Dorothea dix profile

Dorothea Dix

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    Dororthea Dix

  • Dororthea Dix was born

    Dororthea Dix was born

  • The Lewis and Clark Expidition begins

    The Lewis and Clark Expidition begins

    President Thomas Jefferson sends Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explor the newly bought Louisiana Purchase.

  • Dix ran away from home

    Dororthea ran away from her family home to get away from her parents stress. She went the Dix mansion which her deceased grandfather bought to live with her grandmother.
  • Dix started for first school

    Dix started for first school

    when she was fourteen years old she started her first school for children.
  • Grand opening of the Troy Female Seminary

    Grand opening of the Troy Female Seminary

    The Troy Female Seminary was the first high school for girls.

  • Stephen F. Austin establishes an anerican colony in Texas

  • Dix published the book "Conversations on Common Things; or, guide to knowledge. with questions."

    Dix published the book "Conversations on Common Things; or, guide to knowledge. with questions."

    This book was one of the more popular books that she has written. It was used in schools and households.

  • John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die

    This day is also the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independance.

  • The first school for the blind opens

    This school is founded Samuel Gridley Howe
  • The first handgun with a revolving barrel is made

    The first handgun with a revolving barrel is made

    Samuel Colt makes the 'six shooter' a handgun with a barrel that revolves.

  • American colonists revolt against mexican rule

  • Texas becomes independant

    After winning the Texas revolution, Texas finally got freedom from mexico to become independent.

  • Dorothea Dix goes to England

  • Dix started workind as an advocate for the mentally ill

    This event starts her career with the mentally ill and insane
  • Dix starts to teach sunday schoold in East Cambridge Jail.

    Dix starts to teach sunday schoold in East Cambridge Jail.

    Approched by A Harvard Student who tried to teach sunday schools at the jail but failed and asked her; she accepted the offer.

  • The first modern elevator is created

    Elisha Otis creates the First modern elevator, where it was used in a New York department store.
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    Dix expanded her hospitals in America, Europe, and Japan

    Dorothea expanded her hospitals for the mentally ill in many different countries.
  • First shots are fired at Fort Sumter

    First shots are fired at Fort Sumter

    At 4:30 in the morning someone fires their gun at Fort Sumter and the battle goes on for 34 hours.

  • Dix enters her own hospital for treatment.

    At the age of 79 Dorothea enters her own hospital in Trenton that was built 3 decades earlier.

  • Dorothea Dix dies

    Dorothea Dix died of natural causes in her hospital at Trenton, New Jeresy.