C. G. Jung Chronology

1875	Carl Gustav Jung born on July 26 at Kesswil in Canton Thurgau, where his father, Johann Paul Achilles Jung, is parson. His mother is Emilie Jung, née Preiswerk.
1879	The family moves to Klein-Hüningen, near Basel.
1884	His sister, Gertrud, is born (dies in 1935).
1895	Jung begins medical studies at the University of Basel.
1896	His father, whose loss of religious faith the young Jung witnessed, dies.
1899	He decides to become a psychiatrist.
1900	Jung is appointed Assistant Staff Physician under Eugen Bleuler at the Burghölzli, the psychiatric hospital of the Canton of Zürich and psychiatric clinic of the University of Zürich.
1902	He attends Pierre Janet’s lectures on theoretical psychopathology at the Collège de France in Paris. His first professional articles are published.
1903	Jung marries Emma Rauschenberg of Schaffhausen. They have one son and four daughters.
1903	He begins experimental researches on word associations and is appointed senior staff physician at the Burghölzli.
1906	He begins his correspondence with Sigmund Freud.
1907	At their first meeting in Vienna, Jung and Freud talk without a break for 13 hours.
1908	Jung organizes the First Congress for Freudian Psychology in Salzburg.
1909	The Jungs move to their newly built home in Küsnacht by the lake of Zürich. Their descendants still live there. Jung withdraws from the Burghölzli clinic to concentrate on his thriving private practice. In September he visits the United States for the first time, with Freud, and both receive honorary degrees at Clark University in Massachusetts.
1910	Jung is appointed first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
1913	Jung cannot accept Freud’s dogma concerning infantile sexuality. They break off their relationship. Jung resigns from his professorship at the University of Zürich. He enters a long period of intense introversion, soul-searching, and confrontation with his unconscious, recorded first in the Black Books and then in the Liber Novus, the Red Book. This provides the foundation for all his subsequent work.
1916	The Psychological Club in Zürich is officially founded. Between 1913 and 1951 Jung gives fifty Lectures at the Club, presenting the first drafts of his new works.
1920	Jung travels to Algeria and Tunisia.
1921	Psychological Types is published and receives very favorable reviews.
1922–23	Jung purchases the land in Bollingen at the southern end of the Lake of Zürich, where construction of the first tower of his retreat at Bollingen is built. His mother dies.
1924	He visits the Pueblo Indians in Taos, New Mexico, and forms friendship with Chief Mountain Lake.
1925	Jung leads the first of many acclaimed Zürich Seminars in English, including Analytical Psychology, Dream Analysis, The Visions Seminars, The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, and Children’s Dreams.
1925–26	He undertakes an expedition to Kenya, Uganda, and the Nile. While with the Elgonyi tribe on Mt. Elgon, he is so inspired by the sight of gigantic herds of wild animals that he realizes that humans, through consciousness, are the second creators of the world.
1932	Jung begins 25-year collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli (1900–58), winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1945. He is awarded Literature Prize of the City of Zürich.
1933	The first annual Eranos conference at Ascona in Southern Switzerland includes distinguished scholars from all over the world. Jung lectures nearly every year until 1951. Among the participants are Joseph Campbell, Henry Corbin, Gershom Scholem, Karl Kerényi, Erich Neumann, and Mircea Eliade.
1933–41	Jung lectures on “Modern Psychology” at the Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute (ETH) in Zürich.
1935	He lectures at the Tavistock Clinic in London to about two hundred medical professionals from every “school” of psychotherapy. He is appointed Titular Professor at the ETH.
1936	Jung is awarded honorary doctorate from Harvard University.
1937	A large audience attends Jung’s Terry Lectures at Yale, published as Psychology and Religion. He defines religion as “the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been altered by the experience of the numinosum.”
1938	Jung receives an honorary doctorate from Oxford University and is appointed Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He describes as a “decisive moment” his trip to India to receive honorary degrees from the Universities of Benares, Allahabad, and Calcutta.
1944	He breaks his foot, suffers a heart attack, and experiences mystic visions while near death in hospital.
1945	In honor of his 70th birthday, the University of Geneva awards Jung an honorary doctorate.
1951	The publication of Answer to Job is so controversial that it engenders a series of key late letters concerning the evolution of the Western God image and the dark side of God. The first of the twenty volumes of the English-language edition of Jung’s Collected Works is published.
1955	In recognition of his 80th birthday, the ETH awards him an honorary doctorate. On November 27 his wife of 52 years, Emma Rauschenberg Jung, dies.
1957	Jung begins work on his memoirs, published posthumously in 1962. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is a best seller.
1959	John Freeman interviews Jung on the BBC television program “Face to Face.” To the question, “Do you now believe in God?” Jung answers, “Now? [Pause.] Difficult to answer. I know. I don’t need to believe, I know.”
1959	Jung dreams he is addressing a multitude of people in a public space, and they understand him. He conceives and edits Man and His Symbols, thereby completing his Introduction 10 days before his death.
1960	Jung is declared an honorary citizen of Küsnacht, his home for more than 50 years and where, after a short illness, he dies on June 6, 1961.
2009	Many decades after he wrote it, Jung’s original Red Book is meticulously photographed and a facsimile edition is published. It is an instant best seller, with more than 100,000 hardback copies in print worldwide.