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Samuel Clemes was born in Florida, Missouri.
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When he was four years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri.
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On this date Samuel Clemens moved into the house that is now known as his childhood home.
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Family is pushed into poverty and is forced to move in above a drug store.
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On this date Samuel Clemens father who was a judge, died and they moved back to his childhood home.
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Sam Clemens apprenticed to Joseph Ament of Missouri Courier newspaper.
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Sam begins work for his brother at the Western Union Newspaper
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Wrote "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" for an issue of issue of Carpet-Bag of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Mark Twain Begins Two-Year Apprenticeship to Become a River Pilot. While there he adapts his pen name, Mark Twain.
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On this date Mark Twain's brother Henry Clemens dies while working on a steamboat.
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Mark Twain moves out West to become a miner. Little did he know that his failure at that would lead to some of his best works forever securing his spot as an American icon.
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Not being successful at mining, Mark Twain took a job as a reporter for the Virginia City, (Nev.) Daily Territorial Enterprise
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Clemens signed a humorous travel account "Letter From Carson – re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music" with "Mark Twain"
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In this year Mark Twain moved to San Fransico to become a writer.
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He published the short story, "The Jumping Frog." The stroy appears in the New York Saturday Press and interest in Twain's work rises.
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In this year Mark Twain took a trip to Europe and the Holy Land.
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Mark Twain publishes his most famous book, The Innocents Abroad.
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In this month Mark Twain marries Olivia Langdon. She was his friend's sister.
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In this year he published perhaps his other most famous book, "Roughing It." This book depicted scenes from his journey out West.
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In these years Mark Twain publishes, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson is published in this year.
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Mark Twains Wife Dies.
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Mark Twain dies an American Legend for his writings and a hero in many people's eyes.