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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh
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Family move to 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
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Start of five-month tour of Europe with his parents and Cummy; two months in Mentone in the south of France, then to Genoa, Naples, Rome, Florence, Venice, Innsbruck.
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Starts school at Robert Thomson’s private school in Frederick Street (until 1867)
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Starts studying at Edinburgh University
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Elected to Speculative Society
With father on the yacht Pharos, visiting Orkney and Shetland (described in “The Education of an Engineer” [1888]) -
Announces to his father that he doesn’t believe in the Christian religion; quarrel
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“A Lodging for the Night”, his first published short story, appears in Temple Bar
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Moves to the Tubbs Hotel, East Oakland. Has a hemorrhage and is moved to Fanny’s house nearby so that she can nurse him
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Leaves Pitlochry for Braemar where he stays for almost two months. Here he writes the opening of “The Travelling Companion” (a Doubles story later destroyed) and begins work on The Sea Cook (later to become Treasure Island [1883])
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Publication of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Goes to Manasquan, New Jersey, staying at Union House (an inn) with his mother, where they spend much time with Stevenson’s friend from his French bohemian days, Will Lowe, and his French wife Berthe
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Signs the deed for the purchase of Vailima Estate, Apia, Samoa
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Finishes The Ebb-Tide; sends first ten chapters to Sidney Colvin in London
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Dies of a cerebral hemorrhage
Buried on the summit of Mount Vaea on Upolu, Samoa. The Samoans (led by Lloyd) cleared a path to the top of the mountain overnight in order to be able to bury RLS there
