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Louis Braille was born on January 4th, 1809 in Coupvray, France.
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Louis loses his sight at age three because he was stabbed in the eye with a knife when playing in his father's shop.
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Father Coupvray gives Louis an education and teaches him about religion when he becomes a priest at a local church.
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Louis moves to Paris to attend the Royal Institute for Blind Youth.
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After learning Barbiers' night-writing system, Louis makes improvements, leading to the development of his own system.
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This was meant for the French military, and Louis experiments with it. It used to have a twelve dot cell, but a person's finger could not feel all the dots at once. Therefore, he changed it to a six dot cell.
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His system is completely developed, a six dot cell based on normal spelling, and it's resented to Dr. Pignier, the director of the Royal Institute for Blind Youth.
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Louis graduates and becomes a teacher for other blind students.
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Louis creates his first book in braille and uses it to teach and describe his system.
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Louis becomes a full time teacher and uses his system, which is known as Braille in honor of him, to teach his pupils.
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Louis publishes his system that enables the blind to read.
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Doctors diagnose Louis with tuberculosis at age twenty-six.
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Louis invents raphigraphy, a raised dots in the shape of letters, so that those that aren't blind can read it too.
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Louis and his friend create a asy to print Braille faster.
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Louis insists that his old school is finally moved to a healthier facility.
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Louis dies from tuberculosis two days after his birthday.
