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Mark Twain was Born
Mark Twain aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida and was the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. -
Family moves to Hannibal
This move to a riverbank town probably is what motivated Twain's love for the Mississippi River. -
Twain's Father Died
Mark Twain's aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens father dies making the family go through a time of financial hardship. -
Mark Twain begins working as a Printer
After his father died Samuel's mother needed a second source of income so Mark Twain took a job as a apprentice printer at 12 years old. -
Twain's brother died
Twain's brother tragically died in an explosion on the steamboat Pennslyvania. He was only 20 years old and was the youngest in the Clemens family. -
The Civil War
The Civil War starts and forces Twain to end his steamboat career. After that Twain spent 2 whole weeks training in a volunteer Confederate militia before was broken up. -
Twain goes to Nevada
Twain went to the West with his brother Orion. He tried to mine and did a few other things before he settled on reporting for a magazine in Virginia City, Nevada. -
Twain visits Calaveras County
Twain visits the famous Calaveras County before deciding on living in San Fransisco. This is where he got his material for the "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" short story. -
The 'Jumping Frog" short stpry is published
Twain's short story "Jumping Frog" is published and is very successful. -
Twain meets his future wife
Twain meets Olivia Langdon, who is a sister of a friend of his and he likes he right away. He later marries her. -
Mark Twain's first book
Mark Twain’s first book was published, The Innocents Abroad, and almost instantly became a bestseller. -
Mark Twain gets married
Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens marries Olivia Langdon. -
Twains Children and move
Twain had a son and then he took his family and moved to Connecticut where his daughter was born. Sadly that same year his son died of diphtheria. -
Twain publishes : The Gilded Age
Twain published The Gilded Age and one of his most successful inventions, the self-pasting scrapbook, in the same year 1873. -
Clara Clemens Born
Cara Celemens was born and was the only child that outlived her father. -
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer was published and was one of Mark Twain's most successful books. -
Life on the Mississippi
Twain publishes his book Life on the Mississippi, which is a memior of his years of a steamboat pilot. -
Twain's starts his own publishing company
Twain starts his own publishing company and this through later events was not such a good idea financially. -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain published one of his most know books The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and in the same year, he published a biography of President Ulysses S. Grant. -
Twain and his family move to Europe
Twain moves his family to Europe because of financial problems. -
Twain's last novel
Twain published his last novel, Pudd'nhead Wilson after his publishing company goes bankrupt Twain decided to do a world tour to pay back the people he owed money to. -
Susy Clemens dies
Susy, Mark Twain's oldest and favorite daughter die of meningitis at the age of 24. -
Olivia Langdon Clemens dies
Mark Twain's wife dies after a serious illness that was going on for 2 years. -
Jean Clemens dies
Jean Clemens, Twain's youngest daughter, dies from severe epilepsy. -
Mark Twain dies
He died of a heart attack at home.
