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In Florida, Missouri
Mark Twain
November 30, 1835
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The day he was born in Florida, Missouri.
When he was 15
1851
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He got a job as a printer and occasional writer and editor at the Hannibal Western Union, a little newspaper owned by his brother, Orion at the age of 15.
When he was 21
1857
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He began learning the art of piloting a steamboat on the Mississippi at the age of 21.
Pilot
1859
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Twain became a fully licensed steamboat pilot until the beginning of the Civil War.
Civil War
June 1861
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Joined the Confederate Army but didn't want to stay for long, so he left.
Moving to California
July 1861
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He climbed on-board a stagecoach and headed for Nevada and California, where he would live for the next five years.
New Nickname
February 1863
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He adopted the nickname “Mark Twain,” which is a riverboat term meaning “two fathoms deep".
Big Break
1865
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He got a big break, when one of his tales about life in a mining camp, "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," was printed in newspapers and magazines around the country
Frogs Story
1865
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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published in the Saturday press, which won Twain the fame in the East that he had wanted for so long.
Marriage
1870
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Twain married Olivia Langdon
Another book
1889
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Twain published A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, a science-fiction/historical novel about ancient England.
World Tour
1894
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When his publishing company failed , Twain was forced to set out on a worldwide lecture tour to earn money.
Daughter's Death
1896
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His favorite daughter, Susy, died at the age of 24 of spinal meningitis.
Wife Died
June 1904
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Twain's wife died from an illness that she had had for many years.
Death
April 21, 1910
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Mark Twain died at his country home in Redding, Connecticut. He was buried in Elmira, New York.
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Broke
1862
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Twain was flat broke and had no regular job to give him money.
New job
1873
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Twain's writings turned toward social criticism. He and Hartford Courant publisher Charles Dudley Warner co-wrote The Gilded Age, a novel that attacked political corruption, big business and the American obsession with getting rich.
Book
1876
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Wrote the Adventures of Tom Sawyer
New Book
1881
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Twain wrote The Prince and the Pauper
Next book
1885
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Wrote sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer which was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn