| 1745 | |
| 6 March | Kazimierz is born in Warsaw at the Pulaski residence on the corner of Nowy Swiat and Warecka Streets. He is the second son (of three) born to the starosta of Warka, Józef Pulaski and Marianna Zielinska his wife . A priest, Father Krzysztof Faltz was called to the house to administer baptism because of the child's debility. |
| 14 March | a grand completion of the baptismal ceremonies at the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw |
| 1762 | leaves the Theatine School in Warsaw which he had attended (most likely after getting an elementary education at the parish school in Warka) and becomes a page at the courts of Prince Charles of Courland [Kurlandia]; and Semigallia, son of King Augustus III. |
| 1763 | gains his first military experience during a six month long stay at Prince Charles' military camp, where he lived through the siege by the Russian army of the capital of the Kingdom of Courland - Mitava (now Jelgava in the Latvian Republic). |
| 1764 | |
| September | Józef Pulaski and his three sons take part in the election of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski as King of Poland in Warsaw |
| 1767 | |
| December | Józef Pulaski and his three sons leave Warsaw for Winiary, and start organizing an armed uprising in south-eastern Poland |
| 1768 | the eldest sons of Józef Pulaski, Franciszek and Casimir, travel along the Dniestr River recruiting for the confederation whose political side was being prepared at that time in Lvov by Józef Pulaski |
| 29 February | the establishment of the Bar Confederation in Podole with the Chamberlain from Rozan, Michal Krasinski, at its head |
| 4 March | the establishment of the military arm of the confederation with Józef Pulaski at its head with the title of Marshal of the Union; among the commanders of the regiments were his three sons, Franciszek, starosta of Augustów; Casimir, starosta of Zezuliniec; and Antoni, starosta of Czeresz |
| around 20 April | Casimir Pulaski leads his first skirmish with the vanguard of the Russian troops which had been sent to Podole to put down the uprising |
| 23 April | defends Starokonstantynów |
| May | fights defensive actions near Chmielnik and Winnica and then fortifies Berdyczów |
| 13 June | after a two week long siege he capitulates along with his troops and is taken prisoner by the Russians |
| 20 June | the Russian army takes the town of Bar, the second important insurgent stronghold; Józef Pulaski crosses the Dniestr River with the rest of his troops and takes refuge on Turkish soil |
| 17 July | Casimir Pulaski is freed by the Russians and goes to the Bar Confederation camp at Chocim |
| September - October | he and his brothers carry out raids along the northern bank of the Dniestr River |
| December | Józef Pulaski is arrested by the Turks as a result of intrigues in the confederate camp |
| 1769 | |
| Winter | the Pulaski brothers at the head of their troops occupy and fortify Zwaniec and the Holy Trinity Trenches on the Dniestr River |
| February | Casimir Pulaski carries out a reconnaissance raid toward Zaleszczyki and fights a skirmish near Tluste; at the same time receives a declaration from the confederates of western Little Poland (Malopolska) to join them |
| early March | the youngest of the sons, Antoni, falls into Russian captivity |
| 8 March | the Russian army takes Zwaniec and the Holy Trinity Trenches; Franciszek and Casimir take refuge along with the survivors on the southern shore of the Dniestr River, on Turkish soil |
| end of March | Casimir Pulaski crosses the frontier in Kuty and
marches through Czarnohora and Gorgany towards the Kraków region
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| 3 April | in a letter written from Radoszyce (near the Lupków Mountain Pass) he reports to Prince Marcin Lubomirski, a leader of the confederates in Little Poland |
| mid April | the main organizer of the Bar rising, Józef Pulaski, dies in a Turkish prison as a result of a raging epidemic |
| late April | Franciszek Pulaski returns with his units to Poland and appears in eastern Little Poland |
| around 13 May | the Pulaski brothers meet in Sambor and decide to operate in unison |
| 22 May | Franciszek Pulaski is named marshal of the confederated Przemysl region |
| end of May | the Pulaski brothers take part in an unsuccessful attempt to occupy Lvov |
| late June | arriving in the Lublin area and reaching Polesie, the brothers organize a rising in Lithuania; |
| 6 July | Casimir Pulaski commands in victorious battle at Kukielki |
| 12 July | he commands in victorious battle at Slonim |
| 3 August | Casimir Pulaski is named marshal of the confederation forces in the Lomza region |
| 13 September | the detachments led by the Pulaski brothers are defeated at Orzechów and Franciszek is killed in battle |
| in September | Casimir Pulaski takes part in the war council at Zborov in Slovakia which precedes the establishment of the General High Board of the Confederation called the Generality which becomes the chief insurgent authority |
