Mark Twain

  • Birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

    Birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
    November 30, 1835, Florida, MO
  • Samuel and family move to Hannibal, Missouri

  • Mark twain's father dies

  • Twain works as a printer

  • Becomes apprentice river pilot

  • Adopts pen name Mark Twain

  • Civil War causes Twain steamboat career to end

  • Twain travels to Nevade and becomes a reporter

  • Twain goes to CA and settles in San Fransisco

  • "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" gets punblished

  • Twain's first book "The Innocenece Abroad" is publsihed

  • Twain gets married and has a son

  • Twain moves to Hartford, Connecticut

  • Daughter born, son dies

  • Daughter Clara is born

  • Tom Sawyer is published

  • Daughter Jean is born

  • Twain founds publishing company

  • Twain and fmily move to Europe

  • Daughter Susy dies

  • Twain;s wife dies

  • Moves to New York and writes autobiography

  • Daughter Jean dies

  • Death of Samuel Langhorne Clemens/Mark Twain

    Death of Samuel Langhorne Clemens/Mark Twain
    April 21, 1910, Redding, CT