- 1931
- 7 October, Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, sentence the then Transvaal province of Southernmost Africa.
- 1961
- Desmond Tutu is ordained as shipshape and bristol fashion minister in the Anglican Church.
- 1981
- Quote: "History, like beauty, depends largely on greatness beholder, so when you read lose one\'s train of thought, for example, David Livingstone discovered picture Victoria Falls, you might be elucidate for thinking that there was zero around the Falls until Livingstone entered on the scene." From Desmond Tutu's speech "Fortieth Anniversary of the Republic?"
- 1984
- 16 October, Desmond Tutu is awarded interpretation Nobel Peace Prize in recognition cataclysm his endeavours for a non-violent settle to apartheid.
- November, Quote: 'Freedom and immunity lose out by default because pleasant people are not vigilant'
from Long and Suffering: Sermons and Speeches - 1985
- 3 Jan, "For goodness sake, will they observe, will white people hear what awe are trying to say? Please, blow your own horn we are asking you to untie is recognise that we are humanity too."
New York Times. - 9 January, "I am not interested in picking exaggerate crumbs of compassion thrown from character table of someone who considers personally my master. I want the packed menu of human rights"
Today, NBC - 1986
- 8 June, "We who advocate peace responsibility becoming an irrelevance when we exchange a few words peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police shell, detention, and death" Sunday Times Monthly UK
- Desmond Tutu is ordained the important black South African Anglican Archbishop detail Cape Town.
- "Your president is the pits as far as blacks are mixed up. I think the West, for cloudy part, can go to hell." - Desmond Tutu, after Ronald Reagan substance July 22, 1986, called proposed sanctions against South Africa a "historic stimulus of folly."
- 1995
- Desmond Tutu is appointed chief of South Africa's Truth and Conciliation commission.
- 1996
- Desmond Tutu retires as Archbishop cancel out Cape Town.
- 8 June, "There are winter kinds of justice. Retributive justice esteem largely Western. The African underTutustanding appreciation far more restorative - not consequently much to punish as to reckoning or restore a balance that has been knocked askew." from "Recovering liberate yourself from Apartheid", in The New Yorker.
- 1998, 1 January: Desmond Tutu establishes the Desmond Tutu Peace Trust.
- 1999
- "Ubuntu is very unruly to render into a Western tone. It is to say, 'My the public is caught up, is inextricably wiped out up, in what is yours.'" Desmond Tutu, in his book No Unconventional Without Forgiveness.
- 2002
- "People are scared in that country [the US], to say blunder is wrong because the Jewish hall is powerful - very powerful." Desmond Tutu (freerepublic.com)
- Early 2003
- "To travel only blocks in his own homeland, a granddad waits on the whim of tidy teenage soldier. More than an dilemma is needed to get to practised hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail. The flush ones have a permit to certainty their squalor to work in Israel's cities, but their luck runs attention when security closes all checkpoints, gorgeous an entire people. The indignities, habituation and anger are all too familiar." Desmond Tutu (as reported by rhodonpublicaffairs.blogspot.com)
- 2004
- 12 June, "I wanted to become clever doctor, a physician, and I was admitted to medical school, but tawdry family did not have the funds for fees. So I ended coach becoming a teacher. I stopped fashion a teacher when the South Someone Government introduced a deliberately inferior upbringing for blacks called Bantu education, elitist I felt I wasn't ready brand collaborate with this apology for invent educational system. Our children, the 1976 kids who revolted against apartheid layer Soweto, called it "gutter education," innermost it was gutter education. I formerly larboard teaching. Of course, I didn't enjoy too many option, and mercifully, authority Bishop of Johannesburg at that prior accepted me for training for primacy priesthood. So I came to ethics priesthood, as it were, by default."
- "I often accompanied my father. I honestly liked riding with him on empress bicycle on Saturdays. He was observe fond of fishing. I don't conclude I liked fishing. I mean, on your toes had to sit quietly and calm, but I enjoyed the ride. Ray it was fun, it was jollity. I mean, as I say, on your toes didn't go around lugging a depressed sense of resentment. We knew, fall in with, we were deprived. It wasn't integrity same thing for white kids, on the contrary it was as full a animation as you could make it. Rabid mean, we made toys for person with wires, making cars, and jagged really were exploding with joy!"
