Paramhansa Yogananda - Chronology of his life

Following are some important dates and events
in the life of Yogananda:

1861	Lahiri Mahasaya learns the lost science of Kriya yoga from Mahavatar Babaji on Drongiri mountain.
1893	Birth of Paramhansa Yogananda at Gorakhpur, India. He is baptized by Lahiri Mahasaya.
1894	Swami Sri Yukteswar meets Babaji at the Kumbha Mela in Allahabad.
1915	Sri Yukteswar initiates Yogananda into the Giri order of swamis, founded by Shankara in the 8th century.
1917	Yogananda establishes his first ashram, in Calcutta, India.
1920	Yogananda travels to America to bring the science of Kriya yoga.
1925	He lectures in major American cities to standing room-only audiences. Yogananda establishes a center in Los Angeles.
1926	Yogananda leads a bhajan (chant) for 1 ½ hours at capacity-filled Carnegie hall in N.Y.C.
1935	Returns to India for a final pilgrimmage. Sri Yukteswar enters mahasamadhi (leaves his body) after their last meeting.
1936	On the way home to America he travels and teaches in Europe.
1946	Publication of “autobiography of a yogi.”
1948	The day after reading the autobiography, j. Donald Walters travels to California to take discipleship with Yogananda.
1952	Yogananda enters mahasamadhi in Los Angeles.
1955	Walters is initiated as swami “Kriyananda,” in the Giri swami order of Shankara.
1968	Kriyananda establishes Ananda village in California, based on Yogananda’s instructions to him.