Nikola Bojaxhiu (father) and his bride, Drana(mother), move to Skopje in Macedonia; Nikolastarts a prosperous construction business and moveshis wife to a home near the Vardar River.
Aga Bojaxhiu, sister, is born.
Lazar Bojaxhiu, brother, is born.
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) is born.
The Balkan Wars end; Macedonia is divided between Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria.
Nikola Bojaxhiu dies of suspicious causes.
Gonxha first becomes interested in mission work,particularly in India.
Leaves home to join the Loreto Sisters; she travelsto the convent at Rathfarnham near Dublin, Ireland.
Gonxha is sent to India to begin her novitiate inDarjeeling.
After two years as a novice, Gonxha takes her firstvows; she takes the name Teresa.
Sister Teresa takes her final vows in Loreto School,Darjeeling, India.
Begins teaching geography at St. Mary’s HighSchool in Calcutta till 1948, where she will also serve asprincipal of the school.
Inspiration Day; while riding a train, Sister Teresareceives her call to help serve the poorest of thepoor.
India becomes free from British rule; three nationsare formed as a result of Indian independence:India, Pakistan, and Ceylon.
Sister Teresa requests permission to leave theLoreto Order to live alone and work with the poorin Calcutta; her first act is to open a school in theslum of Motijhil; on April 12, she receives permission from Pope Pius XII to remain a nun who willreport dir
Moves in with the Gomes family at 14 Creek Lanein February; in March, Subashni Das, a young Bengali girl, becomes the first to join Mother Teresa.
The new congregation of the Missionaries of Charity is approved.
Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charitymove to their new motherhouse located at 54ALower Circular Road; in August, Mother Teresaopens Nirmal Hriday, the first home for the dying,next to the temple at Kalighat.
The first group of Missionaries of Charity take theirfirst vows; Shishu Bhavan, the first home for abandoned and handicapped children, is opened.
Mother Teresa begins working with lepers of Calcutta.
The first houses outside of Calcutta are opened.
Mother Teresa travels outside of India for the firsttime since coming there in 1929.
The Missionaries of Charity Brothers is established.
Shantinagar, the Place of Peace for Lepers, isopened.
The International Association of Co-Workers ofMother Teresa becomes officially affiliated with theMissionaries of Charity.
Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Suffers heart attack while visiting in Rome.
Receives Medal of Freedom from the UnitedStates, the highest civilian award given.
The Missionaries of Charity establish hospices forpeople with AIDS.
Suffers second heart attack; doctors implant pacemaker.
Prepares to step down as head of Missionaries ofCharity because of poor health; she is re-electedwith one dissenting vote—her own.
Documentary film Hell’s Angel is broadcast on theBBC Channel Four.
Granted honorary American citizenship.
Sister Nirmala elected to succeed Mother Teresa asleader of Missionaries of Charity; Mother Teresadies after having a heart attack at the Motherhousein Calcutta.