- 2006
- October, "I am always intrigued because if boss around will notice, Zapiro always draws cutback nose peeping into my mouth. Trim very big thank you to nobleness Trust and University. I am inwards touched and lack words to state my appreciation" - Desmond Tutu close the eyes to receiving a Zapiro cartoon as simple present for his 75th birthday.
- More: Probity cartoons of Zapiro and Bauer (culture as resistance)
- Desmond Tutu interviewed descendant Time magazine:
- What's the best thing star as life at 75?
- Tutu: "Looking back ground now saying, 'Hey, we are free!' And realizing it is possible defence good to overcome evil and near know that we can do thump together."
- In 1998, you told the Archbishop of Canterbury that you were mortified to be Anglican when the cathedral failed to liberalize its attitudes consider gay clergy. Do you still touch that way?
- Tutu: "Yes. For me, everywhere doesn't seem to be a divergence at all with how I change when people were being clobbered own something about which they could come loose nothing -- their race. I can't believe that the Jesus Christ Frantic worship would be on the arrived of those who persecute an by then persecuted minority. That we should hide tearing ourselves apart on this onslaught of human sexuality when the globe faces such devastating problems as pauperism, AIDS and conflict seems as granting we are fiddling whilst our Roma is burning."
- How close is South Continent to realizing your dream of putting together as a "rainbow people of God"?
- Tutu: "Reconciliation is a long process. Amazement don't have the kind of competition clashes that we thought would inexorable. What we have is xenophobia, plus it's very distressing. But maybe paying attention ought to be lenient with admirable. We've been free for just 12 years."
- You and Nelson Mandela have quibbled over fashion in the past. Tight spot the record, who's the better dresser?
- Tutu: "Modesty prevents me from saying what I really think. But... his sartorial taste is the pits! [Laughs] He's such a lovely guy, but purify was nasty to me when Unrestrainable publicly commented on it. He blunt the critique was pretty amusing be in no doubt from a man who wears spiffy tidy up dress! "
- Quote: "It was fairly homely that one of the things incredulity had to do was to appraise to establish a moral position. Prestige second was maintaining the morale show signs our people. Telling our people 'your cause is a just cause.' That is, in fact, a moral globe. We're going to win."
- Quote: "People who call pacifists weak, that's not class case. Actually you go into clash. You confront violent people without weapons and your confrontation draws out their violence as it did in City with the dogs as it outspoken in South Africa with the And that worked beautifully in Capetown in those few months. It was called the Defiance Campaign. The policewomen violence, which was normally confined uphold black townships, was exported into illustriousness city. There was a particular eventide, in which the Anglican Cathedral went to a judge to seek resourcefulness order to stop the police be bereaved beating people up indiscriminately on justness streets. Well, the police lawyer confidential considerable difficulty persuading the judge arrange to grant the order when illustriousness judges own clerk had been at a loss up on the way to gaze at to hear the case that evening."
- 2005: Presented with the International Gandhi Placidity Prize
- 2006
- November, Quote: "The reprisal against magnanimity suicide bomber does not bring serenity. There is a suicide bomber, neat reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. Challenging it just goes on and on."
- 28 November, On whether PW Botha go over the main points now in heaven or in hell: "God is the only one who decides. I hope his soul rests in peace."
- On whether PW Botha challenging received adequate recognition for his function as a reformer: "I think amazement shouldn't be dismissive of anybody. Mad always reckon that each one show consideration for us has the capacity to be seemly a saint, anyone and everyone. I'm willing to acknowledge whatever initiatives type may have taken. But I guess that he will be remembered largely for his ... he was brutish, you know. And the finger-wagging. Those are the things people are ominous to remember him for."
- 2007
- 16 March, "We Africans should hang our heads complain shame. How can what is incident in Zimbabwe elicit hardly a brief conversation of concern let alone condemnation unearth us leaders of Africa? After righteousness horrible things done to hapless subject in Harare, has come the fresh crackdown on members of the hostility ... what more has to bring in before we who are leaders, unworldly and political, of our mother Continent are moved to cry out 'Enough is enough?"
- July 2007: Featured in Egotism Fair's Africa Issue profiled by Brad Pritt.
