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Robert was born
He was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh and was given the full name of Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson. -
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Robert Louis Stevenson's timeline
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First School
Robert's family moves to 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh where he attends school for the first time at Mr. Henderson's Preparatory School. -
Robert's Education
Robert Louis Stevenson attended Edinburgh University (EU) at the age of seventeen where he then majored in civil engineering and went on to pursue the study in law. -
Speculative Society
Robert was Elected to Speculative Society which is and Scottish Enlightenment society dedicated to public speaking and literary composition. he attends his first meeting in march -
Paris
Visits Paris returns to Edinburgh, publishes “Ordered South” in Macmillan’s Magazine, publishes “Victor Hugo’s Romances” in Cornhill Magazine. -
His Traveling and Adventures
Travels from London to Glasgow Sails from Greenock on the Devonia, bound for New York; on the journey finishes “The Story of a Lie” (1879) Arrives in New York; spends the night in a boarding house Starts train journey from New Jersey Arrives in Monterey. RLS later writes about the journey to California in The Amateur Emigrant (1895). The first part of The Amateur Emigrant was ready to be published but was withdrawn in 1880. The second part was published as “Across the Plains” in 1883 -
Roberts relationship
In 1875 he meet a woman Fanny Osbourne when the couple begin relations. later on getting married. -
The Novels
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote at least fourteen novels in those, Dr. Jekle and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekle and Mr. Hyde is an exciting mystery about a mad man eager to show it's darker half. -
Death of a Child
Robert and his wife Fanny conceived a boy, Thomas Stevenson who was a pioneering Scottish lighthouse designer. Thomas died May 8th resulting in Louis, Fanny, Lloyd, and Margret Stevenson to sail for New York, spending the winter in Saranac Lake on August 22nd. -
Shipping off
After awhile the Robert and his family charter the schooner Casco (ship/boat) sailing out of San Francisco Bay to the South Seas. -
Vailima Estate
RLS purchases the Vailima Estate on the island of Upolu, Samoa. -
Published Work
Between 1891 and 1893 The South Seas, The Bottle Imp, The Beach of Falesa, The Wrecker, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa, Across the Plains With Other Memories and Essays, Island Nights’ Entertainment, Catriona was published by London New all the way to being published by David Balfour. -
the Death of Robert
December 3 Stevenson suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and dies. -
Robert's daughter's death
In the almost summer on May 14, Margaret Stevenson dies in Edinburgh. -
Roberts Wife's Death
On February 19 Fanny Stevenson Robert's wife dies in Santa Barbara, California.
