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Meg is born
Margaret March, the eldest daughter was born 16 years before the story begins -
Jo is born
Josephine March, the second oldest daughter, who is a year younger than Meg, was born 15 years before the story begins -
Beth is born
Elizabeth March being the second youngest was born 13 years before the start of the story -
Amy is born
Amy, the youngest was born 1 year after Beth and 12 years before the story begins -
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the American civil war
This is when the American civil war was being fought. The March sisters' father joins the war in 1862 and leaves because of pneumonia in 1863. -
The book starts
This is the year that I came up with that seems reasonable for the book to start in. The civil war started in 1861 and it could have taken some time for their father to be recruited to the army. In the book it says that it will be their first Christmas without their father therefore he was recently recruited. -
Beth gets sick
While Meg gets distracted from her job as a nanny to a sick baby, Beth decides to visit them and help. The baby dies and she catches the sickness. The doctor later tells us that it is scarlet fever. She spends lots of time getting sicker and sicker until Mr. March comes home and she miraculously gets better! -
Meg gets married
Being the eldest daughter, Meg gets married at the age of 18 to Laurie Laurences tutor, John Brooke. -
Meg has twins
Daisy and Demi (boy and girl) are Megs first and only children that she has with John Brooke. Daisy is an angel child and Demi is a nightmare but they both grow up safe and sound -
Beth dies
After recovering from scarlet fever Beth relapses 5 years later, only a few days after Jo comes home.This time the fever gets the best of her. RIP Beth. -
Laurie proposes
Before he leaves to go and see Amy abroad, Laurie proposes to Jo shortly after she comes home. Jo refuses, not being in love with him, all the while thinking of poor Beth, who she assumes is in love with Laurie when in reality she is just getting sicker. -
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Amy goes abroad
Because of her amazing manners, Amy's rich aunt Carrol invites her to go abroad. -
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Jo goes away
A little while after Amy goes abroad, Jo and her mother notice Beth become sadder and more reserved. Jo decides that Beth has a crush on Laurie and starts to worry that he is in love with Jo. To try and get him to fall in love with Beth, she decides to leave. But while she is away she meets a German professor named Friedrich Bhaer. And quickly begins to like the poor old professor. -
Amy falls in love
When Laurie comes to visit her out of anger of Jo's rejection, Amy falls in love with him. They spend the next month together until Laurie proposes and they elope so that Laurie can bring Amy home with her aunts permission. -
Amy has a kid
Shortly after coming home from Europe, Amy and Laurie have a little girl and name her Beth as a memorial to Amys recently deceased older sister. -
Mr. Bhaer comes to see Jo
When Jo is in her 30s She gets sad because she assumes that she will live alone and be a housewife her whole life. But when Mr. Bhaer decides to come visit her, she finds that she is in love and spends as much time with him as she can. -
Jo gets married
After Mr. Bhaer proposes to her, Jo gets married and inherits a mansion that was owned by her newly deceased aunt. She transformed it into a school for boys and runs it with her husband. -
Jo has kids
In the book it is never really specified when Jo had her kids but she had 2 boys named Rob and Theadore (Teddy for short)