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He's born in Florida, Missouri. Andrew Jackson is President. Halley’s comet appears.
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Sam's father dies. His mother stops making him go to school.
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Sam works for his brother's newspaper in Hannibal. He makes up funny stories so that people subscribe to the newspaper.
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When Sam was a boy, every boy's dream was to become a steamboat pilot. In 1857 Sam's dream comes true. At the time a steamboat pilot got paid more in a month than the Vice President got paid in a year. This is where he first hears the term "Mark Twain" used by the person checking the river depth to mean "it's deep enough."
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Sam uses the pen name Mark Twain when he publishes the story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. This is the story that will make him famous.
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Mark goes to the Sandwich Islands. He later gives a series of talks on his experience.
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Sam/Twain gets married to Olivia Langdon. Sam/Twain is 35.
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Langdon, Sam/Twain's first son, dies as an infant. Twain publishes a book called Roughing It.
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Clara, Sam/Twain's daughter is born. This is Sam/Twain's second child.
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Tom Sawyer is published. Twain starts to write The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published. Twain is 50.
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Sam/Twain's daughter Suzy dies. Sam/Twain is 61.
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Sam/Twain's brother Orion dies. Sam/Twain is 62.
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Sam dies as Mark Twain in Connecticut of heart disease. Halley's Comet appears again.
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100 years after his death, his autobiography is published. Twain requested it that way. (this is not in the book)
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This timeline has a lot of "1 Jan" dates. I did that intentionally. That means that the book I used did not say the date, only the year.
The book I used was The Trouble Begins at 8, by Sid Fleischman.
The pictures were from Wikipedia. Autobiography cover picture from Amazon.
