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1975
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1 JANUARY
Communist troops in Cambodia launched an offensive which in 117 days collapsed the Khmer Republic.
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3 JANUARY
Sri Chinmoy met with C.V. Narasimhan, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs. 
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20 JANUARY
The Senate of Puerto Rico unanimously passed a proclamation to honour Sri Chinmoy's visit to the Senate floor.
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23 JANUARY
Sri Chinmoy received a certificate of merit from North American Mentor poetry magazine.
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JANUARY
Bob Dylan released 'Blood on the Tracks' album.
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3 FEBRUARY
Sri Chinmoy completed 4,000 paintings.
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9 FEBRUARY
Sri Chinmoy offered his first 7-hour meditation.
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11 FEBRUARY
Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the Tory party in England.
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19 FEBRUARY
Sri Chinmoy completed 7,000 paintings.
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24 FEBRUARY
In Nepal, Birendra was crowned king. He came to the throne on 31 January 1972.
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26 FEBRUARY
Sri Chinmoy painted 1,000 paintings in 21 hours to complete his 10,000 paintings since he began on 19 November 1974.
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8 MARCH
The UN began observing International Women’s Day.
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10 MARCH
The Shinkansen (Bullet Train) opened between Osaka and Fukuoka.
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21 MARCH
Sri Chinmoy offered a meditation and lecture at Earth Day ceremonies in Battery Park, New York.
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25 MARCH
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated.
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25 MARCH
Sri Chinmoy offered a tribute to the Prophet Mohammed at the United Nations.
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28 MARCH
A new American flag was flown over the Capitol Building in Washington, DC in honour of Sri Chinmoy’s 11th year in the West. The flag was then sent to Senator Lowell Weicker, Jr. of Connecticut who presented it to Sri Chinmoy.
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31 MARCH
Opening of an exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s paintings on Wooster St in Soho, NY.
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MARCH
The Sri Chinmoy Centre was accredited as a non-governmental organisation (NGO) at the United Nations. Sri Chinmoy served as its representative to the UN.
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5 APRIL
Death of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1887), President of the Republic of China.
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11 APRIL
Sri Chinmoy created 11 large paintings (4’x8’) dedicated to the soul of America.
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12 APRIL
Sri Chinmoy’s paintings for America were displayed at Columbia University.
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13 APRIL
Civil War erupted in Beirut, Lebanon.
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16 APRIL-9 JUNE
Sri Chinmoy offered 7 lectures at Harvard Divinity School.
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17 APRIL
The government of Cambodia surrendered to the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot. He ruled Cambodia until 1979. An estimated 1.7 million people were killed under Khmer Rouge.
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17 APRIL
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (b. 1888), Indian philosopher and president, died. He had been awarded the 1975 Templeton Prize for progress in Religion.
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21 APRIL
Bill Rodgers (USA) won the Boston Marathon in 2:09:55, breaking the American Record.
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28 APRIL
Sri Chinmoy met with American artist Peter Max.
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28 APRIL
Sri Chinmoy painted a 9’x16’ canvas.
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29 APRIL
The last US forces pulled out of Vietnam.
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30 APRIL
The Fall of Saigon. The Vietnam War ended as Communist forces seized Saigon. South Vietnam surrendered unconditionally. Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
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3 MAY
Sri Chinmoy gave a talk at Naval Air Station, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, on The Quintessence of Patriotism.
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6 MAY
Sri Chinmoy left for a two-week stay with his family in Pondicherry, South India.
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7 MAY
President Ford declared an end to the ‘Vietnam Era’.
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16 MAY
India annexed the principality of Sikkim.
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16 MAY
Mayor Longo of Bristol, Connecticut, named a new variety of chrysanthemum ‘The Honorable Sri Chinmoy’.
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19 MAY - 17 JUNE
Exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s paintings at the Musee del Arte, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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22 MAY
Sri Chinmoy offered a programme dedicated to the Buddha, at the United Nations.
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25 MAY
Sri Chinmoy offered the opening meditation at the International Conference on Transpersonal Psychology in Iceland.
