpur.
1908	February 1 Speech at Nagpur.
1908	March 10 In Howrah at a public reception of Bepin Chandra Pal upon his release from jail.
1908	April 8 Speaks at a meeting at Chetala.
1908	April 10 "United Congress" Speech at Panti's ; Math, Calcutta. ;
1908	April 12 Speech at Baruipur.
1908	April 18 "Palli Samiti" speech at Kishoregunj.
1908	April 28 Changes his Calcutta lodgings from 23, Scotts Lane to 48. Grey Street (Navashakti Office).
1908	May 2 Arrested as implicated in the terrorist activities of a group led by his brother Barindra.Taken to the lock-up at Lal Bazar, Calcutta.
1908	Proceedings are instituted by the British government to deport Sri Aurobindo, but are later abandoned.
1908	May 5 Taken to Alipore Jail.
1908	May 5, 1908 - May 6, 1909 Undertrial prisoner at Alipore. Spends his time reading the Gita and the Upanishads and in meditation and the practice of Yoga. Has the realisation of the Cosmic Consciousness and of the Divine (Sri Krishna) as all beings and in all that is.
1908	May 19 Preliminary hearing in the Magistrate's Court begins.
1908	August 19 Committed to the Court of Sessions.
1908	October 19 Trial in the Sessions Court begins.
1909	March 4 Evidence concluded.
1909	April 13 Arguments concluded.
1909	April 14 Opinion of the Assessors.
1909	May 6 Acquitted and released.
1909	After his release and until February 1910, Sri Aurobindo stays at 6, College Square, Calcutta.
1909	May 14 Letter to the Bengalee, Calcutta.
1909	May 30 Speech at Uttarpara.
1909	June 13 Speech at Beadon Square, Calcutta.
1909	June 19 First issue of the Karmayogin, a weekly review directed and mostly written by Sri Aurobindo.
1909	June 19 Speech at Jhalakati, Barisal District.
1909	June 23 Speech at Bakergunj, Barisal District.
1909	June 26 Speech at Khulna.
1909	June 27 "The Right of Association" speech at Howrah.
1909	July 11 Speech at Kumartuli.
1909	July 18 Speech at College Square, Calcutta.
1909	July 31 "An Open Letter to My Countrymen" published by Sri Aurobindo in the Karmayogin following resumed efforts of the British government to have him deported.
1909	August 23 First issue of the Dharma, a Bengali weekly directed and mostly written by Sri Aurobindo.
1909	September Leader of the Nationalists at the Bengal Provincial Conference at Hooghly.
1909	September Attends a political conference at Sylhet.
1909	October 9 - November 13 The Brain of India in the Karmayogin.
1909	October 10 Speech at College Square, Calcutta.
1909	October 13 "Swadeshi in Calcutta" speech.
1909	October 18 Durga Stotra published in the Dharma.
1909	November 20 - December 25 The National Value of Art in the Karmayogin.
1909	December 25 "To My Countrymen" in the Karmayogin.
1910	February Leaves Calcutta for Chandernagore in French India.
1910	February 12 - April 2 A System of National Education in the Karmayogin.
1910	February 19 - March 5 Baji Prabhu in the Karmayogin.
1910	March 26 - April 2 "Chitrangada" in the Karmayogin.
1910	March 31 Leaves Chandernagore for Calcutta.
1910	April 1 Embarks for Pondicherry in French India by the S.S. Dupleix.
1910	April 4 Arrival in Pondicherry; stays in the house of Shanker Chetty in Comty Chetty Street.
1910	Although Sri Aurobindo changes his residence several times he never leaves Pondicherry.
1910	April 4 A warrant issued charging Sri Aurobindo with sedition for the article "To My Countrymen" published in the Karmayogin on December 25, 1909.
1910	October Moves to the house of Sunder Chetty on Rue de la Pavilion (Rue Suffren).
1910	November 7 "To My Countrymen" found not seditious by the Calcutta High Court; warrant withdrawn.
1910	November 7 Writes a letter to The Hindu, Madras (published in the November 13 issue), announcing his presence in Pondicherry and his retirement from active politics.
1911	April New lodgings taken on Rue St. Louis ("Raghavan House").
1911	July 20 A letter to The Hindu.
1911	August 15 First celebration of Sri Aurobindo's birthday in Pondicherry.
1912	July 3 Letter to Motilal Roy.
1912	Through his correspondence with Motilal and
1912	others Sri Aurobindo keeps in contact with the revolutionary movement in Bengal.
