| 354 | Born in Tagaste (Numidia) on November 13, son of Patritius, owner of a small landed estate, and of Monica, a christian. |
| 361-367 | Moves to Madaura for his secondary scholls, until he has to give up for economic difficulties. |
| 369-373 | With the help of a family' friend, Romanianus, resumes his studies in Carthago, in the important rhetoric school. When his studies end, again for economical reasons, he cannot pursue his will to continue his philosophical studied in Alexandria, and he comes back to Tagaste to teach rhetoric and grammar. He is strongly influenced by the reading of Cicero's Hortensius (a lost work). |
| 371 | He takes a concubine from whom he has a son, Adeodatus. In this period adheres to Manichaeism. |
| 374-383 | He teachs in Carthago with great success, until he decide to move to Rome, followed by some frieds, fmor his mother and from Adeodatus. In this period is strongly influenced by the classical thought, through the reading of Plato and Plotinus. |
| 385-386 | After a deep intimate crisis and mystical reflection, he decides to adhere to Christianity: he give up with teaching and he retires in Cassiciaco (north of Italy). |
| 387 | He is baptized in Milan, by the bishop Ambrose. He decides to come back to Africa (first in Carthago, next in Tagaste): along the way, in Ostia, his mother dies. |
| 388 | He sell out his estate and retire himself as a cenobite. |
| 391 | in Hippo, were he found a cloister, faithfuls invoke his appointment to priest. |
| 395-396 | He is designed "assistant bishop" and, after bishop Valerius death, bishop of Hippo, a position he will hold until his death. |
| 430 | After having conquered fame as spiritual guide for all Christian world (often for his controversies against pagans, pelagians, etc.), he dies in Hippo, while Vandals keep the city under siege. |
