| Year | Date | Event |
| 1902-08 | Protestant European School | |
| 1909-12 | Ravenshaw Collegiate School | |
| 1912 | Friendship with Hemanta Kumar Sarkar | |
| 1913 | Entered Presidency College for Arts course with Philosophy as major. Friendship with Dilip Kumar Roy | |
| 1914 | Summer vacation: Ran away from home | |
| 1916 | February | Rusticated from Presidency on the charge assaulting Professor Oaten with other students |
| 1917 | July | Granted permission by Calcutta University to resume studies |
| 1919 | 15 September | Left for England |
| 1919 | 20 October | Reached London |
| 1920 | August | ICS exam |
| 1921 | 22 April | Resignation from ICS |
| 1921 | July | Return to India |
| 1921 | Assigned by Das to work as the principal of the Bengal National College, organiser in the National Volunteer Corps and with the weekly Banglar Katha. Started publicity work for BPCC and met national leaders at a meeting in Calcutta | |
| 1921 | November | Hartal in Calcutta on account of visit by Prince of Wales |
| 1921 | December | Arrested, sentenced to 6 months in jail, along with CR Das. |
| 1922 | March | Gandhi sent to prison for 6 months |
| 1922 | August | Bose released from jail |
| 1922 | September | Chairman of the reception committee of the All Bengal Youngmen’s Conference; leads flood relief operations in North Bengal |
| 1923 | 1 January | Swarajya Party formed by CR Das |
| 1923 | Became secretary, BPCC; publication of Forward starts; Bose also managed Atma Sakti, a more radical paper; starts attending AICC meetings in other parts of India. | |
| 1923 | CR Das’s Bengal Pact with Muslim leaders. Subhas & Sarat support. | |
| 1924 | Calcutta Municipal Corporation elections; Das elected Mayor; Sarat alderman, Subhas CEO | |
| 1924 | Did not attend the Bengal Provincial Conference at Sirajgunje (presided by Das) | |
| 1924 | 25 October | Arrested under Regulation III of 1818; held in Calcutta jail during the first six weeks; sent to Berhampore jail in first week of December |
| 1925 | January | Sent to Mandalay towards the end of January |
| 1925 | 16 June | Death of CR Das |
| 1927 | Government appoints the Indian Statutory Commission under John Simon | |
| 1927 | February | Subhas brought to the Rangoon Central Jail |
| 1927 | May | Released |
| 1927 | June-October | In Shillong |
| 1927 | November | Elected president of BPCC; invited to become a member of Motilal Nehru’s Committee which was drawing up the ‘swaraj constitution.’ |
| 1927 | December | Congress session in Madras; Subhas could not attend; Appointed general secretary for 1928 along with Nehru. Nehru’s (back from a year and a half of Europe trip) resolution for complete independence passed |
| 1928 | Defeated by BK Basu in the mayoral election of Calcutta | |
| 1928 | 3 February | Simon Commission lands in Bombay |
| 1928 | April & May | Nagpur, Bombay and Poona tour |
| 1928 | August | Nehru Committee Report issued |
| 1928 | December | Calcutta Congress (member of Reception Committee); All Parties Convention meets in Calcutta; meeting of All India Youth Congress (chairman of reception committee); Rashtra Bhasa Sammelan (chairman of reception committee) |
| 1929 | Subhas and Nehru nominated general secretaries of the Congress; Subhas becomes member of the Working Committee; elected as councillor in the Calcutta Corporation; president of Hindustani Seva Dal; All Bengal Students’ Association split – Bose & Jugantar faction formed Bengal Provincial Students’ Association (BPSA); Sengupta & Anushilan faction remained All Bengal Students Association (ABSA) | |
| 1929 | Compiled a booklet - Boycott of British Goods | |
| 1929 | April | Bombing of Legislative Assembly by Bhagat Singh |
| 1929 | 13 September | Death of Jatin Das |
| 1929 | October | Visited Meerut Conspiracy Case accused; first tour of Punjab; presided over the Punjab Provincial Students’ Conference; tours Lahore, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Meerut & Delhi. Lord Irwin issued statement that “the natural issue of India’s Constitutional progress…is the attainment of Dominion Status.” Subhas and Kitchlew issued statement opposing Viceroy and Congress leadership. Bose resigns from CWC but withdraws, persuaded by Gandhi and Motilal. |
| 1929 | Motilal sends Pattabhi Sitaramayya to resolve conflict in Bengal Congress. Bose again offers to resign from CWC, but withdraws due to mediation by BC Roy. | |
| 1929 | December | Lahore Congress; Subhas moves resolution for setting up a parallel government – defeated; dropped from Working Committee; Jawaharlal becomes president for another year |
