| Date | Event (Tibetan Calendar Date) |
| December 17, 1933 | Thirteenth Dalai Lama Passes Away in Lhasa at the age of 57 (Water-Bird Year, 10th month, 30th day) |
| July 6, 1935 | Born in Taktser, Amdo, Tibet (Wood-Pig Year, 5th month, 5th day) |
| July 1939 | Departs Amdo for three-month journey to Lhasa |
1939 | Public Declaration of the Official Recognition of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama near town of Bumchen |
| October 8, 1939 | Enters Lhasa after three-month journey from Amdo (Earth-Hare Year, 8th month, 25th day) |
| February. 22, 1940 | Enthronement Ceremony (Iron-Dragon Year, 1st month, 14th day) |
| 1940 | Begins monastic education at the age of five |
| 1942 | Receives Vows of Novice Monk from Taktra Rinpoche (1st month, 10th day) |
| November 17, 1950 | Assumes full temporal (political) power after China's invasion of Tibet in 1949 (Iron-Tiger Year, 10th month, 11th day) |
| December 16, 1950 | Departs Lhasa for Dromo because of Chinese threat |
| January 1951 to July 1951 | Resides in Dromo (Yatung) |
| May 23, 1951 | 17-Point Agreement signed by Tibetan delegation in Peking under duress |
| July 16, 1951 | Chinesedelegation led by General Chiang Chin-wu, newly appointed Commissionerand Administrator of Civil and Military Affairs of Tibet, meets withHis Holiness in Dromo (Yatung) |
| July 24, 1951 | Departs Dromo (Yatung) for Lhasa (Iron-Hare Year, 5th month, 17th day) |
| August 17, 1951 | Arrives Lhasa from Dromo (Iron-Hare Year, 6th month, 13th day) |
| 1954 | Receives Gelong Ordination from Ling Rinpoche (Wood-Horse Year, 1st month, 15th day) |
1954 | Confers 1st Kalachakra Initiation in Norbulingka Palace, Lhasa. |
| July 1954 to June 1955 | VisitsChina for peace talks and meets with Mao Zedong and other Chineseleaders, including Chou En-Lai, Chu Teh and Deng Xiaoping |
| November 1956 to March 1957 | Visits India to participate in 2500th Buddha Jayanti celebrations |
| February 1959 | Receives Geshe Lharampa Degree during Monlam Ceremonies in Lhasa (Earth-Pig Year, 1st month, 13th day) |
March 10, 1959 | Tens of thousands of Tibetans gathered in front of NorbulingkaPalace, Lhasa to prevent His Holiness from going to a performance atthe Chinese Army Camp in Lhasa. Tibetan People's Uprising begins inLhasa |
March 15, 1959 | Artillery Shells fired from Chinese trops land outside Norbulingka Palace |
| March 17, 1959 | Escapes at night from Norbulingka Palace in Lhasa |
March 1959 | Tibetan Government formally reestablished at Lhudup Dzong. 17-Point Agreeement formally repudiated by Tibetan Government. |
| March 30, 1959 | Enters India from Tibet after a 14-day harrowing escape |
April 18, 1959 | Hold international press conference and formally repudiates the 17-Point Agreement. |
| April 20, 1959 | Arrives Mussoorie and resides at Birla House |
| April 30, 1960 | Arrives in Dharamsala to take up residence at Swarg Ashram |
| 1963 | Presents a draft democratic constitution for Tibet. Firstexile Tibetan Parliament (assembly of Tibetan People�s Deputies)established in Dharamsala. |
| 1967 | First visits abroad (since coming into exile) to Japan and Thailand |
| 1968 | Moves residence from Swarg Ashram to present day Thekchen Choeling (Byrne Estate) |
| September to November 1973 | Firstvisit to the West (Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium,Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, UK, West Germany & Austria) |
1979 | First contact with the Government of the People�s Republic of China established since coming into exile in 1959. |
| September 21, 1987 | Delivers historic Five Point Peace Plan for Tibet in Washington, D.C. to members of the U.S. Congress |
| June 1988 | Delivers historic Strasbourg Proposal for Tibet in Strasbourg, France to members of the European Parliament |
| December 10, 1989 | Awarded Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo, Norway |
1992 | Initiates a number of additional major democratic steps, includingthe direct elections of Kalons (Ministers) by the Assembly of TibetanPeople�s Deputies and the establishment of a judiciary branch. Previously Kalons appointed directly by His Holiness. |
2001 | First direct democratic elections held by the Tibetan people forthe post of Kalon Tripa (senior Minister) in the history of Tibet. |
