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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Later known as Mark Twain) was born on November 30, 1835. He was the sixth child out of seven that was born to John and Jane Clemens.
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The Clemens family moved to Hannibal, MO.
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Samuels dad, John Clemens passed away due to pneumonia.
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"A Gallant Fireman" was Mark Twains first know sketch that appeared in the Hannibal Journal.
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This was the Spring he boarded a steamboat to New Orleans and had the ambition to be a steamboatman.
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Mark Twain lost his brother, Henry Clemens, this year because of an explosion on the steamboat.
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He got his steamboat pilot license.
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This is the year that Samuel Clemens started using the pen name Mark Twain.
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The Civil War starts and it makes trade along the Mississippi River come to a stop, so his steamboat career is over.
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The Civil War starts and it makes the trade along the Mississippi River stop, so he ends his steamboat career.
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Mark Twain travels to Nevada with his brother Orion.
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He Travels to California, where he settles in San Fransisco.
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Twain marries Olivia Langdon, who becomes an important editor of his work, and their son Langdon is born later that year.
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He moves his family to Connecticut!
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Clara is born, she is the only one of his children to outlive her father.
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He moves his family to Europe because of finances.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson, his last book is published
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Samuel Clemens passed away just like he said he would, he said that he came in with Halley's Comet and he would go out with it. He died a day after Halley's Comet.
