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Samuel Langhorne Clemens is born in Florida, Missouri.
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Mark Twains family moves to Hannibal, Missouri a frequent stop for steamboats on the Mississippi river. Soon Mark Twain would look up to them and wants to be one himself.
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Mark Twains father John Clemens dies, forcing the family into financial trouble.
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At the age of 15 Mark Twain leaves school to get a job as a printer in Hannibal, Missouri.
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Mark Twain begins a 2yr apprenticeship to become a riverboat captain. He get his pen name Mark Twain from this job as it is lingo that refers to the depth of the river. at which the boat is safe to navigate threw.
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Mark Twain's youngest brother Henry dies at the age of 20. Twain personally feels responsible for the death of his brother as he encouraged him to get a job on a steamboat which is where he died from an explosion.
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Twain spends two weeks training in a volunteer Confederate militia before it disbands.
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Twain travels to northern California before deciding to live in San Francisco.
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Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog is published increasing Mark Twain's Profile as a writer.
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Mark Twains first book The Innocents Abroad is published and becomes a best seller.
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Twain marries Olivia Langdon their son Langdon is born later that year.
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Mark Twains book The Gilded Age is published
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Daughter Clara is born, and would go on to outlive Mark Twain.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is published.
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Livy Clemens gives birth to a daughter named Jean.
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Mark Twain publishes Life on the Mississippi a story of his years as a steamboat captain.
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Twain founds his own publishing company, Charles L. Webster & Co.
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In one year Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and a biography of President Ulysses S. Grant.
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Because of financial reasons Mark Twain moves his family to Europe for cheaper living.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson, Twain's last novel, is published. After ten hard years of trying to make it Mark Twains publishing company goes broke leaving Twain practically bankrupt.
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Twain goes on a worldwide tour to earn money to pay back creditors he owes money to.
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Susy dies of meningitis Mark Twain is in Europe and is heart broken and never fully recovers
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Twains wife Livy Clemens dies after a 2 year illness.
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Jean, Twains youngest daughter dies.
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Mark Twain dies in his home in Redding, Connecticut at the age of 74.
