Dates to 1800 - a timeline

Dates 1800-1850 - a timeline

Dates 1850-1900 - a timeline (this page)

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1850: March 16..Boston, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields; May...Lenox, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne moves family to Tanglewood cottage; U.S.: Emerson publishes Representative Men; June...New York: Harper's Magazine begins publication; July 9....Washington, D.C.: Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes President, signs the Compromise of 1850, supported by Pierce but not by abolitionists; July 19...Fire Island, N.Y.: Margaret Fuller dies in shipwreck; Thoreau, sent by Emerson, can't find remains; Aug. 5...Stockbridge, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne meets Herman Melville at a picnic; England: Charles Dickens publishes David Copperfield; England: Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes Sonnets from the Portuguese; Aug. 28...Weimar, Germany: Wagner's Lohengrin performed (Wagner still in hiding in Switzerland after German revolution fails); Sept. 9...U.S.: California admitted as 31st state; U.S.: Aeta Life Insurance Company issues its first policies; Buffalo, N.Y.: American Express formed; San Francisco: Levi Strauss & Co. founded; Washington, D.C.: Emmanuel Leutze finishes painting Washington Crosses the Delaware, (destroyed in Germany in World War II, but a second version is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); England: Francis Dalton invents the teletype; Brooklyn, N.Y.: 16 English sparrows imported to control insects
1851: March 11...Milan: Verdi performs Rigoletto; April...Lenox, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The House of the Seven Gables; May 20...Lenox, Mass.: Rose Hawthorne born to Nathaniel and Sophia; Lenox, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne writes his last tale, "Feathertop"; Pittsfield, Mass.: Herman Melville dedicates Moby-Dick to Nathaniel Hawthorne; November..Boston, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls; Aug. 12...U.S.: Isaac Singer patents sewing machine; later buys out Howe; Aug. 22...England: first America's Cup races; Sept. 18...New York: New York Times founded; San Jose, Ca.: San Jose Mercury founded; November....West Newton, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne moves family to home of Horace Mann; December..Boston, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales; U.S.: Treaty of Fort Laramie opens West to settlers; England: Great International Exposition, first world's fair, opens in Crystal Palace; Galveston, Texas: Gail Borden invents evaporated milk; Boston: first YMCA opens in U.S.
1852: June..Concord, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne moves family into The Wayside, bought from Bronson Alcott; June 5...U.S.: Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin; July..Boston, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Blithedale Romance, based on Brook Farm experience; July...New York: Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Louisa dies in steamboat explosion; September..Boston, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Life of Franklin Pierce, Democratic candidate campaign biography; November....Washington, D.C.: Nathaniel Hawthorne's friend, Franklin Pierce, elected 14th president of U.S.; U.S.: Elisha Otis invents first safe elevator
1853: Jan. 11..West Newton, Mass.: Mrs. Elizabeth Peabody, Sophia's mother, dies; September..Boston, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes Tanglewood Tales; March..Washington, D.C.: Pres. Franklin Pierce appoints Nathaniel Hawthorne Consul in Liverpool, England; July....Concord, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne moves family to Liverpool, England; he assumes office August 1; U.S.: Stephen Foster writes song "My Old Kentucky Home"; George Cayley flies glider; Japan: Perry opens trade with U.S.; England: Dickens publishes Bleak House
1854: July 6...U.S.: Republican party founded; August 9....Concord, Mass.: Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden; Oct. 28....Boston, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse 2nd ed. published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields; Washington, D.C.: President Pierce gets into trouble with Ostend Manifesto (it threatened Spain that U.S. would seize Cuba); England: Dickens publishes Hard Times
1855: U.S.: Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass; U.S.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes The Song of Hiawatha; England: Alexander Parkes invents celluloid; Germany: Bunsen invents burner
1856: November..Liverpool, England: Herman Melville visits Nathaniel Hawthorne; Europe: Crimean War ends between Russia and British-French forces
1857: May...Liverpool, England: again, briefly, Melville meets Nathaniel Hawthorne; Fall..Liverpool: Ada Shepard becomes governess, tutor to Hawthorne children; October....England: Nathaniel Hawthorne leaves position as American Consul in Liverpool; U.S.: Slavery protected by U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision; Henry Bessemer and William Kelly independently invent Bessemer furnace; U.S.: Depression started by economic panic; U.S.: Mark Twain becomes apprentice pilot on Mississippi River
1858: January...France; Rome, Italy: Nathaniel Hawthorne and family travel and fill notebooks; May-October....Florence, Italy: Nathaniel Hawthorne and family live happily in villa; Donati's Comet is seen; Mar. 24...Concord, Mass.: Elizabeth (Beth) Alcott dies at home, buried in Sleepy Hollow; July...Concord, Mass.: Alcotts move into Orchard House; U.S.: First transatlantic cable laid; U.S.: Lincoln-Douglas debates; Russia: Czar Alexander II frees serfs; U.S.: Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
1859: June...Italy: Nathaniel Hawthorne moves family to England to finish writing The Marble Faun; Titusville, Pa.: first oil well flows; Feb. 3...Concord, Mass.: Thoreau's father dies and he takes over the family pencil-making business; Harper's Ferry, Va. [Now Harpers Ferry, W. Va.]: John Brown leads abolitionist raid on arsenal; Oct. 30...Concord, Mass.: Thoreau speaks in favor of John Brown; England: George Eliot publishes Adam Bede; Peking, China: Summer Palace burns; Boston: Women's Rights Convention
