1910Mark Twain's Interactive Timeline
1835
1910
| Mark
Twain's Life |
American
Political and
Cultural History |
| 1835: Born November 30, in Florida, Missouri (PBS) | 1835: Halley's comet visible from Earth/ "Flash Times": second wave of westward expansion.(PBS) |
| 1836: Bret Harte born (ASS) | 1836: Samual F.B. Morse invents telegraph / Mexican army attacks Texans in the Alamo / Battle of San Jacinto (TLI)(IP) |
1837:Martin Van Buren becomes president / Victoria becomes queen of Britain (WHG) |
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| 1839: Moves to Hannibal, Missouri, close to Mississippi River (PBS) | 1839: Spanish slave ship Amistad is taken over in a mutiny / First Opium War (GUW) |
| 1840: Samuel Cunard begins transatlantic steamship service / Lower and Upper Canada United (TLI)(IP) | |
1845:James Polk elected President / Congress agrees for annexation of Texas / Poe writes The Raven and other poems. (WHG) |
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| 1846: U.S. declares war on Mexico/ California and New Mexico annexed by U.S. / Sewing machine patented (IP) | |
| 1847: Father dies. Family suffers. (ETL) | 1847: U.S. House of Representative Abraham Lincoln makes speech oppossing Mexican War / Mexican armies defeated. (GUW) |
| 1849: First gold seekers arrive in San Francisco. Discovery of gold in California. (GUW) | |
| 1851: Works with the Hannibal Gazette / publishes first sketches (PBS) | |
| 1857: Takes apprenticeship as steamboat pilot in New Orleans with Horace Bixby (ASS) | 1857: Supreme Court rules that a slave is not a citizen (Dred Scott) (IP) |
| 1858: Brother Henry killed in steamboat accident. (BDN) | 1858: Financial Panic of 1858 / First trans-atlantic telegraph cable / Lincoln-Douglas debates / Kansas rejects pro-slavery constitution (GUW) |
| 1861: Twain serves two weeks with Confederate irregulars / Moves to Nevada with his brother Orion. (PBS)(ASS) | 1861: American Civil War begins / First battle of Bull Run / Congress adopts income tax / Colorado, Dakota, and Nevada territories recognized by Congress / Abraham Lincoln elected President (WHG)(GUW) |
| 1864: Forced to leave Nevada / Prospects gold in Calaveras County / moves to San Francisco (ETL) | 1864: Lincoln re-elected / Sand Creek Massacre of Native Americans in Colorado / Nathaniel Hawthorne dies / (WHG)(GUW) |
| 1867: Publishes The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches. (ASS) | 1867:Alaska purchased from Russia / Nebraska becomes a state / Ku Klux Klan formally organized (GUW) (TAH) |
| 1868: Meets and falls in love with Livy in Elmira, New York. (ETL) | 1868: U.S. citizenship granted to all born in U.S except Native Americans / Revolution in Spain / Civil rights for Blacks-14th amendment (TAH) |
| 1869: First transcontinental railroad completed / Suez Canal opens / Periodic table of the Elements introduced (WBE) | |
| 1872: Writes Roughing It (ALL) | |
| 1874: Second daughter Clara is born (ALL) | 1874: Increased rights for Women in the workplace. Elephant established as Republican symbol. (TAH)(WBE) |
| 1876: writes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (ETL) | 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone / Colorado becomes state / Famine in India; 5 million deaths. (IP) (TAH) |
| 1877: Twain and Bret Harte combines effort in Ah Sin. (TQ). . | 1877: Russo-Turkish War / "Reconstruction" end in the South / Phonograph patented by Thomas Edison (TAH) |
1880: Daughter Jean is born. (ETL)
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1880: James A. Garfield becomes president / Supreme Court rules blacks held from jury duty unconstitutional. Census counts 50 million people in America (WHG) (TAH) |
| 1884: Twain writes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (ETL) | 1884: First "skyscraper" constructed / Grover Cleveland elected President / Lewis Waterman invents practical fountain pen invented. (TAH) (IP) |
| 1886: Statue of Liberty dedicated to America by France.(TAH) | |
| 1890: Mother Jane Lampton Clemens dies (PBS) | 1890: Yosemite Park created by Congress / Battle at Wounded Knee / Sherman Antitrust Act / Idaho becomes 43rd state.(TAH) |
| 1891: Moves to Europe because of financial difficulties (ALL) | |
| 1896: Susie Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, dies. (ALL) | 1896: First use of X-ray to treat breast cancer / Utah becomes a state / Klondike gold rush begins / Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson-seperate but equal / First modern Olympics held in Athens / Beginning of Nobel Prizes (TLI) (GUW) |
| 1900: Publishes "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and other Stories and Essays" (ASS) | 1900:Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams / 8,000 dead in Texas hurricane / McKinley reelected president / New York subway begins construction / The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz is published.(TAH) |
| 1903: | 1903:Wright Brothers make first successful airplane / Henry Ford starts first Ford Motor Company / First World Series (TLI) |
| 1904: | 1904:Russo-Japanese War begins / New York City subway opens (TAH) (GUW) |
| 1909: Daughter Jean dies at Stormfield (ALL) | NAACP founded / plastic is introduced to America / North Pole reached by American explorers (GUW) |
| 1910: Dies in “Stormfield” in Redding, CT (ETL) | Halley's comet visible from Earth (PBS) |
Works Cited
ALL - Emerson, Everett. Mark Twain: A Literary Life. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
ASS - Hitchcock, Bert, Virginia M. Kouidis, Eugene Current-Garcia. American Short Stories. Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Boston: Auburn University, 2002.
ETL - Railton, Stephen, et al. Mark Twain in his Times. 2003. The Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia. 19 March 2003 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html
GUW: Campbell, Donna M. "1835-1910." Timeline: American Literature Sites. 17 March 2003. Gonzagahttp://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1830.htm
IP - Infoplease World History. 2003. Infoplease. 18 March 2003. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001237.html
PBS - Chronology. Mark Twain. 17 March 2003. http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/chronology.html
TAH - Urdang, Laurence. The Timetables of American History. New York, New York City: Touchtone. 1981.
TLI - Presland, Thomas. Bristol, U.K.: Conceive Ltd. 17 March 2003. http://www.timelines.info/history/ages_and_periods/the_age_of_revolution/the_industrial_revolution/
TQ - Schmidt, Barbara. Twain Quotes. 25 March 2003. http://www.twainquotes.com/18770801.html
WBE - World Book Encyclopedia. The History of the World. Chicago, 1995.
WHG - The White House. The Presidents of the United States of America. 17 March 2003. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/