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Mark Twain was born Samuel Longhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri.
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The life of a famous author and his hardships.
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Mark Twain's sister, Margaret, dies when he is three years old.
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Mark Twain moves to Hannibal, Missouri, where he is inspired to later write the fictional books, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These stories take place in a town much like Hannibal, but it is named St. Petersburg.
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Mark Twain's brother, Benjamin, dies when Mark is six.
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Mark Twain's father dies of pneumonia in 1847.
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Mark Twain becomes a printer's apprentice one year after his father's death.
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Mark Twain begins work as a typesetter and gives the Hannibal Journal many humorous sketches and articles.
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Mark Twain left his job as typesetter to work for New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati newspapers.
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Mark Twain lived in Muscatine in the summer of 1855.
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Mark Twain's brother, Henry, dies when Mark is twenty-three. He dies in an explosion of the steamboat, Pennsylvania.
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Mark Twain becomes a steamboat pilot. This job gave him the pseudonym, Mark Twain, which means the water is two fathoms (six feet each) deep.
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Mark Twain's occupation as a steamboat pilot ends due to the American Civil War.
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Mark travels with his brother, Orion, on a stagecoach to visit the Mormon communities in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The American Civil war rages as the bright mind of Mark Twain flourishes.
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Mark Twain finally used the pseudonym, Mark Twain, in a humorous travel account named "Letter From Carson - re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music" with "Mark Twain."
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Mark Twain moved to San Francisco, CA and met other writers such as Bret Harte, Artemus Ward, Dan DeQuille, and a poet named Ina Coolbrith, who may have romanced him.
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Mark Twain becomes famous with his short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
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Mark Twain travels to modern day Hawaii and serves as a reporter for the Sacramento Union, where he made the basis of his first lectures.
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A local newspaper funds Mark Twain's trip to the Mediterranean Sea, where he compiles a list of travel letters.
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Mark Twain is invited into the Scroll and Key society of Yale University.
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Mark Twain met his future wife, Olivia Langdon, but she refused his first marriage proposal.
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Mark Twain compiles travel letters from his trip to the Mediterranean Sea to make the book, Innocents Abroad.
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Mark Twain and Olivia Langdon happily settle down in Buffalo, New York.
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Mark Twain and his family stay at Olivia's sister's home, Quarry Farm, for the summers of 1870 through 1880.
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Mark Twain gladly marries Olivia Langdon after proposing a second time. They were married in Elmira, New York. Mark Twain met many abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and William Dean Howells.
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Mark Twaina and Olivia Langdon's thirty-four year marriage.
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Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, is born.
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Mark Twain moves to Hartford, Connecticut and begins construction on his new home.
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Mark Twain's daughter, Clara is born.
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Olivia's sister, Susan, builds a study separated from the house for Mark Twain to use.
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Mark Twain's time in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Mark Twain's first novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is published and released to the public.
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Mark Twain's daughter, Jean, is born.
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Mark Twain visits Europe again, compiling another set of travel letters to make this A Tramp Abroad.
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Mark Twain publishes and releases his second novel, The Prince and the Pauper.
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Mark Twain publishes his third novel, Life on the Mississippi.
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Mark Twain publishes his fourth novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Mark Twain publishes his fifth novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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Mark Twain's mother, Jane, dies when Mark is fifty-four.
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Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, dies.
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Mark Twain's brother, Orion, dies when Mark is sixty-two.
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Mark Twain's sister, Pamela, dies when Mark is fifty-six.
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Thomas Edison visits Mark Twain and films him, using the footage in the two reel film, The Prince and the Pauper.
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Mark Twain's daughter, Jean, dies.
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Mark Twain dies on April 21, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut. He dies of a heart attack.