1912
1913	April Change of residence to Rue de Mission Etrangere (Mission Street).
1913	October Change of residence to Rue Francois Martin (the "Guest House")
1914	March 29 First meeting of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
1914	June 1 Decision to publish the Arya.
1914	August 15 First issue of the Arya. First instalments of The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga,
1914	The Secret of the Veda, The Isha Upanishad.
1915	Ahana and Other Poems published.
1915	February 21 First celebration of the Mother's birthday at Pondicherry.
1915	February 22 The Mother departs for France.
1915	September 15 First instalment of The Ideal ofHuman Unity in the Arya.
1915	October Vasavadutta, a dramatic romance, written.
1916	The Mother leaves France for Japan.
1916	August 15 First instalments of Essays on the Gita and The Psychology of Social Development (later called The Human Cycle) in the Arya.
1917	December 15 First instalment of The Future Poetry in the Arya.
1918	January 15 Works at translations from Kalidasa's Kumarasambhavam (The Birth of the War God).August 10 Letter on the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms published in the New India.
1918	December First instalment of "Is India Civilised?" (first of the series of essays that make up The Foundations of Indian Culture) published in the Arya.
1918	December 17 Death of Mrinalini Ghose in Calcutta.
1920	January 20 Letter to Joseph Baptista.
1920	April 7 Letter to Barindra Kumar Ghose.
1920	April 24 The Mother returns to Pondicherry from Japan.
1920	August 15 First issue of the Standard Bearer, a monthly published from Chandernagore under the inspiration of Sri Aurobindo; his article "Ourselves" appears in this issue.
1920	August 30 Letter to B.S. Munje declining the presidentship of the Nagpur Congress.
1920	November 24 The Mother moves to the house on Rue Francois Martin where Sri Aurobindo is living.
1921	Publication in book form of Isha Upanishad and Kalidasa's "Seasons".
1921	January Love and Death published.
1921	January 15 Last issue of the Arya.
1922	January The Mother takes charge of the management of Sri Aurobindo's household.
1922	Regular evening talks and group meditations held from this year.
1922	September-October Sri Aurobindo and the Mother move to 9, Rue de la Marine (south-west section of the present Ashram block).
1923	June 5 Meeting with C. R. Das.
1924	January The Century of Life published.
1924	Group meditation discontinued.
1925	Meeting with Lala Lajpat Rai and Purushottam Das Tandon.
1926	November 24 The Day of Siddhi (Victory Day):
1926	the descent of Krishna, the Overmind Godhead, into the physical.
1926	The evening talks and all other direct contacts ,with Sri Aurobindo are discontinued. He retires completely into concentrated sadhana, but gives "Darshan" three times a year.
1927	February 8 Sri Aurobindo and the Mother move to the house on Rue Francois Martin (north-east section of the present Ashram block) where they remain for the rest of their lives.
1928	Publication of The Mother.
1928	February 16 Meeting with Rabindranath Tagore.
1929	April Publication of Kalidasa.
1930-1938	The limited correspondence with disciples begun after Sri Aurobindo's retirement in 1926 assumes very large proportions during this period. Much of it has been collected and published as Letters on Yoga, Letters on the Mother, Letters on Poetry, Literature and Art,etc.
1930-1938	Throughout these years Sri Aurobindo works on his poetry, especially the epic Savitri.
1933	Publication of The Riddle of this World (extracts from letters).
1934	Publication of Six Poems of Sri Aurobindo.
1935	February Publication of Lights on Yoga (extracts from letters).
1936	April Publication of Bases of Yoga (extracts from letters).
1938	November 24 Accident to Sri Aurobindo's right leg.
1938	Regular correspondence with the sadhaks stopped. Personal contact with a few sadhaks, his attendants, begins.
1939	April 24 Gives Darshan for the first time on this day; later it becomes a regular Darshan day.
1939-1940	Revision and publication in book form of The Life Divine. More writing of poetry.
1940	September 19 Joint declaration by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in support of the Allies in World War II. From the time of the evacuation of Dunkirk Sri Aurobindo puts his spiritual force behind the Allied war effort.
1942	Publication of Collected Poems and Plays.
1942	March 31 Sri Aurobindo's support of the Proposals of Sir Stafford Cripps, emissary of the British government, which offered to India selfgovernment after the war and invited her assistance in the war effort.
1943	December 2 The Ashram school started.
1944	February 21 First issue of the Advent, "A Quarterly Dedicated to the Exposition of Sri Aurobindo's Vision of the Future".
1946	Hymns to the Mystic Fire published;
1947	August 15 Liberation of India on Sri Aurobindo's 75th birthday. A message from Sri Aurobindo is broadcast by the All India Radio.
1948	Publication of The Synthesis of Yoga, Part I.
1949	The Human Cycle published.
1949	February 21 First issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education (now called the Bulletin of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) with Sri Aurobindo's "Message".
1949	Seven more articles written by Sri Aurobindo appear in subsequent issues.
1949	First issue of the cultural review Mother India.
1950	Publication in book form of Part One of Savitri.
1950	December 5 Mahasamadhi: Sri Aurobindo withdraws from his body.
1950	December 9 Sri Aurobindo's body is placed in a vault in the courtyard of the Ashram.

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