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Don Bosco is born in I Becchi, Italy.
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Bosco’s father, Francis Bosco dies of Pneumonia.
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John meets Fr. Joseph Lacqua, his first teacher.
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In 1825, Bosco is nine, and has the first of a series of dreams which would play an influential role in his work and outlook.
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John makes his first communion on Easter Sunday. Mamma Margaret repeatedly tells him: “John, my son, God is going to give you a great gift. Try to prepare yourself to be worthy of him.”
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Bosco leaves home in February, 1828, at the age of twelve. After begging unsuccessfully for work, Bosco ends up at the wine farm of Louis Moglia.
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Don Bosco meets Fr. Joseph Calosso. Don Bosco begins to study Italian grammar and Latin.
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John stays in Chieri public school for ten years. The experience of living as a boarder not only allows him to develop his knowledge of different trades, but also prepares him psychologically for his future youth apostolate.
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John enters St. Philip's Seminary in Chieri. He begins his philosophical and theological studies.
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Oratory numbered 20 boys.
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John Bosco´s mother moves to the Oratory to help care for the boys.
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A boy named Michael Rua comes to the Oratory for the first time.
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Because of his long and serious illness, Don Bosco decides to stay at home for a while until his health recovers. When he returns to Turin, his mother Margaret comes with him and becomes mother to his boys.
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Don Bosco starts his second Oratory in Porta Nuova.
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Salesian Society is officially recognized.
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Dominic Savio is registered at the Oratory. He will be the first pupil of Don Bosco to be canonized.
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The first carpentry shop opens at the Oratory; the first two high school grades are introduced.
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Mamma Margaret dies in Valdocco Oratory in Turin.
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Michael Rua is the first of Don Bosco's students to be ordained as a priest.
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Don Bosco begins the construction of the Sanctuary of Our Lady Help of Christians in Valdocco.
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Don Bosco becomes very ill as he went to visit the Salesian Institute in Varazze.
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Don Bosco begins a female association to care for the education of girls. The new society of women is called, 'Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians', and is popularly known as the 'Salesian Sisters'.
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Don Bosco travels to Rome for the last time for the consecration of the Sacred Heart Basilica.
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Don Bosco dies at Turin, Italy.
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Don Bosco is canonized by Pope Pius XI on Easter Sunday.
