Helen Keller's "The Story of My Life" Timeline of Events

By nmarino5

  • Birth

    Helen Keller is born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama.

  • Disability

    Helen Keller loses her sight and hearing due to illness at the age of 19 months.

  • Meeting Anne Sullivan

    Helen meets her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. She describes this day as the most important date she remembers in all her life.
  • Perkins Institute for the Blind

    Perkins Institute for the Blind

    Keller attends the Perkins Institute for the Blind. Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education.

  • Wright-Humason School for the Deaf

    Keller moves to New York and attends the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf.

  • Cambridge School

    Helen enters the Cambridge School for Young Ladies to prepare for Radcliffe.

  • Radcliffe College

    Helen is admitted to Radcliffe College at Harvard University.

  • Graduation

    Keller graduates from Radcliffe at the age of 24

  • Death

    Helen Keller dies in her sleep at her home in Easton, CT.