Robert Stevenson

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    Robert Stevenson

    Born in Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Robert was baptized

  • receives toy theater

    as birthday present from his uncle
  • Starts attending Edinburgh Acadameny

    only for 15 months
  • Start of five month tour of Europe with parents

    2 months in Mentone in the south of France, then to Genoa, Naples, Rome , Florence, Venice, and innsbruck
  • Returns to Edinburgh

  • Published The Pentalnd Rising

  • elected to speculative society

  • with father on yacht pharos

    visits Orkney and Shetland
  • Doesn't believe in Christianity

    Tells his father this
  • meets W.E. Henley

    At Royal Infirmary
  • Passes final exam

  • Sails from Greenock on the devonia headed to New York

    on the journey finishes “The Story of a Lie”
  • Publication of memories and Portraits

  • Robert Louis Stevenson dies