| October-December | he stays with his troops in the Dukla region near Grab at the source of the Wisloka River. |
| 1770 | |
| 13 January | his hand is wounded during a skirmish near Grab |
| February - March | is stationed in the Nowy Targ region |
| in April | is stationed in the Nowy Sacz district |
| 15 May | loses a battle near Pilzno during a raid in the direction of Kraków |
| mid June | while at Presov in Slovakia where the Austrian authorities had granted asylum to the Generality, Pulaski met with the Austrian Emperor Joseph II who visited the confederates |
| 3 August | he loses a battle at Wysowa with Drewitz's army, and later takes shelter on Austrian soil |
| 7 August | meets in Zborov with Charles Dumouriez, the new French government emissary and military adviser to the Generality |
| 25 August | is in Nowy Targ with his army
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| 1 September | organizes a night raid on Kraków after which he retreats toward Czestochowa |
| 9 September | he occupies the monastery at Jasna Góra (Czestochowa) |
| 29 September | organizes a raid from Zarnowiec through Jedrzejów to Koniecpol |
| 19 October | organizes a raid from Czestochowa towards Poznan |
| in November | prepares Jasna Góra for a siege; the Russian army approaches Czestochowa twice in this period |
| 31 December | the beginning of the siege of Czestochowa by the army of General Drewitz, supported by Prussian artillery |
| 1771 | |
| 4 January | Casimir Pulaski organizes a raid from the monastery and destroys an enemy battery |
| 9 January | all-out attack is repulsed |
| 15 January | Drevitz's army leaves Czestochowa |
| around 1 March | Pulaski stages a raid from Czestochowa toward Krasnik |
| in April | Casimir Pulaski takes part in a council in Biala concerning the attack on Little Poland (Malopolska) |
| 21 May | he starts a raid through Tymbark, Limanowa, Nowy Sacz, Debica, Zamosc (skirmishing along the way in Kolbuszowa, Debica, Mielec); |
| 2 June | Pulaski's units fight battle with a Russian army corps at Zamosc after which they retreat towards Tarnów and Lanckorona |
| 18 June | Casimir Pulaski is back at Jasna Góra which is again threatened with a siege by Drewitz and the Polish Royal Army under the command of Branicki |
| in September | he proposes a plan to reorganize the high command (five general commanders) at a council in Presov in Slovakia, the idea is not accepted |
| 20 October | he leaves Czestochowa for a diversionary raid in the direction of Warsaw; meanwhile a group commanded by Strawinski was to make an attempt to abduct King Stanislaus August Poniatowski |
| 31 October | he loses a battle at Skaryszew near Radom; is wounded in the arm and his scattered units retreat towards Czestochowa |
| 3 November | the abduction of King Stanislaus August Poniatowski proves unsuccessful, Pulaski is implicated as an instigator of the scheme |
| 30 November | the Austrian authorities forbid Pulaski entry into Austria as one of the organizers of the attempted abduction of the king |
| 1 December | he returns to Jasna Góra. |
| 1772 | |
| around 20 February | stages a raid from Czestochowa towards Kraków |
| 31 May | Pulaski leaves the Jasna Góra fortress and takes refuge in Prussian Silesia |
| end of June | he arrives in Dresden |
| in August | he visits AItwasser in Silesia under the assumed name of
Rudzinski to see Franciszka Krasinska and then surreptitiously watches
the maneuvers of the Prussian troops near Nysa
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| in September | he leaves Germany and stops in Nancy, France. |
| 1773 | |
| in March | he moves to Paris |
| beginning of May | he goes to Dresden to be nearer Poland while the trial of the participants in the abduction attempt is being held |
| 7 June | the beginning of the trial (which lasts until 28 August) with Casimir Pulaski sentenced in absentia to beheading for attempted regicide |
| 25 September | under the assumed name of Korwin he meets with the leaders of the Generality in Strassburg and announces that he will take part in the war between Turkey and Russia, after which he travels to Paris |
| 1774 | |
| in March | he leaves Paris and with a group of companions goes to Turkey |
| 12 April | he sails from Venice to Ragusa (Dubrovnik) in order to reach the Turkish army which is fighting the Russians at the mouth of the Danube River |
| around 20 June | he reaches the Vizier's camp near Shumen west of Varna where he takes part in the defeat suffered by the Turkish forces |
| around 15 October | after the unsuccessful Turkish expedition and a three month long journey (Adrianople, Constantinople, Izmir) he returns to France and stops in Marseilles |
| 20 December | this is the date of the memorial written to the French authorities by Józef Zajaczek in order to obtain financial aid for Pulaski |
| 1775 | |
| in Marseilles living from an allowance and loans | |
| October | spends a short time in debtors' prison |
| 1776 | |
| 15 August | he appeals to the Sejm (Polish Parliament) in Warsaw to be allowed to return to Poland but there is no reply; at this time that he makes efforts to be accepted into the American Revolutionary Army |
