Harriet Tubman Timeline By marijahni 1820 Harriet Tubman was born 1835 Harriet sustains a head injury that will soon cause throbbing headaches and seizures 1844 Harriet marries John Tubman 1849 Harriet becomes an advocate for the underground railroad and the Women Suffrage Movement 1849 Harriets master dies Sep 17, 1849 Harriet Tubman flees to the North to escape slave status 1850 Harriet risks being recaptured to help her family escape Period: 1850 to 1861 Harriet saved as many as 200 hundred slaves and took them to Canada 1862 Harriet begins her work in the civil war as a nurse Jun 2, 1863 Harriet commands soldiers at Combahee River in South Carolina on an expedition that frees 700 slaves 1869 Harriet marries Civil War veteran and former slave Nelson Davis Mar 10, 1913 Harriet Tubman died
