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Rudyard Kipling
 
 
1865 - Kipling is born in Bombay, India.
 
1871 - Kipling and his younger sister Alice are separated from their parents and sent to England to be educated.
 
1878 - Kipling enters public school in North Devon. 
 
1882 - Kipling ends his formal education and returns to India to become a trainee journalist. 
 
1886 - Publication of Departmental Ditties. Kipling begins to make a name for himself as a young writer of some repute. 
 
1887 - Soldiers Three, In Black and White, The Phantom Rickshaw, Wee Willie Winkle, The Story of the Gadsbys, and the stories later collected in The Smith Administration, The City of Dreadful Night, and Letters of Marque, were all written and published. 
 
1889 - Kipling returns to London and embarks upon a decade of rising fame and extreme productivity. Kim, The Jungle Book, Stalky and Co., Captain’s Courageous , The Seven Seas and The Days Work are all published to great success. 
 
1891- Marries Caroline Balestrier and emigrates to the USA 
 
1899 - Death of first born child, Josephine, in New York. 
 
1900 - Begins sojourn in South Africa. Becomes leading proponent of the Boer War. 
 
1908 - Greatly disillusioned by the Liberal governments policy in South Africa, Kipling returns to England. 
 
1914 - World War one begins. Kipling believes his long-held suspicion of the Germans has been justified. He once more becomes an enthusiastic proponent of the British war effort. 
 
1915 - Kipling’s 18 year old son John disappears in battle. Kipling never really recovers from the loss. Kipling is diagnosed with the ailments that would later kill him. 
 
1935 - Something of Myself, Kipling’s sketchy collection of autobiographical writings is published. 
 
1936 - Rudyard Kipling dies.
 
 
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