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Mark Twain became a river pilot after doing a two-year course.
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Mark Twain was born November 30, 1935 in Florida. His real name is Samuel Clemens
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When Mark Twain was elven, his father John Clemens died of pneumonia
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When Mark Twain was fifteen he lived school and he started to work as a printer in Hannibal.
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Henry , his brother, is killed tragically at the age of 20 in an explosion on the steamboat Pennsylvania. The devastated Twain feels responsible for Henry's death the rest of his life.
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The Civil War breaks out. Trade along the Mississippi River is halted, forcing an end to Twain's steamboat career. Twain spends two weeks training in a volunteer Confederate militia before it disbands.
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Twain Travels West In an adventure later chronicled in the book Roughing It, Twain travels to Nevada with his brother Orion, who had been named the secretary to the territorial governor.
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Mark Twain publishes "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County"
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Mark Twain travels to Hawaii as a reporter for San Francisco's newspaper. When he returns to the mainland a few months later, he gives his first public lecture. It's a hit.
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Mark Twain meets his wife, Olivia.
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Mark Twain published the "The Innocent Abroad"
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Mark and Olivia had a child
