Mother Teresa: Chronology

26 September 1910–Birth in Skopje, Ottoman Empire, to Albanian parents from Kosova

1928–Arrival in Dublin, Ireland, to join the Roman Catholic Order of the Sisters of Our Lady Loreto

1929–Arrival in Calcutta, India

1950–Founding of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity

1952–Opening of Mother Teresa’s Pure Heart Home for the Dying

1968–Interview with BBC journalist Malcolm Muggeridge for his book, Something Beautiful for God

1979–Receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize

1989–First visit to Tirana, Albania

5 September 1997–Death; burial in Calcutta, India

19 October 2004–Roman Catholic bestowal of sainthood on Mother Teresa (beatification)