| 1910 |
Born Aug. 27 as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
in Skopje, Yugoslavia, what is now Macedonia. Her father is
an Albanian builder. She's the youngest of three children. |
| 1928 |
Joined a religious order and took
the name Teresa. She came to India and taought at a convent
school in Calcutta, in state of west bangal. |
| 1937 |
Took her final vows |
| 1948 |
Left the convent to work alone
in the slums. Shr received medical training and education
in Paris. |
| 1950 |
Became citizen of India. The Missionaries
of charity started. |
| 1952 |
House for the dying opened |
| 1957 |
The Missionaries of Charity started
work with lepers and in many disaster areas of the world. |
| 1962 |
Wins her first prize for her humanitarian work: the Padma
Shri award for "distinguished service." Over the
years she uses the money from such prizes to found dozens
of new homes |
| 1971 |
Pope Paul VI honors Mother Teresa
by awarding her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. |
| 1979 |
Received Nobel Peace Prize on behalf
of the poor. |
| 1993 |
Breaks three ribs in fall in Rome
in May; hospitalized for malaria in August in New Delhi; undergoes
surgery to clear blocked blood vessel in Calcutta in September. |
| 1997 |
Died on 5th September in Calcutta, India. |