1860: February...London: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Transformation published; Concord, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne moves family back to The Wayside; March...Boston, Mass.: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (entitled Transformation in England) published; April 3..Concord, Mass.: Franklin Sanborn arrested briefly for having supplied arms to John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, refusing to testify before the U.S. Senate, and fleeing to Canada; U.S. agents are chased out of town by angry Concord citizens; May 23..Concord, Mass.: Anna Alcott (type for Meg in Little Women) marries John Pratt; U.S.: Dr. Dio Lewis introduces a fad for calisthenics and gymnastics; U.S.: Pony Express begins, St. Louis to California
1861: Feb. 9...Richmond: Confederate States of America formed; April 12....Charleston, S.C.: Civil War begins; April 19...Concord, Mass.: troops called out for another war; June....New Haven, Conn.: Yale awards first Ph.D.; July 10...Cambridge, Mass.: Fanny Appleton Longfellow dies in fire; England: George Eliot publishes Silas Marner; England: Dickens publishes Great Expectations
1862: Jan. 24...New York: Edith Wharton born; May 6....Concord, Mass.: (255 Main St.) Thoreau dies of tuberculosis; Hawthorne attends funeral May 9; April....Washington, D.C.: Nathaniel Hawthorne visits Bridge and Lincoln, in July publishes "Chiefly about War Matters," an essay on Civil War; Paris: Victor Hugo publishes Les Miserables; December..Washington, D.C.: Louisa May Alcott serves as nurse
1863: Jan. 1....U.S.: Emancipation Proclamation takes effect; Jan. 23...Concord, Mass.: Louisa May Alcott returns from war nursing, ill wth typhoid fever; July 1...Gettysburg, Pa.: first day of great battle; July 4....Concord, N.H.: Nathaniel Hawthorne attends celebration in which Franklin Pierce declares Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional;; September...Boston: Nathaniel Hawthorne dedicates Our Old Home (collection of Atlantic Monthly essays on English experiences) to his friend Pierce, in spite of advice from James Fields that it would hurt sales; Oct. 26...International Red Cross founded; November....U.S.: President Lincoln proclaims first Thanksgiving holiday; Nov. 19...Gettysburg, Pa.: Lincoln addresses commemoration
1864: Cambridgeport, Mass.: Emily Dickinson lives here while undergoing eye treatments; Savannah, Georgia: Gen. Sherman captures city; May 18-19.... Plymouth, N.H.: Nathaniel Hawthorne dies in his sleep on a trip with Franklin Pierce; Boston: James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton become co-editors of The North American Review
1865: April 9....Appomattox, Va.: Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant; April 15...Washington, D.C.: Pres. Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot; England: Lewis Carroll publishes Alice in Wonderland
1866: Amesbury, Massachusetts: John Greenleaf Whittier publishes "Snow-bound"; October...Hawthorne family moves to Germany so Julian can study there, having been asked to leave Harvard; October 1: Louisa May Alcott publishes Little Women
1869
1870: Paris: Jules Verne publishes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; November..New York: Julian Hawthorne marries May Amelung
1871: Feb. 26....England: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne dies; September...Rose Hawthorne marries George Lathrop; Boston: James T. Fields publishes Yesterdays with Authors
1872: England: Una Hawthorne, with help of Robert Browning, publishes unfinished manuscripts as Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life; Concord, Mass.: Emerson's house burns while he is in Europe and is reconstructed by his friends before his return
1874: March 26....San Francisco: Robert Frost born; U.S.: Chester Greenwood invents modern ear muffs
1876: Mar. 10....Boston: Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrates telephone; June 25...Battle of Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand); U.S.: Mark Twain publishes Tom Sawyer; U.S.: George Parsons Lathrop publishes A Study of Hawthorne
1877: Sept. 10...England: Una Hawthorne dies
1878: June 12...New York: William Cullen Bryant dies
1879: July 15...Concord, Mass.: Alcott opens Concord School of Philosophy; New York: Henry James publishes study, Hawthorne; U.S.: Electric light bulb perfected
1882: March 24....Cambridge, Mass.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies; April 27..Concord, Mass.: Ralph Waldo Emerson dies
1883: Jan. 1...Hawthorne's surviving, elder sister, Miss Elizabeth Maria Hawthorne, dies; May 1...Cambridge, Mass.: G. P. Lathrop edits Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Edition of Hawthorne's complete works
1884: N.Y.: George Eastman invents first transparent photographic film; April 27....Concord, Mass.: Ralph Waldo Emerson dies; Julian Hawthorne publishes biography, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife
1885: U.S.: Mark Twain publishes Huckleberry Finn; February..U.S.: Henry James satirizes Elizabeth Palmer Peabody in The Bostonians
1886: May 15....Amherst, Mass.: Emily Dickinson dies
1887: Mary Mann dies
1888: March 4....Boston, Mass.: Bronson Alcott dies; March 6....Roxbury, Mass.: Louisa May Alcott dies, not knowing of father's death; England: John Dunlop invents pneumatic tire
1889: Germany: Daimler invents gasoline automobile
1891: Sept. 28...New York: Herman Melville dies after finishing Billy Budd
1894: Jan. 3..Boston, Mass.: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody dies at Gordon hotel
1895: U.S.: Stephen Crane publishes Red Badge of Courage
1900
1903: Dec. 17...Kitty Hawk, N.C.: Wright brothers first fly in heavier-than-air craft
1904: July 4...Concord, Salem, Mass.: Centennial of Nathaniel Hawthorne's birth is celebrated
1926: July 9....Hawthorne, N.Y.: Rose Hawthorne dies
1934: San Francisco: Julian Hawthorne dies

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