Rabisarani

Seven (7) songs, composed by Rabindranath, are sung at the fifty first anniversary of Brahmo Samaj:

• Tumi ki go pita amader

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• Mahasinhasane basi shunicha he

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• Amra je shishu ati

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• Tomarei kariyachi jibaner dhruvatara

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• E ki e sundar shobha

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• Dibanishi kariya jatan

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• Kotha acho prabhu, esechi dinhin

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Rabindranath's first musical play Valmiki-Pratibha, is staged at the Jorasanko Thakur Bari (Tagore house) before a distinguished gathering. Rabindranath himself plays the title role.

Keshabchandra Sen's Bharatbarshiya Brahmasamaj is renamed as Nababidhan.

Printing of the 34-Sarga (section) romantic Gitikabya (ode) Bhagnahriday (Rabindranath's first verse-drama) starts. It mostly consists of songs.

Rabindranath delivers his first public lecture titled Sangit O Bhav (Music and Feeling) at Calcutta Medical College under the auspices of Bethune Society with Rev. Krishnamohan Banerjee in the chair.

Rabindranath sails for England with his nephew Satyaprasad Ganguly.

Rabindranath changes his mind on the way and returns to Calcutta (now Kolkata) from Madras (now Chennai).

Rabindranath proceeds to Mussoorie to meet Maharshi Debendranath, who was staying there at that time.

Rabindranath returns home at Jorasanko from Mussoorie where he went to meet his father Maharshi Debendranath, and goes to the garden house of Jyotirindranath and Kadambari Devi at Chandernagore (now in Hoogly district of West Bengal).

At the Garden house of Jyotirindranath and Kadambari Devi in Chandernagore, Rabindranath writes a series of essays later compiled in the book Vividha Prasanga (Miscellaneous Topics).

While staying at the Garden house of Jyotirindranath and Kadambari Devi in Chandernagore, Rabindranath begins his novel Bauthakuranir Hat.

On return to Calcutta (now Kolkata) from the Garden House of Jyotirindranath and Kadambari Devi at Chandernagore, Rabindranath begins writing his first set of poems, which bear a real individualistic note. These poems are published in the book Sandhya Sangit (Evening Songs).

Rabindranath's poems of Sandhya Sangit make a deep impression on Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay.

Rabindranath's four books are published in this year Valmiki-Pratibha, Bhagnahriday, Rudrachanda and Europe Pravasir Patra.