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Mark Twain aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida and was the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens.
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This move to a riverbank town probably is what motivated Twain's love for the Mississippi River.
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Mark Twain's aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens father dies making the family go through a time of financial hardship.
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After his father died Samuel's mother needed a second source of income so Mark Twain took a job as a apprentice printer at 12 years old.
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Twain's brother tragically died in an explosion on the steamboat Pennslyvania. He was only 20 years old and was the youngest in the Clemens family.
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The Civil War starts and forces Twain to end his steamboat career. After that Twain spent 2 whole weeks training in a volunteer Confederate militia before was broken up.
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Twain went to the West with his brother Orion. He tried to mine and did a few other things before he settled on reporting for a magazine in Virginia City, Nevada.
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Twain visits the famous Calaveras County before deciding on living in San Fransisco. This is where he got his material for the "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" short story.
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Twain's short story "Jumping Frog" is published and is very successful.
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Twain meets Olivia Langdon, who is a sister of a friend of his and he likes he right away. He later marries her.
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Mark Twain’s first book was published, The Innocents Abroad, and almost instantly became a bestseller.
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Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens marries Olivia Langdon.
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Twain had a son and then he took his family and moved to Connecticut where his daughter was born. Sadly that same year his son died of diphtheria.
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Twain published The Gilded Age and one of his most successful inventions, the self-pasting scrapbook, in the same year 1873.
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Cara Celemens was born and was the only child that outlived her father.
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Tom Sawyer was published and was one of Mark Twain's most successful books.
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Twain publishes his book Life on the Mississippi, which is a memior of his years of a steamboat pilot.
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Twain starts his own publishing company and this through later events was not such a good idea financially.
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Twain published one of his most know books The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and in the same year, he published a biography of President Ulysses S. Grant.
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Twain moves his family to Europe because of financial problems.
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Twain published his last novel, Pudd'nhead Wilson after his publishing company goes bankrupt Twain decided to do a world tour to pay back the people he owed money to.
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Susy, Mark Twain's oldest and favorite daughter die of meningitis at the age of 24.
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Mark Twain's wife dies after a serious illness that was going on for 2 years.
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Jean Clemens, Twain's youngest daughter, dies from severe epilepsy.
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He died of a heart attack at home.