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5 JUNE
The Suez Canal re-opened for the first time after the Six-Day War.
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15 JUNE
Sri Chinmoy offered his first 13-hour meditation on the occasion of Father’s Day.
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25 JUNE
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India.
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25 JUNE
Mozambique became an independent state, ending nearly five centuries of Portuguese rule.
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27 JUNE
Sri Chinmoy completed 27,000 paintings.
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5 JULY
Arthur Ashe became the first African-American to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy Connors.
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8 JULY
At the invitation of Sufi leader Pir Vilayat Khan, Sri Chinmoy led a meditation session at a Sufi retreat in Willow, New York.
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11 JULY
Archaeologists in China unearthed an army of 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors created more than 2,000 years earlier for the Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi. A farmer had uncovered the first of the figures in 1974.
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17 JULY
A US Apollo Spaceship docked with a Soviet Soyuz Spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.
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24 JULY
President Ford proclaimed this day as a National Day of Prayer.
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24 JULY
Sri Chinmoy meditated on stage with religious leaders from various faiths at the National Day of Prayer observance held at the Church Center for the United Nations.
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JULY
Zakir Hussain and John McLaughlin co-founded the Indian jazz band Shakti.
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JULY
President Ford appointed Daniel Patrick Moynihan as ambassador to the UN.
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11-17 AUGUST
The first World Masters Track & Field Games was held in Toronto, Canada.
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15 AUGUST
President Mujibar Rahman of Bangladesh was killed during a military coup.
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27 AUGUST
Haile Selassie I (b. 1882), Ethiopian emperor, died.
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27 AUGUST
On the occasion of his 44th birthday, Sri Chinmoy performed on 27 different musical instruments.
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29 AUGUST
Eamon de Valera (b. 1882), third President of Ireland, died.
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5 SEPTEMBER
Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asked for political asylum in New York City.
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12 SEPTEMBER
Sri Chinmoy completed 44,000 paintings.
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16 SEPTEMBER
Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia.
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28 SEPTEMBER
The first public Sri Chinmoy Race was held: 7 miles in Stamford, Connecticut.
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1 OCTOBER
‘Thrilla in Manila’ - Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier for the heavyweight boxing title.
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3 OCTOBER
Sri Chinmoy completed his 100,000th painting since he began on 19 November 1974.
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11 OCTOBER
NBC aired the first episode of Saturday Night Live.
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13 OCTOBER
Mayor Joseph Alioto of San Francisco proclaimed the day Sri Chinmoy Day in honour of Sri Chinmoy’s visit.
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24 OCTOBER
Sri Chinmoy conducted the opening meditation at the Fifth World Spiritual Summit held in NY in honour of UN Day. Also in attendance was Mother Teresa.
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1 NOVEMBER
Sri Chinmoy wrote 843 poems in 24 hours, published in a single volume called Transcendence-Perfection.
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11 NOVEMBER
The Governor-General of Australia dissolved the elected government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
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16 NOVEMBER
Sri Chinmoy completed 16,031 paintings in a 24-hour period.
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22 NOVEMBER
Juan Carlos 1 was declared the King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
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22 NOVEMBER
Sri Chinmoy spontaneously set to music and sang 200 Bengali poems (published as Pole-Star Promise-Light, Parts 1-4).
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28 NOVEMBER
East Timor proclaimed independence from Portugal.
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29 NOVEMBER
The name ‘Micro-soft’ was used in a letter by Bill Gates for the first time.
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7 DECEMBER
Indonesia invaded East Timor. Some 600,000 were left dead after a prolonged war.
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18 DECEMBER
Paul O’Dwyer, New York City Council president, presented Sri Chinmoy with the Bronze Medal of the City of New York.
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20 DECEMBER
Sri Chinmoy spontaneously set to music and sang 99 English poems from his volume Transcendence-Perfection.
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During 1975
Smallpox was eradicated in India and Bangladesh.
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During 1975
The world population passed the 4 billion mark.
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During 1975
An entry for Sri Chinmoy (under ‘Ghose, Chinmoy’) appeared in The New Columbia Encyclopedia.
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