Transcendentalism Timeline By itsmillertime Apr 4, 1780 William Ellery Channing is born Nov 29, 1799 Amos Bronson Alcott Born May 9, 1800 John Brown is born May 25, 1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson Born Jul 4, 1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne is born Jul 12, 1817 Henry David Thoreau Born Mar 15, 1832 Elizabeth Peabody publishes First Steps To The Study Of History Sep 9, 1836 Emerson Publishes Nature Mar 15, 1845 Margaret Fuller Publishes "Woman In The Nineteenth Century" Jun 15, 1845 Thoreau begins his stay at "Walden's Pond Dec 25, 1846 Emerson's Poems Published Mar 16, 1854 Thoreau's Walden Published Mar 16, 1859 John Brown's Raid May 6, 1862 Henry David Thoreau dies in Concord May 9, 1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne dies in Plymouth Jul 24, 1874 Emerson's Home Burns Down brings him to create new famous poetry Apr 27, 1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson dies in Concord Mar 16, 1890 Emily Dicksinson's First Poetry is Published May 9, 1911 Thomas Higginson dies in Massacheussetts with the Transcendentalism Movement