10.09.1809 or 1811
He was born in Kukavechyna, Vitebsk district.
1829–1830
He studied at the Dinaburg school of ensigns.
1830–1831
Participated in the uprising, emigrated to France.
1832–1846
Lived in Paris. He began to prepare memoirs about the November Uprising - his own and those of his comrades in arms. Fragments of them under the title "Uprising of Viley, Zaviley and Disen counties" were published anonymously in 1836.
1839
At the meeting of the Polish Literary Society in Paris, A. Rypinski read the first report on Belarusian ethnography and folklore.
1840
On the basis of his own lectures, he published a folkloristic study "Belarus" as a separate book, in which he first systematized the oral creativity of the Belarusian people by genres and topics. The book contains a large number of ritual works, provides descriptions of ceremonies, information on the history of literature and musical culture of Vitebsk region, published folk religious songs of book origin, own works stylized as folk songs.
1846
He moved to London, where he was engaged in publishing and creative activities, taught languages, mathematics and drawing. He was widely known as an artist, he designed his own books, and he showed his talent for artistic photography.
1852
Together with I. Yatkovsky, he founded a free printing house in the London suburb of Tottenham.
1859
He returned to his homeland. Under the supervision of the police, he lived in Kukavechyna, later moved to the Stragana estate. He collected samples of rich Belarusian oral and poetic creativity, processed folk songs (classified them), fairy tales. He worked on the history of Belarusian literature, created a number of biographies of Belarusian writers, following a list he had compiled himself (55 names).
1886 or 1900
He died in Stragany.