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563 BCE
Birth
He was born in Lumbini. Before he was born his mother had a dream where an elephant with a lotus in its trunk came down and touched her tummy. -
553 BCE
Enlightenment
He sat under a bodh tree for 49 years and in the 50th year became enlightened and left from that place. -
553 BCE
Discovery of the Middle Way
He saw that you must be in the middle of complete self-denial and complete self-indulgence. -
548 BCE
Marriage
At age sixteen he was married to Yaśodharā -
534 BCE
Leaves the palace
He left the palace for the first time and encountered four sights first sight he saw was an old person, the second was a sickly person, the third he saw people carrying the dead and the final sight he saw was a monk meditating -
533 BCE
Renunciation
This was when he left his life as a prince he gave up his wife and child to find enlightenment -
528 BCE
First sermon
He gave his first sermon to the five ascetics that left him earlier. -
483 BCE
Death
He died 45 years after he became enlightened and at Kuśinagara