Chronology

1865

Rudyard Kipling born on December 30 in Bombay, son of Alice and John Lockwood Kipling.

1871-77

Spends this unhappy period as a boarder at the "House of Desolation" in Southsea.

1878-82

Attends United Services College.

1882-87

Reporter for The Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore.

1886

Departmental Ditties.

1887-89

On the staff of The Pioneer, Allahabad.

1888

Plain Tales from the Hills published, followed by the other Indian Railways Series titles: Soldiers Three, The

Story of the Gadsby's, In Black and White, Wee Willie Winkie, The Phantom Rickshaw, Under the Deodars.

1889

Returns to London via Japan and America. Sea to Sea.

1890

Indian Railway Series reprinted. The Light That Failed.

1891

Life's Handicap. Voyage to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and, for the last time, India.

1892

Marriage to Caroline Balestier. The Naulahka. Bar rack-Room Ballads. Honeymoon journey through

Canada to Japan.Returns to his wife's home in Brat tleboro, Vermont.

1893

Many Inventions.

1894

The Jungle Book.

1895

The Second Jungle Book.

1896

The Seven Seas, poems. Kipling quarrels with his brother-in-law (who was also his agent), and he and

his wife leave Vermont for England.

1897

Captains Courageous. Settles in Rottingdean.

1898

The Day's Work.

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