Timeline

-October 7, 1931: Desmond Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, South Africa (Biography.com Editors).

-1948: South Africa's National Party wins election and Apartheid begins (Biography.com Editors).

-1953: Desmond Tutu graduates from Pretoria Bantu Normal College (Biography.com Editors).

-1953: South Africa passes the Bantu Eduation Act, which limited eduation for black children (Biography.com Editors).

-1958: Dsmond Tutu enrolls in St. Peter's Theologicla College in Johannesburg (Biography.com Editors).

-1960 South African government bans the ANC and PAC (Trials and Prision Chronology...).

-1961: Dsmond Tutu is ordained as a priest (Biography.com Editors).

-1964: Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment causing mass protests and a push for a reveloution (Trials and Prision Chronology...).

-1975: Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican dean of Johannesburg which helps to reform the South African church (Biography.com Editors).

-1976: Desmond Tutu becomes bishop of Lesotho (Biography.com Editors).

-1984: Desmond Tutu recieves Nobel Peace Prize further cementing his importance in the fight against apartheid (Biography.com Editors).

-1986: Desmond Tutu becomes Archbishop of South Africa (Biography.com Editors).

-1990: Nelson Mandela is released from prision due to a global reaction and condemning of aparthied with many economic sanctions (Trials and Prision Chronology...).

-1994: Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa and apartheid officially ends (Biography.com Editors). 

- 1999: Desmond Tutu releases his first book No Future Without Forgiveness, hoping to impact the people of the world with the story of apartheid (No Future Without Forgiveness).

-2007: Desmond Tutu joins the Elders hoping to influence others for human rights (Biography.com Editors).

-December 26, 2021: Desmond Tutu dies (Biography.com Editors).