1878

This is a timeline of Van Gogh's life, from the 30th of march 1853, when he was born, to the 29th of juli 1890, when he commits suicide.
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	Vincent cancels his study and follows an evangeliststraining in Laken and becomes an evangelist in the Borinage. He abandoned his religious studies and went to work as a lay preacher among the impoverished miners of the grim Borinage district in Belgium. Often, he gave away his own few worldly good to the poor, earning him the disapproval of his superiors. Nonetheless, he could not convincingly communicate his religious feelings to his flock and was dismissed for what was considered his 'overzealous behavior'. He remained in the Borinage, suffering acute poverty and a spiritual crisis until 1880.