Bret Harte

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/05/1836	History Events	Jan 5, Davy Crockett arrived in Texas just in time to die at the Alamo.
03/23/1836	HISTORY EVENT	Mar 23, Coin Press was invented by Franklin Beale
08/25/1836	BIRTH	He was born in Albany, New York, on August 25, 1836. He was named Francis Brett Hart after his great-grandfather Francis Brett. his father changed the last name from hart to harte
10/01/1837	HISTORY EVENTS!!!!	Oct 31, The collision of river boats Monmouth & Trement on Mississippi left 300 dead
12/25/1837	HISTTORY EVENT!!!	Dec 25, In the Battle of Okeechobee US forces defeated the Seminole Indians
01/26/1838	HISTORY EVENT!!!	Jan 26, Tennessee became the 1st state to prohibit alcohol
04/27/1838	HISTORY EVENT!!!	Apr 27, Fire destroyed half of Charleston
03/23/1840	HISTORY EVENT!!!!	Mar 23, Draper took 1st successful photo of the Moon
05/01/1841	HISTORY EVENT!!!	May 1, The 1st emigrant wagon train left Independence, Missouri, for California.
05/10/1842	HISTORY EVENTS!!!	Mount St. Helens began 15 years of intermittent eruptions and then became relatively quiet for 123 years.
06/27/1845	His father, Henry Hart dies	background of his father. Henry Hart, was the son of an immigrant, Bernard Hart, who moved to America and became rich. inished his college education but didn't receive a diploma due to the fact that he owed a ninety dollar graduation fee. His parents met during a visit to the Brett's home and married in 1830
03/27/1847	Age 11	By the age of eleven, Bret had published a number of poems.
07/24/1847	HISTORY EVENT!!!	Britain passed a Vagrancy Act to combat begging as famine swept Ireland.
02/24/1848	HISTORY EVENT!!!	Feb 24, King Louis-Philippe abdicated and the 2nd French republic was declared
06/17/1849	HISTORY EVENT!!!!	Jun 17, Russian troops invaded Hungary
08/27/1853	moved to california	he traveled on a steamship to California, a trip during which they encountered many probleams, storms at sea, revolutions, and shipwreck. These experiences helped to color Harte's later writings
08/25/1854	first year in california	Bret drifted from job to job until he became settled. He tutored the children of ranchers and even rode shotgun for a stage coach.
06/28/1862	Married Anna Griswold	Harte married Anna Griswold on August 11, 1862, thet were married in the small town of San Rafael, California
04/25/1868	Editor of newly founded overland monthly
03/24/1870	secretary of u.s mint	He served as Secretary of the U.S. California Branch Mint before moving to New York in 1871 and later to Boston.
04/25/1871	Moved to NEW YORK!!!!!!!!!
04/25/1871	New Job "Atlantic Monthly"	where he contracted with the publisher of The Atlantic Monthly for an annual salary of $10,000, "an unprecedented sum at the time
04/25/1872	Writes playes with Sam Clemens !!!!! (Ah Shin)	but it eventually led to a bitter falling out between the two.
02/01/1878	United States Consul	Harte was appointed to the position of United States Consul. in Krefeld, Germany
03/28/1880	moved to Glosgow	He then moved from krefeld, germany to glosgrow, uk
07/27/1885	settled down !!	in 1885 he settled down in london. but he never stopped writing wghen he got older.
01/20/1887	HISTORY EVENT!!!	Jan 20, The U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
06/30/1891	HISTORY EVENT!!!!	Jul 30, Great Britain declared territories in Southern Africa up to the Congo to be within their sphere of influence.
06/14/1893	HISTORY EVENT!!!!	Jun 14, Philadelphia observed the first Flag Day.
05/28/1896	HISTORY EVENT!!!!	Budweiser introduced Michelob beer as "draught beer for connoisseurs."
06/21/1899	HISTORY EVENTS!!!!	Jun 21, Guam became a US territory
02/15/1900	HISTORY EVENT!!!	Feb 15, The British threatened to use natives in the Boer War fight
04/25/1902	Death of Francis Bret Harte	He died in England in 1902 of throat cancer and is buried at Frimley. his wife then died on August 2, 1920, they were married for over forty years