| 1929 | December | Became president of AITUC; AITUC split, with the breakaway members forming the Indian Trade Union Federation (later National Trade Union Federation) |
| 1930 | January | Sent to jail for a year; later sentence reduced to nine months |
| 1930 | 18 April | Chittagong armoury raid |
| 1930 | 22 April | Subhas assaulted in jail |
| 1930 | 22 August | Elected to the Calcutta Corporation |
| 1930 | 23 September | Released from prison; took oath as mayor on 24 September |
| 1930 | 8 December | Writers’ Building attack by Binoy Bose, Badal Gupta and Dinesh Gupta |
| 1931 | January | Attended political prisoners’ conference, Berhampore. |
| 1931 | January | Subhas imprisoned for seven days during Maldah visit |
| 1931 | 26 January | Subhas takes out procession to mark Independence Day in Calcutta. Stopped and beaten up by police |
| 1931 | 27 January | Sentenced to six months’ imprisonment (released in March) |
| 1931 | 5 March | Gandhi-Irwin pact. Subhas opposes. |
| 1931 | 15-17 March | Subhas meets Gandhi in Bombay |
| 1931 | 23 March | Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru hanged |
| 1931 | March | Karachi Congress. Subhas reaches Karachi via Lahore. Sengupta in Working Committee, not Subhas |
| 1931 | 27 March | Speech at Naujawan Bharat Sabha |
| 1931 | 8 April | Speech at Amritsar addressing the Sikh League |
| 1931 | July | Communists split AITUC (Subhas still president) |
| 1931 | 16 September | Hijli prison killings |
| 1931 | 18 September | Subhas resigns as BPCC president and alderman of Calcutta Corporation |
| 1931 | 11 November | Arrested for violating Section 144, trying to enter Dhaka. Released on 14 November. |
| 1931 | 23 December | Attends Maharashtra Youth Conference in Poona |
| 1931 | 28 December | Gandhi lands in Bombay on his return from Roundtable Conference & Europe tour |
| 1931 | 29 December | Subhas-Gandhi meeting |
| 1932 | 3 January | Subhas arrested on train at Kalyan under Regulation III of 1818; imprisoned in Seoni sub-jail in the Central Provinces; Sarat joins him in February |
| 1932 | 4 January | Congress announces Civil Disobedience |
| 1932 | May | Bose brothers shifted to Jubbulpore Central Jail |
| 1932 | July | Subhas shifted to Madras; moved to Bhowali Sanatorium in northern India |
| 1932 | 17 August | Government issues communal award; Madan Mohan Malaviya forms Congress Nationalist Party |
| 1932 | December | Shifted to Lucknow |
| 1933 | 23 February | Sails from Bombay by SS Gange for Europe |
| 1933 | 6 March | Arrives in Venice; moves to Vienna |
| 1933 | May | Gandhi terminates Civil Disobedience movement; Bose-Patel Manifesto |
| 1933 | 10 June | Bose’s presidential speech read out at the Third Indian Political Conference in London |
| 1933 | 29 June | Travels to Prague from Vienna |
| 1933 | 7 July | Arrives in Warsaw |
| 1933 | 17 July | Leaves for Berlin |
| 1933 | Late August | From Berlin to Franzensbad (Czech Republic) |
| 1933 | September | To Geneva to attend a conference organised by International Committee for India on 19 September. Vithalbhai Patel moved to a sanatorium in Gland (near Geneva) – Subhas stays to take care of Patel. |
| 1933 | 22 October | Death of Vithalbhai Patel |
| 1933 | 25 October | Subhas brings Patel’s body from Gland to Marseilles. Returns to Geneva |
| 1933 | Mid-November to End of December | Stay at Nice |
| 1933 | Last week of December | Arrives in Rome. Oriental Institute inaugurated by Mussolini. Bose addresses Congress of Oriental Students in Europe and presides over a conference of Indian students in Europe. |
| 1934 | January | Moves to Milan |
| 1934 | February | In Geneva |
| 1934 | 20 March | Leaves Geneva for Munich, making a halt at Zurich |
| 1934 | 23 March | In Prague for inauguration of the Indian Society. From Prague to Berlin |
| 1934 | 28 March | Raises the issue of racism and anti-Indian attitude in Germany with the Foreign Office |
| 1934 | 5 April | Memorandum to German Foreign Office |
| 1934 | 17 April | Arrives in Vienna. |
| 1934 | 26-30 April | Visits Rome to meet Mussolini. |
| 1934 | 3 May | Founded the Indian-Central European Association in Vienna |
| 1934 | May-mid June | Visits Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb and returns to Vienna |
| 1934 | 26 November | Receives cable from mother about father’s illness |
| 1934 | 29 November | Takes flight from Vienna to Rome. Takes flight next day. |
| 3 December | Death of father Janakinath. Bose reaches Karachi on the same day. | |
