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Born
Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place in the Scottish city of Edinburgh. -
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School
He went to a prestigious college, Stonyhurst College. -
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University career
he began a career in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. -
Marriage
He married with Louise Hawkins. -
London
He moved to be an ophthalmologist. -
A Boer War
He wrote his longest book "A Boer War" -
World War I
He tried to enlist, at the age of fifty-five, as a simple private. In his letter he defends that he is strong and has an audible voice. They rejected it, but it helped with propaganda and with the support of civilian volunteers from the UK. -
History of spiritualism
When one of his sons, Kingsley, died, he began to write a book to which he devoted a lot of time. -
Death
He died in Crowborough, East Sussex, England, aged seventy-one, of a heart attack.