1895 Born (May 9th) as the ninth son of the parish priest (Romanian Orthodox Church) of the village of Lâncrâm, south of Alba Iulia in Transylvannia, then in Hungary.
1908 The death of his father leaves the family destitute and Blaga has to leave secondary school, but later registers as an external student.
1910 Publishes his first poems.
1914 Publishes his first philosophical article, 'Notes on intuition in Bergson'. To avoid service in the Austro-Hungarian army, attends theological classes at the Theological Institute of Sibiu, graduating in 1917.
1918 Begins to study philosophy at the University of Vienna.
1920 Awarded his Ph. D. with a thesis, Kultur und Erkenntnis. Marries. Returns to Rornania. Publishes more poems and also begins to publish plays.
1922 Publishes Culture and Cognition (thesis).
1926 Goes as press attache to the Rornanian legation in Warsaw.
1927 Is transferred to Prague. Dorli, his daughter, is born.
1932 Transferred to Vienna.
1937 Gives maiden speech, Eulogy to the Romanian Village, at Romanian Academy.
1938 Transferred back to Bucharest and then to Lisbon.
Returns to Romania as Professor of the Philosophy of Culture (a chair specially created for him) at the University of Cluj.
1947 Romanian Students' Union publishes first part of his course, On Philosophical Cognition.
1948 Lithographed publication of his course Anthropological Aspects.
1949 Is dismissed from his chair by the Communist regimé and appointed librarian of the Cluj branch of the library of the Romanian Academy. Out of favour, he publishes only translations until 1960.
1956. Nominated for the Nobel Prize on the proposal of Bazil Munteanu (France) and Rosa del Conte (Italy), he was on the point of getting the award when the communist government in Bucharest sent emissaries to Sweden to protest against his nomination with false political allegations.
1961 Dies of cancer. Buried at Lâncrâm.
1962 Blaga's works begin to be published again, many edited by his daughter.

Poems
1919 Poems of Light
1921 The Prophet's Footsteps
1924 In the Great Passage
1929 In Praise of Sleep
1933 At the Watershed
1938 At the Courtyard of Yearning
1943 Unsuspected Steps--New Poems
1982-3 Posthumous Poems

Plays
1921 Zamolxis, A Pagan Mystery
1923 Whirling Waters
1925 Daria, The Deed, Resurrection
1927 Master-Builder Manole
1930 The Children's Crusade
1934 Avram Iancu
1944 Noah's Ark

Philosophical works
1924 The Philosophy of Style.
1925 The Original Phenomenon and The Facets of a Century
1931 The Dogmatic Aeon
1933 Luciferian Knowledge
1934 Transcendental Censorship
1936 Horizon and Style and The Mioritic Space
1937 The Genesis of Metaphor and the Meaning of Culture
1939 Art and Value
1940 The Divine Differentials
1942 Religion and Spirit and Science and Creation
1943 The Trilogy of Knowledge (The Dogmatic Aeon, Luciferian Knowledge, Transcendent Censorship: in 1983 On Philosophical Cognition and Experiment and the Mathematical Spirit added by his daughter)
1944 The Trilogy of Culture (Horizon and Style, The Mioritic Space, The Genesis of Metaphor and the Meaning of Culture)
1946 The Trilogy of Values (Science and Creation, Magical Thinking and Religion, Art and Value)
1959 Historical Existence
1966 Romanian Thought in Transylvania in the 18th Century
1968 Horizons and Stages
1969 Experiment and the Mathematical Spirit
1972 Sources (essays, lectures, articles)
1974 On Philosophical Cognition
1977 Philosophical Essays
1983 The Cosmological Triology (The Divine Differentials, Anthropological Aspects, Historical Existence)

Other Prose Works
1919 Stones for My Temple, aphorisms
1945 Discoblus, aphorisms
1965 The Chronicle and Song of Ages, memoirs
1977 The Élan of the Island, aphorisms
1990 Charon's Ferry, novel