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Lewis Carroll Timeline
Lewis Carroll Timeline
By Brea Sloan
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Jan 27, 1832
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Jan 14, 1898
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Samuel F. B. Morse invents a telegraph system.
1867
Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England.
1887
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1861
Carroll enrolls in Christ Church College at Oxford University. His mother dies from a brain inflammation.
Adolphe Sax invents the saxophone.
Carroll publishes the nonsense poem, The Hunting of the Snark.
William James writes The Principles of Psychology.
Carroll graduates from Oxford with honors.
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species.
Thomas Edison invents the first electric light bulb.
Carroll takes the job as Curator of the Christ Church Common Room.
Carroll publishes his last fiction novel, Sylvie and Bruno.
Lewis Carroll publishes a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, titled Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
Lewis Carroll dies in Guildford, England
The American Civil War starts.
Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
First contact lens is made in Germany.
Carroll travels to Russia. He keeps a journal, and it is published after his death.
Carroll attends Rugby School (an all-boys school) in Warwickshire.
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Lewis Carroll invents the character of Alice while telling a story to some young girls.
Van Gogh paints The Yellow Chair.
Emily Bronte writes Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte Bronte writes Jane Eyre.
Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which gains immediate success.
Carroll writes a series called Knots for a magazine, which are later published together in a book called A Tangled Tale.
Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Rudyard Kipling writes The Jungle Book.
Carroll publishes a treatise on logic entitled Symbolic Logic.
Wager composes Tannhauser.
British Empire abolishes slavery.
Carroll takes up photography as a hobby and devotes many years of his life to mastering the art.