Mark Twain

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  • Birth of Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri.

  • Death of Mark Twain's Father

    Twain's father, John Marshall Clemens, died from pneumonia. After his death, the family fell into financial hardship.

  • "Jim Smiley And His Jumping Frog"

    The short story "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" gets published, which rises Twain's profile as a writer.

  • Mark Twain Gets Married

    Mark Twain got married to Olivia "Livy" Langdon.

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Published

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Published

  • Death of Olivia Langdon Clemens

    Twain's wife died in Florence, Italy from congestive heart failure.

  • Death of Mark Twain

    Mark Twain died in Redding, Connecticut from a heart attack.