| 1934 | 4 December | Reaches Calcutta. Put under home internment. |
| 1935 | January | Leaves for Europe, reaches Naples on 20 January. Moves to Rome. Meets Mussolini, Litvinoff and Amanullah. To Vienna. The Indian Struggle published and banned in India. |
| 1935 | March | In Switzerland; meets Romain Rolland |
| 1935 | 24 April | Gall bladder, in Vienna. Three weeks at the sanatorium post-operation. |
| 1935 | June | Kamala Nehru in Vienna for treatment, accompanied by Indira |
| 1935 | 16 June | In Karlsbad |
| 1935 | 8 September | Arrives in Badenweiler to be with Jawaharlal Nehru (who arrived on the same day) and Kamala Nehru |
| 1935 | 18 September | To Badgastein |
| 1936 | January | To Prague and then to Berlin; to Cologne, Brussels and Antwerp; on to Paris for a few days; to Ireland – three meetings with de Valera; to Paris again (meeting Andre Gide and Andre Malraux) |
| 1936 | 28 February | Death of Kamala Nehru in Lausanne. Bose present. |
| 1936 | 3 March | In Badgastein |
| 1936 | 17 March | Speech at conference of League against Imperialism |
| 1936 | 27 March | Sails from Italy by SS Cante Verde to India |
| 1936 | 8 April | Reaches Bombay, arrested immediately (taken to Bombay then Pune jails) |
| 1936 | 10 May | All India Subhas Day, called by Nehru |
| 1936 | May | Detained in Sarat Bose’s house in Kurseong till end of the year; period of regular communication between Subhas and Emilie (between August 1936 and October 1937) |
| 1936 | 17 December | Moved to Calcutta Medical College hospital |
| 1937 | 17 March | Released |
| 1937 | 6 April | All Bengal Subhas Day |
| 1937 | May | At Dalhousie with the Dharamvirs for the next five months |
| 1937 | October | Back to Calcutta |
| 1937 | 27 October | Rally of Kisan Sabha in Shraddhananda Park |
| 1937 | October-November | AICC and Working Committee meetings in Calcutta; took his seat as an alderman on the Calcutta Corporation |
| 1937 | 18 November | Left for Europe (Naples airport) on a KLM plane; from Naples to Badgastein by train |
| 1938 | January | Trip to England |
| 1938 | 11 January | Speech at reception at Saint Pancras Town Hall, presided over by Rajani Palme Dutt |
| 1938 | 16 January | Met de Valera |
| 1938 | 17 January | Met Lord Zetland; met Lord Halifax, Clement Attlee, George Lansbury, Arthur Greenwood, Harold Laski, JBS Haldane, Ivor Jennings |
| 1938 | 18 January | Met GDH Cole, Gulbert Murray, Stafford Cripps; JB Kripalani announces presidentship for Subhas |
| 1938 | 19 January | Leaves Croyden for India, by air; stopped in Prague to meet President Benes; flew to Naples; stops over at Karachi |
| 1938 | 24 January | Reaches Calcutta |
| 1938 | 29 January | Bengal Provincial Conference in Bishnupur |
| 1938 | 31 January | Elected president of BPCC |
| 1938 | 3 February | Working Committee meeting at Wardha |
| 1938 | 11 February | Starts for Haripura, by train |
| 1938 | 19-22 February | Haripura Congress |
| 1938 | 25 June | Resigns from Aldermanship of the Corporation |
| 1938 | September | AICC meeting in Delhi |
| 1938 | October | Meeting of the industries ministers of Congress-ruled provinces |
| 1938 | December | First meeting of Planning Committee, chaired by Nehru |
| 1939 | 29 January | Re-elected as Congress president |
| 1939 | 15 February | Meets Gandhi |
| 1939 | 22 February | Working Committee members resign |
| 1939 | 10 March | Tripuri Congress |
| 1939 | 29 April | AICC meets in Calcutta |
| 1939 | 3 May | Announces formation of Forward Bloc |
| 1939 | June | First Conference of All India Forward Bloc in Bombay; AICC meeting |
| 1939 | 9 July | Demonstrations against AICC resolutions |
| 1939 | July (dates?) | Disqualified as president of BPCC and barred from any elective Congress committee for three years from August; BPCC re-elects Subhas, defying Congress HQ; BPCC dismissed, new ad hoc committee under Maulana Azad. |
| 1939 | 9 September | Working Committee meeting at Wardha; Subhas special invitee; asked to discuss war situation with Viceroy |
| 1939 | 10 October | Meets Linlithgow |
| 1940 | 20 January | All India Students’ Conference |
| 1940 | 19 March | Ramgarh Conference |
| 1940 | 18 June | Second Conference of Forward Bloc |
| 1940 | 29 June | Announces Holwell monument movement for 3 July |
| 1940 | 2 July | Arrested under Defence of India Act |
| 1940 | 26 November | Writes to Government about hunger strike from 29 November |
| 1940 | 5 December | Detention order lifted |
| 1941 | 16-17 January | Leaves India |