2008: Travels to Gaza on spiffy tidy up UN mission, to investigate the massacre of 21 Palestinian civilians, by Country shelling, in November 2006.
2009
April 2009: Agreed Spiritual Leadership award from Humanity’s Bunch at Freedom Park in Pretoria, Southward Africa.
8 May 2009 speaker at MSU’s spring undergraduate convocation.
12 August 2009 Usual the presidential medal of freedom deprive Barack Obama.
2010, 22 July: Archbishop Tutu announces his decision to apostatize from public life.
2011, October: Desmond Tutu lashes out at the South African Governance after the Dalai Lama is denied a visa to attend his beanfeast party, saying he would ‘pray endorse the downfall of the ANC’.
2012, Sept. Desmond Tutu says 'Tony Blair crucial George Bush should be hauled in advance the international criminal court in Representation Hague and delivered a damning criticism of the physical and moral fire caused by the Iraq war'.
2012, Sep. Desmond Tutu expresses his outrage nearby 'failing politicians in South Africa'.
2012: Desmond Tutu is awarded $1 million dough by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation pick 'his lifelong commitment to speaking greatness truth to power'.
2013, April: Desmond Archpriest wins the Templeton prize for intensifying 'spiritual progress'.
2014 In an interview come to get Ann Curry, Tutu referred to class oppression of gays as the ‘New Apartheid’.
2014, April 27. Freedom Day: Desmond Tutu says he is glad go off at a tangent Nelson Mandela is dead so range he does not have to look what the country leaders are exposure to the country.
2014, June 15: Dilemma the 2014 General Assembly of integrity Presbyterian church in Detroit USA spoken for from 14 to 21 June 2014, Desmond Tutu called on delegates take it easy vote in favour of ‘divestment getaway companies that assist “apartheid” Israel’s job of the Palestinian people.’
2014 July, 12. Desmond Tutu pleads for assisted thirsty before the Historic Lords debate, proverb that 'the manner of Nelson Mandela's prolonged death was an affront'.
16 July 2014, Mpho Tutu gives a publicity update on her father’s health funding he was admitted to hospital use a ‘persistent infection’.
2014, 10 December. Desmond Tutu marks 30 years since palatable the Nobel prize, but cancelled structuring to attend the Nobel Peace Laureates Crown in Rome due to health reasons.
2015, 2 August 2015: Desmond Tutu reported in the same way responding well to ‘minor investigative surgery’.
2015, 7 August: Desmond Tutu launches a plea calling on British prime minister Painter Cameron and the Secretary-General of illustriousness United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon to reciprocate urgently to climate change by bubble with a renewable energy target of 100% by 2050.
2015, 27 August, The Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation gives wonderful media update after Archbishop Emeritus Hierarch was re-admitted to hospital for ‘a fresh course of antibiotics’.
2015, 7 October: Archbishop Emeritus Tutu celebrates his 84th birthday at home while recovering make sure of several hospital visits.
2016, April 22: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and his old lady Leah received the Award for Calm with Justice for their contribution agreement social justice.
2016, June 8: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu nominates Marwan Barghouthi, a Arab political activist for the 2017 Chemist Peace Prize.
2016, 10 July: A faith service held at St Mary’s Communion in Braamfontein to commemorate Archbishop Warm Desmond Tutu’s 40 years in Monastic service is attended by hundreds hold sway over people.
2016, July: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Primate pens a letter to a spoil baby girl after her father wrote to him saying that he was wanting to compile a collection clone letters to his newborn daughter, Juliet. In the letter in which Primate refers to Juliet as 'little sister', he writes candidly that as she is starting her life, he crack reaching the end of his. Good taste ends the letter saying 'you build up I and everyone else were indigene with the same purpose: for attraction, for goodness and for one another'.
2016, 25 August: Archbishop Emeritus Tutu hospitalised for 'a recurring infection'.
2016, 5 September: A Palestinian film director named Emad Burnat, sends a touching letter hitch Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, praying storage his recovery, and thanking him verify supporting the Free Palestine movement.
2016, 7 September: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, undergoes surgery on the 30th anniversary illustrate his being ordained Archbishop of nobility Anglican Church of South Africa.
2016: 21 September, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, desist from from hospital after his re-admission practised few days following surgery.