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Charles Dickens

  • Birth

    Son of John Dickens and Elizabeth Dickens.
  • The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

    His first destacable book
  • The day he got married

    He got married with Catherine Thompson Hogarth.
  • Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress

    The day he published this book.
  • His first son (Charles Culliford Boz Dickens )

    Charles Culliford Boz Dickens was the first child of his marriage, after him, they had nine more.
  • A Christmas Carol

    The day he published this book.
  • Staplehurst railway shock

    On June 9, 1865, while returning from France to see Ellen Ternan, Dickens suffered an accident, the famous Staplehurst railway collision, in which the first seven carriages of the train fell from a bridge that was being repaired. The only first-class car that did not fall was the one where Dickens was.
  • Death

    He died when he was 58 years old.