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1799 |
Amos Bronson Alcott is born in Wolcott, Connecticut. |
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1803 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson is born,
Boston, Massachusetts. Orestes
Brownson is born in Vermont. |
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1804 |
Nathaniel
Hawthorne is born,
Salem, Massachusetts |
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1809 |
Sophia Peabody is born. |
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1810 |
Margaret Fuller is born
Theodore Parker is born. |
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1817 |
Henry David Thoreau is born, Concord, Massachusetts. |
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1829 |
Ralph Waldo
Emerson marries Ellen Tucker.
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1831 |
Emerson is ordained as minister
at Boston's Second Unitarian Church. Ellen Tucker
dies at 19; Emerson travels through Europe, meets
Thomas Carlyle,
William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. |
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1832 |
Emerson resigns as pastor at Boston's
Second Unitarian Church.
Louisa May Alcott is born in Germantown, Pennsylvania. |
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1834 |
Emerson returns to Concord,
Massachusetts. |
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1835 |
Emerson marries Lydia (Lydian) Jackson,
his second wife. |
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1836 |
Emerson publishes
Nature.
Concord celebrates its bicentennial; Emerson writes
"Concord Hymn." |
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1837 |
Hawthorne publishes
Twice-Told Tales; Emerson delivers
“The American
Scholar,” the annual Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa address;
Thoreau graduates from Harvard and returns to Concord; Thoreau
begins his
journal. |
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1838 |
Emerson delivers the Harvard
Divinity
School Address. |
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1840 |
Margaret
Fuller edits
The Dial, a transcendentalist journal.
Orestes Brownson joins the Transcendentalists. |
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1841 |
George Ripley founds
Brook Farm at West
Roxbury, Massachusetts. Emerson writes
"Self-Reliance" and
'The Oversoul." |
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1842 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne marries Sophia
Peabody, moves into the
Old Manse; Ralph Waldo Emerson assumes the editorship
of The Dial. |
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1844 |
The Dial ceases publication; Margaret Fuller assumes the post
of the first literary critic of the
New York Tribune.
Orestes Brownson converts to Catholicism and vilifies the
Transcendentalists. |
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1845 |
Henry David
Thoreau moves into his cabin on July 4th. Texas enters the Union as
a southern slave state. Amos Bronson Alcott moves his family into
his new Utopian farm,
"Fruitlands,"
which closes after only six
months.
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1846 |
President James Polk authorizes the
invasion of Mexico. Thoreau refuses to pay his Massachusetts state
poll tax and
spends one night in the Concord jail in protest of the
Mexican War. |
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1847 |
Brook Farm fails financially and
closes; Thoreau abandons his cabin at
Walden Pond; Margaret Fuller moves to Rome,
marries Marchese Ossoli; joins the Italian Revolution, siding with
Mazzini.
John Humphrey Noyes opens the
Oneida Community in New
York. |
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1848 |
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1849 |
Thoreau publishes
A Week on the Concord and Merrimac
Rivers, based
upon a three-week sojourn with his brother John;
Thoreau writes
“Resistance to Civil Government” (“Civil Disobedience”).
Hawthorne loses his job as a U.S. customs agent in Salem. |
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1850 |
Margaret Fuller, her son, and husband die in shipwreck off Fire
Island, New York. Hawthorne publishes
The Scarlet Letter.
Hawthorne and his family move to Lenox, Massachusetts, befriended by
Herman Melville who dedicates
Moby Dick to "The Author of
The Scarlet Letter." |
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1852 |
Hawthorne purchases the
Wayside Inn
in Concord, Massachusetts. |
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1854 |
Thoreau publishes
Walden; Or Life in the Woods;
composes a campaign biography for his college friend and
Presidential candidate, Franklin Pierce. Pierce appoints Hawthorne
as Consul to Liverpool, England. Hawthorne and his family take
up residence in England. |
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1861 |
Southern states secede from the
Union; Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumpter in Charleston Bay. |
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1862 |
Henry David Thoreau dies from
tuberculosis in
Concord. Louisa May Alcott joins the Federal troops as nurse. |
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1864 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne dies during an
outing with his friend Franklin Pierce in Maine. |
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1868 |
Louisa May Alcott publishes
Little Women. |
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1872 |
Sophia Peabody, Hawthorne's wife,
dies and is buried in England. She and Una, their daughter, are
re-interred beside Nathaniel Hawthorne on June 26, 2006. |
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1876 |
Orestes Brownson dies. |
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1878 |
Amos Bronson Alcott opens the
Concord School of Philosophy in his home, the Orchard House, in
Concord. |
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1880 |
George Ripley dies. Amos Bronson
Alcott moves the Concord School of Philosophy into its new building
on the property of the Orchard House. |
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1882 |
Emerson dies in Concord. |
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1888 |
Louisa May Alcott dies at age 56. |
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