Mark Twain

By davidhalvorson
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    Mark Twain

  • Stops attending school regularly

  • First Womens college in pennsylvania

  • Levi Straus made his first pair of jeans

  • Elder brother Orion returned to Hannibal

  • First U.S. alcohol prohibition

  • Twain Takes Work as Printer

  • Moby Dick Published

  • Death of Twain's Brother

  • Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day

  • US authorizes minting of $3 gold

  • accepted a position in St. Louis. Soon afterwards, rather than settling in St. Louis, Twain proceeded to travel back and forth between New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Iowa, working as a journalist

  • Sam visited Washington, DC

  • Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created

  • US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship

  • 1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston

  • Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas

  • Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia

  • In Cincinnati, Ohio, as assistant in job printing shop

  • Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die

  • American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)

  • Apprentice River Pilot

  • Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state

  • Death of Twain's Brother

  • South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"

  • The Civil War