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Swami Vivekananda Chronology
1863 | |||||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source | ||
12 January | Swami Vivekananda was born Narendranath Datta at 6:33 am, just after sunrise, at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee street, Shimla Pally, Kolkata, parent: father Vishwanath Datta, mother: Bhuvaneswari Datta. The day was Hindu festival Makarasamkranti |
| Banhatti p. xiii |
1871 | |||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source |
?? | Young Narendranath was enrolled at the Metropolitan Institution of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar | - | Banhatti p. xiii |
1877 | |||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source |
?? | Narendranath studied at Metropolitan Institution till 1877, then the Datta family moved to Raipur, Madhya Pradesh | - | Banhatti p. xiii |
1882 | ||||||
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End of 1881/Beginning of 1882 | Narendranath went to Dakshineswar with two friends and met Ramakrishna. This meeting proved to be a turning point in his life. |
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1884 | |||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source |
?? | Passed Bachelor of Arts Examination from Scottish Church College | - | - |
November | Death of Vishwanath Datta, Narendranath's father. | - | - |
1885 | |||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source |
?? | Ramakrishna's throat cancer and he was shifted to Calcutta and later to Cossipore. | - | - |
1886 | ||||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source | |
16 August | At night, death of Ramakrishna |
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19 October | First Ramakrishna Math was founded in a half-ruined house at Baranagar near the river Ganges | - | - | |
24 December | Took resolution with eight other disciples of Ramakrishna to become Sanyasi in Aantpur. | - | - |
1887 | |||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source |
January | Sanyasa at Baranagar Math, took the monastic name "Vividishananda" | - | - |
?? | Compiled a Bengali song anthology named Sangeet Kalpataru with Vaishnav Charan Basak | - | - |
1889 | |||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source |
December | Reached Vaidyanath, from there he went to Kashi. | - | - |
1891 | |||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source |
January | Set out for Delhi | - | - |
February | Arrived at Alwar, stayed for seven weeks | - | - |
?? | Jaipur, Ajmer and Mount Abu. At Mt. Abu, he met Ajit Singh of Khetri. | - | - |
1893 | |||||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source | ||
13 February | First public lecture, Secunderabad, South India | - | - | ||
31 May | Started his journey to the West from Bombay | - | - | ||
25 July | Landed at Vancouver, Canada | - | - | ||
30 July | Reached Chicago at 10:30 PM | - | - | ||
August | Joining Parliament of Worlds' Religions became uncertain. Went to Boston to cut off expenditure. | - | - | ||
9 September | Back to Chicago, lost all money, spent the night in a goods train. | - | - | ||
10 September | Tried to beg some money in the streets of Chicago. | - | - | ||
11–27 September | First lecture at the Parliament of the World's Religions, started his lecture with "Sisters and brothers of America", got 2 minutes' standing ovation. |
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15 September | Second lecture at the Parliament, told the story of a frog in the well. | - | - | ||
19 September | Third lecture at the Parliament. | - | - | ||
20 September | Fourth lecture at the Parliament. | - | - | ||
25 September | Fifth lecture at the Parliament. | - | - | ||
26 September | Final lecture at the last session of the Parliament. | - | - |
1896 | |||||
Date/Month | Event | Image | Source | ||
22-25 March | Gave lecture at Harvard University, offered Eastern Philosophy chair. | - | - | ||
15 April | Returned to London. |
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May-July | He went again to England. | - | - | ||
May-July | Classes in London. | - | - | ||
28 May | Met Friedrich Max Müller in Oxford | - | - | ||
August-September | In the Europe for six weeks. | - | - | ||
October-November | Began classes in London. | - | - | ||
30 December | Left Naples for India. | - | - |
Sources
We have studied the following books to prepare this chronology—- Badrinath, Chaturvedi (1 January 2006). Swami Vivekananda, the Living Vedanta. Penguin Books India. ISBN 978-0-14-306209-7
- Banhatti, Gopal Shrinivas (1 January 1995). Life And Philosophy Of Swami Vivekananda. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. ISBN 978-81-7156-291-6
- Chattopadhyaya, Rajagopal (1 January 1999). Swami Vivekananda in India: A Corrective Biography. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN 978-81-208-1586-5
- Paranjape, Makarand (13 December 2004). Penguin Swami Vivekananda Reader. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-81-8475-890-0.
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