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Chronology of Transcendentalism:
April 4, 1780: William Ellery Channing born, Newport, Rhode Island
December 4, 1795: Thomas Carlyle born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland
November 29, 1799: Amos Bronson Alcott born in Wolcott, Connecticut
May 9, 1800: John Brown born, Torringon, Connecticut
November 10, 1801: Samuel Gridley Howe born in Boston
February 11, 1802: Lydia Maria Child born in Medford, Massachusetts
May 25, 1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson born in Boston
May 16, 1804: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody born in Massachusetts
July 4, 1804: Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts
May 23, 1810: Margaret Fuller born in Massachusetts
August 24, 1810: Theodore Parker born in Lexington, Massachusetts
July 12, 1817: Henry David Thoreau born in Concord
May 5, 1819: William Ellery Channing preaches his sermon, Unitarian Christianity
May 27, 1819: Julia Ward Howe born in New York, New York
May 31, 1819: Walt Whitman born on Long Island, New York
December 22, 1823: Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1825-1834: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody serves informally as secretary of William Ellery Channing
December 10, 1830: Emily Dickinson born in Amherst, Massachusetts
February 8, 1831: Ellen Emerson dies of tuberculosis
1832: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody publishes First Steps to the Study of History
October 8, 1832: Emerson preaches "Lord's Supper" sermon
December 25, 1832: Emerson resigns his pastorate at Second Church
1833: Lydia Maria Child publishes An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
1835: Record of a School
published anonymously by Elizabeth Palmer
Peabody about Bronson Alcott's school
September 14, 1835: Emerson marries Lydia Jackson, known henceforward as Lidian Emerson
September 1836: Transcendental Club formed
September 9, 1836: Emerson's "Nature" published
October 30, 1836: Emerson's son Waldo born
August 31, 1837: Emerson delivers "The American Scholar" address at Harvard
July 15, 1838: Emerson delivers "Divinity School Address" at Harvard
1839: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody opens West Street Bookstore
February 24, 1839: Emerson's daughter Ellen born
1839-1844: Margaret Fuller holds "conversations" withwomen on a variety of intellectual topics
1840-1844: Dial magazine published, edited by Margaret Fuller (1840-1842), later by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1842-1844)
1841: Brook Farm founded
1841: Thomas Carlyle publishes On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
March 20, 1841: Emerson's Essays- First Series published
January 27, 1842: Emerson's son Waldo dies. Later, Emerson writes and publishes Threnody
October 2, 1842: William Ellery Channing dies, Bennington, Vermont
1843: Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe are married
1845: Margaret Fuller publishes her Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Spring, 1845: Thoreau begins his stay at Walden Pond
1846: Margaret Fuller sails for Europe
July, 1846: Thoreau jailed for refusal to pay poll tax, giving rise to his essay, Resistance to Civil Government, later known as Civil Disobedience, in 1849
December 25, 1846: Emerson's poems published
1847: Thoreau returns from Walden Pond - in the summer, to stay with Emerson's wife and children while Emerson travels to Europe, and September, finally
1847: Margaret Fuller settles in Italy
1849: Margaret Fuller apparently secretly marries Giovanni Angelo, Marchese Ossoli
May 1849: Henry David Thoreau publishes Resistance to Civil Government, later known as Civil Disobedience, in Elizabeth Peabody's Aesthetic Papers.
July 19, 1850: Margaret Fuller, her husband and their son, Angelo, drown off Fire Island, New York; her manuscript history of the Italian revolution is also lost
1854: publication of Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
June 2, 1854: Anthony Burns convicted of being a fugitive slave; 50,000 in Boston watch him taken in shackles to a ship
July 4, 1854: Henry David Thoreau delivers his address known as Slavery in Massachusetts, in Framingham, Massachusetts
December 1854: Emerson meets Walt Whitman
1855: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass published
October 16, 1859: John Brown leads a raid on the armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia); surrenders to U.S. military force the next morning
October 30, 1859: Henry David Thoreau delivers A Plea for Captain John Brown to the citizens of Concord
1859: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody develops interest in kindergartens; she publishes on this topic, the last book in 1886
December 2, 1859: John Brown, after conviction for murder, slave insurrection and treason, hanged in Charles Town, Virginia (now in West Virginia)
May 10, 1860: Theodore Parker dies in Florence, Italy
1861: Julia Ward Howe writes "Battle Hymn of the Republic" after visiting an army camp near Washington, D.C.
February, 1862: Julia Ward Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in The Atlantic Monthly
April 15, 1862: Emily Dickinson writes to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, asking for his opinion of several of her poems
May 6, 1862: Henry David Thoreau dies in Concord
October 3, 1863: Mary Moody Emerson dies
May 19, 1864: Nathaniel Hawthorne dies in Plymouth, New Hampshire
1865: Thoreau's Cape Cod published posthumously
1871: Emerson travels to California, meets John Muir
July 24, 1874: Emerson's home burns
January 9, 1876: Samuel Gridley Howe dies in Boston
1880: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody publishes Reminiscences of Rev. Wm. Ellery Channing, D. D.
October 20, 1880: Lydia Maria Child dies in Wayland, Massachusetts
February 5, 1881: Thomas Carlyle dies in London, England
April 27, 1882: Ralph Waldo Emerson dies in Concord
May 15, 1886: Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Massachusetts
March 4, 1888: Amos Bronson Alcott dies in Concord
March 26, 1892: Walt Whitman dies in Camden, New Jersey
November 13, 1892: Lidian Emerson dies
January 3, 1894: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody died in Massachusetts
October 17, 1910: Julia Ward Howe dies in Newport, Rhode Island
May 9, 1911: Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson dies in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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