Landmark events in the life of Mother Teresa who was declared a saint by Pope Francis at the Vatican on Sunday:
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1910: Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, present-day Macedonia, on August 26; Baptised on August 27
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1922-1923: At age 12, feels first call to religious life
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1928: Leaves home on Sep 25 to become a Roman Catholic Loreto nun and begins novitiate training in Dublin. Takes the name Sister Teresa
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1929: Arrives in Kolkata, becomes a teacher at St Mary's School
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1931: Takes her first vows as a nun
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1937: Takes final vows as a nun, becomes known as Mother Teresa
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1946: On a train to Darjeeling on Sep 10, receives "the call within the call" to serve the poor
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1948: Starts teaching poor children, opens her first slum school; Shifts to 14, Creek Lane
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1950: Founds the Missionaries of Charity on Oct 7 with 12 sisters after getting the green signal from the Vatican
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1951: Receives Indian Citizenship
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1952: Opens first home for dying at Kalighat in South Kolkata. Names it Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart)
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1953: Leaves Creek Lane and shifts to a two-storeyed building on Lower Circular Road; it's now called Mother House, the global headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity
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1957: Begins her work with lepers for which her Order becomes well known around the world
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1962: Receives Padma Shri from the President for her humanitarian work
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1963: Founds Missionaries of Charity, Brothers
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1965: Catholic Church grants permission for setting up missions outside India; the first opens that year in Venezuela
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1971: Receives Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and uses money to build a leper colony
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1976: Founds Missionaries of Charity, Contemplative Sisters
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1979: Receives Nobel Peace Prize for work with the destitute and dying
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1980: Conferred India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna
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1982: Rescues 37 mentally disabled children from a hospital in besieged Beirut
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1983: Visits Pope John Paul II. Hospitalized with heart attack, first of several
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1984: Founds Missionaries of Charity Fathers
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1985: Awarded Medal of Freedom, highest US civilian honour
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1990: Resigns as superior general of the Missionaries of Charity but is re-elected
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1997: Steps down as head of her order
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1997: Dies of heart failure in Kolkata on Sep 5, aged 87
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2003: Beatified by Pope John Paul II -- placing her a step from sainthood
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2016: Declared a saint by Pope Francis on Sep 4
