Timeline of Events in Heifetz' Childhood

Year	Event
1901 (?)	Iosef Ruvinovich (Jascha) Heifetz is born On 2^nd Feb Some say he could have been born in 1899
1904	First lessons aged 3 with his Father Reuven
1905	Aged 4 masters Dont études (?)
1905	Heifetz early teacher is Elias Malkin
1906	Performance at Imperial School of Music, Vilnius (performs the Fantasie Pastorale by Singeleé)
1908	Heifetz first performance aged 7 in Kovno, Lithuania playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concert From then on, he became the family's breadwinner
1910	Heifetz joins the St Petersburg Conservatoire to study under Ovanes Nalbandian
1911	Heifetz studies under Leopold Auer at the Conservatoire
1911	Performs in an outdoor concert in St Petersberg before 25,000 people
1912	Meets Fritz Kreisler for the first time in Berlin Kreisler said to all present, 'We may as well break our fiddles across our knees.'" after hearing him play
1912	Violinist Jascha Heifetz's first appearance in The Strad, October 1912 The legendary artist was first mentioned in The Strad at the age of eleven following several well-received performances
1914	Heifetz with Arthur Nikisch and the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin
1917	Heifetz reaches New York
1917	October Heifetz performs at Carnegie Hall

JASCHA HEIFETZ