Aug 27, 1910 - Born as Agnes Gionxhu Bejuxhiu ans in Skopje in the former Yugoslavia

1928 - Becomes Roman Catholic Loretto nun and begins noviate training in Loretto Abbey, Dublin, Ireland, takes name Sister Teresa

1929 - Arrives in Calcutta, India, becomes a teacher at St. Mary's High School

1937 - Takes final vows as a nun

1948 - Permitted to leave order and moves to slums to start school

1948 - Transfers her citizenship from Yugoslavia to India. Left the convent to

work alone in the slums. Receives medical training in Paris

1950 - Founds the Missionaries of Charity

1952 - Opens Nirmal Hriday ("Pure Heart"), home for the dying

1953 - Opens orphanage

1957 - Begins her work with lepers for which her order becomes well known around the world

1958 - Order's first facility outside of Calcutta opens in Drachi, India

1962 - Wins first prize for work among the poor: Padma Shri award

1965 - The Catholic Church grants the order permission to organize missions outside of India

1971 - Receives the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and uses the $25,000 to build a leper colony

1979 - Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for work with destitute and dying

1982 - Persuades the Israelis and Palestinians to cease fire long enough to rescue 37 retarded children from Beirut

1983 - Has heart attack while visiting Pope John Paul II

1985 - Awarded ‘Medal of Freedom’

1989 - Suffers second heart attack, fitted with pacemaker

1990 - Re-elected superior general of her order of the Missionaries for Charity, despite her wish to step down

1992 - Enters the hospital in La Jolla, California for treatment of pneumonia and

congestive heart failure

1993 - Falls and breaks three ribs in May, hospitalized for malaria in August, undergoes surgery for blocked blood vessel in September

1996 - Falls and breaks collarbone in April, suffers malarial fever and left ventricle failure in August, receives honorary citizenship on November sixteenth

March 13, 1997 - Steps down as the head of her order, is succeeded by Sister Nirmala.

September 5, 1997 - Dies of a massive heart attack in Calcutta at the age of 87