| 1777 | |
| March - April | he arrives in Paris after obtaining permission to go to America |
| 29 May | he receives a letter of recommendation from Benjamin Franklin addressed to George Washington |
| 6 June | he writes a letter of farewell to his sister Anne in Warsaw and sails on the ship Massachusetts from Nantes to America |
| 23 July | he lands in America at Marblehead near Boston |
| in August | after a short stay in Boston he reports at the headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army George Washington located in Moland House in Warwick Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
| 24 August | he offers his military services to Congress |
| 11 September | he takes part in his first battle on American soil, on the Brandywine Creek between Chester and Philadelphia |
| 15 September | he is named a general of cavalry
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| 3 October | he fights at Germantown and covers Washington's retreat after the battle is lost |
| in the winter | Pulaski patrols the area around Valley Forge where Washington's army takes up winter quarters; his own quarters are in Devault Beaver's house |
| 1778 | |
| 8 January | moves with his unit to Trenton where he organizes and trains the troops |
| end of February - start of March |
he joins General Wayne in the fighting against the British in New Jersey; a skirmish at Haddonfield |
| mid March | while in Valley Forge Pulaski asks Washington to release him from his post as the commander of cavalry and puts forward a plan for an independent detachment which he would command |
| 19 March | while in Yorktown he presents his plan of forming a Legion to Congress |
| 28 March | he receives Congressional permission for the scheme |
| late April | he establishes the headquarters of the Legion in Baltimore |
| 18 May | Pulaski's Legion receives its banner; embroidered by the Moravian Order of Nuns of Bethlehem |
| 15 September | Pulaski reports to Washington that the Legion is ready for action |
| 8 October | Pulaski's Legion arrives at Egg Harbor where a week later it was surprised by a British night attack and suffered serious losses |
| 24 October | the Legion arrives at Trenton, then relocates to Sussex Court House and finally to Minisink where it is ordered to defend the colonists against the Indians |
| 15 November | Pulaski asks Washington to be released from his post and writes of his intention to return to Europe |
| 1779 | |
| in January | while in Philadelphia he withdraws the resignation he sent to Congress |
| 8 February | Washington orders the Legion to march south from Yorktown in the direction of Savannah |
| 8 May | the Legion arrives in Charleston where it takes part in the fighting for the town |
| 19 August | Pulaski's last letter to Congress |
| 14 September | Pulaski's Legion arrives at Savannah, to take part in taking the town |
| 9 October | Pulaski is mortally wounded in the attack on Savannah |
| 15 October | he dies on board the brigantine Wasp while it is still anchored near Savannah; his body is taken to nearby Greenwich Plantation and buried there in a torchlight ceremony |
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| 21 October | a symbolic funeral of the hero in Charleston |
| 1793 | through the efforts of Antoni Pulaski the Sejm (Polish Parliament) revokes the sentence from the trial held in 1773 (in absentia) which found Pulaski guilty of attempted regicide and condemned him to death |
| 1825 | A corner stone is laid for Casimir Pulaski's monument by Lafayette in Savannah's Chippewa Square. |
| 1855 | A monument to Pulaski designed by Robert Launitz is finally erected in Monterey Square in Savannah. The corner stone from Chippewa Square and Pulaski's remains from Greenwich Plantation are placed in its underground brick lined crypt. |
| 1910 | Casimir Pulaski's monument in Washington is unveiled |
| 1929 | A monument to Pulaski is unveiled in Krynica, Poland; it is the first monument to Pulaski built on Polish soil |
| 1967 | the Casimir Pulaski museum in Warka-Winiary, Poland opens |
| 1979 | the 200th anniversary of Pulaski's death, a statue by Kazimerz Danilewicz, a gift of the Polish nation to the United States, is dedicated in Buffalo, and a copy placed in the park near the Pulaski museum in Warka. |
| 1996 | the Pulaski Monument in Savannah is taken down for renovation, the underground crypt is uncovered and found to contain two cornerstones and an iron box. The box bears a plate "Brigadier General Casimer Pulaski" and contains the bones of a man matching Pulaski in stature and physical characteristics. |
| 1997 | a conference is convened on Pulaski at the Museum in Warka, Poland; among those delivering papers is Edward Pinkowski |
| 1998 | a search for DNA samples begins for comparison to the remains found in Savannah |
| 2005 11 October |
a grand ceremony of reburial, that includes members of the US and Polish governments, takes place at the Pulaski Monument in Savannah, a container holding Pulaski's remains and a time capsule are lowered into a separate burial crypt |
