Rudyard Kipling

By Icedragon201213

  • Rudyard Kipling is born

    Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (Mumbai), India.
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    Rudyard Kipling's Lifetime

  • Rudyard is sent to live in England

    At the age of six, Ruddy (Rudyard's childhood nickname) is sent to live in a foster home in England so he can attend school.

  • His mother takes him on a vacation

    Rudyard is on the verge of having a nervous breakdown because of his foster parent, his mother takes him on an extended vacation to help calm him down.

  • Rudyard enrolls in the school Westward Ho

    A school for military boys, Rudyard discovers his talent for writing here.

  • Rudyard comes home to get a job in India

    His father got him a job with the local newspaper.

  • Kipling returns to England

    He wants to publish his works and seek out more opportunities.

  • Kipling meets Wolcott Balestier

    Balestier is a publisher that helped Kipling publish some of his works.

  • Wolcott dies of typhod fever

    Kipling recieved an urgent telegram from Wolcott's sister, and Rudyard hurriedly returned to England.

  • Kipling and Carrie are married

    Carrie Balestier was Wolcott's sister.

  • They find a house in Vemont

    The Kiplings settled down after their honeymoon because their bank had failed.

  • Kipling publishes "Barrack-Room Ballads"

    This contained some poems that made him very famous.

  • Kipling and Carrie welcome Josephine into the family

  • Elsie Kipling is born

  • The Kiplings return to England

    They return because of a dispute Kipling had with his publisher, which went public and greatly embarrassed him.

  • John Kipling is born

  • Kiplings go on a holiday in South Africa

    This becomes a regular thing for them to do.

  • Josephine dies of pneumonia

    Both Kipling and Josephine caught it, but only Josephine died.

  • Just So Stories is published

    This set of stories was inspired by Josephine, who told her father to tell the stories "Just So"

  • Kipling is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

  • Rewards and Fairies is published.

    This set of poems included the very famous poem known as "If-"

  • John goes missing in France

    The Kipling's only son goes missing in France and they are devastated

  • Kipling dies of a painful ulcer.

    Kipling has led a long and sucessful life up to this point.