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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
1831 – 1891
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H
P Blavatsky
Brief
Life Chronology
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   1831  | 
  
   Born at  Russia at the Time of H P
  Blavatsky’s Birth  | 
 
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   1849  | 
  
   Married an older man, State Official Nikifor Vassilyevich Blavatsky  | 
 
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   1849/50  | 
  
   Left her husband and travelled in Turkey, Greece, Egypt and France  | 
 
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   1851  | 
  
   Met the man who was to her guru in   | 
 
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   1851  | 
  
   Sailed for Canada, travelled
  south to New Orleans, Mexico and South America  | 
 
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   1852  | 
  
   From the West Indies sailed via the
  Cape and Ceylon to India  | 
 
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   1852  | 
  
   Attempted unsuccessfully to enter
  Tibet  | 
 
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   1853  | 
  
   Travelled
  via Java to   | 
 
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   1854  | 
  
   Returned to   | 
 
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   1855  | 
  
   Returned to   | 
 
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   1856/57  | 
  
   Travelled
  throughout India, Kashmir, Ladakh, Burma, and parts of Tibet  | 
 
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   1858  | 
  
   Returned to   | 
 
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   1860/65  | 
  
   Lived with the native tribes in the
  Caucasus  | 
 
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   1866/67  | 
  
   Travelled
  in the Balkans,   | 
 
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   1867  | 
  
   Wounded at the   | 
 
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   1868  | 
  
   Returned to   | 
 
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   1871  | 
  
   Shipwrecked off the island of Spetsai sailing from Greece to Egypt  | 
 
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   1871/72  | 
  
   Lived in   | 
 
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   1872  | 
  
   Travelled
  through Syria, Palestine, the Lebanon, and back to Odessa  | 
 
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   1873  | 
  
   Lived in   | 
 
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   1873/78  | 
  
   Lived in the   | 
 
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   1875  | 
  
   Co-founder of The Theosophical
  Society  | 
 
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   1878  | 
  
   Became an American citizen  | 
 
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   1878/85  | 
  
   Lived in   | 
 
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   1885/87  | 
  
   Worked on 'The Secret Doctrine' in   | 
 
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   1887  | 
  
   Moved to   | 
 
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   1887  | 
  
   Founded The Blavatsky Lodge  | 
 
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   1888  | 
  
   Founded The Esoteric School  | 
 
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   1890  | 
  
   Established the European Headquarters
  of The Theosophical Society  | 
 
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   1891  | 
  
   Died in London; cremated at Woking Crematorium, Surrey  | 
 
  
Her Teachers Morya
& Koot Hoomi
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