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Charles was born on Febuary 7th to John and Elizabeth Dickens.
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John Dickens arrested and sent to the Marshalsea prison. Charles Dickens worked at the Warren's Blacking Factory
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Charles met his firs love, Maria Beadnell
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He broke up with Maria
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Becomes editor of Bentley's Miscellany.
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Meets John Forster, who becomes a lifelong confidant and his first biographer.
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Birth of first child, Charles Culliford Boz D
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Oliver Twist, begins in monthly parts in Bentley's Miscellany.
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His daughter, Kate, is born.
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1840 - Publication of The Old Curiosity Shop begins
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Charles and Catherine travel to America. In the next year Dickens begins work on Martin Chuzzlewit.
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A Christmas Carol is published. One of his most popular stories
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Dickens is involved in the Staplehurst railway accident along with Ellen Ternan and her mother.
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Dickens gives his final public reading. Publication of The Mystery of Edwin Drood begins.
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Charles Dickens dies at Gad's Hill Place.
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