Mark Twain

By Yasser.Essam

  • Mark Twain's Birth

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens is born in Florida, Missouri, the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens.

  • Family Moves to Hannibal

  • Death of Twain's Father

  • Twain Takes Work as Printer

  • Twain piloted riverboats along the Mississippi for four years

  • Rise of Civil War

    The Civil War breaks out. Trade along the Mississippi River is halted, forcing an end to Twain's steamboat career. Twain spends two weeks training in a volunteer Confederate militia before it disbands

  • Mark Twain publishes "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

  • Mark Twain publishes "The Innocents Abroad "

  • Twain Weds

    Twain marries Olivia Langdon, who becomes an important editor of his work. Their son Langdon is born later that year.

  • Twain Publishes "The Gilded Age"

  • Twain Publishes "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

  • Twain publishes "Life on the Mississippi"

  • Twain Founds Publishing Company

    Twain founds his own publishing company, Charles L. Webster & Co. (named after his nephew and co-owner Charles L. Webster). It turns out to be a bad financial move—the company's struggles will eventually ruin his family's finances.

  • Twain publishes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

  • Twain publishes "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

  • Twain publishes his last novel "Pudd'nhead Wilson"

  • The Death of Mark Twain

    Mark Twain dies at the age of 74 at his home in Redding, Connecticut.