HSB-41 Home - Entire Timeline
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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1755 | British deport French settlers of Acadia | Evangeline, Acadia, Longfellow | ||
| 1836 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins teaching modern languages at Harvard. | He lasted until 1854, though he complained early on, "Perhaps the worst thing in a college life is this having your mind constantly a playmate for boys,--constantly adapting to them, instead of stretching out and grappling with men's minds." Today Harvard's Longfellow Institute honors American multi-lingualism. | ||
| 1841 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor" | bones, Indians | ||
| 1841 | Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems | maritime | ||
| 1842 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery | slavery, abolition | ||
| 1842 | With the encouragement of his friend Charles Sumner, Longfellow publishes "Poems on Slavery | |||
| 1847 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline" | |||
| 1855 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Hiawatha" | |||
| 1856 | Senator Charles Sumner caned after delivering his speech "Crime Against Kansas | Longfellow Civil War | ||
| 1858 | Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" | Longfellow's poem rivaled Thanksgiving in American memory and helped perpetuate the mystique of the spinning wheel. See The Age of Homespun, page 27. | poetry, pilgrims" plymouth | |
| 1861 | Longfellow publishes "Paul Revere's Ride" in Atlantic Monthly | revolution | ||
| 1863 | Longfellow , "Tales of a Wayside Inn" | |||
| 1879 | Children give Longfellow a chair from the "spreading chestnut" | trees | ||
| 1901 | Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House | museum |