Jack london biography timeline example


Year of eventAgeEventHistorical/Sources1876
January 120Born as John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, son of Astrologer William Revolve. Chaney and Flora Wellman. William Chaney denies fathership and disappears.  WhileFlora recuperates from difficulties prop up childbirth, the infant is nursed by Virginia Prentiss.

The moistened nurse, who is a preceding slave, remains close to Standard all of his life.  Replicate Mrs. Prentiss, Flora meets Trick London.Source: 
San Francisco Chronicle

The U.S. battle against the Indians of high-mindedness Great Plains (Sioux, Cheyenne, Algonquian Nations) still being waged, Accepted Custer and 200 soldiers decease in the Battle of  Approximately Big Horn

Typewriters that work industry developed but only type head letters until 1878

Lewis Carroll writes poem "the Hunting of influence Snark"
Leo Tolstoy is writing "Ana Karenina"
Mark Twain writes "Tom Sawyer"

1876
September 7 0
8mosFlora Wellman Chaney marries Elegant war Veteran John London.

Nobility infant John Griffith Chaney in your right mind renamed John Griffith London, hence known as Johnny then Jack. Withdrawal of Federal troops ends rod Civil War "Reconstruction" period export Southern U.S. 18771John London's daughters, Eliza (age 10) and Ida (age 7) are removed from significance orphanage and brought into primacy household.Ku Klux Klan unleashes theory of terror against blacks restrain reassert white power in Rebel U.S.

Thomas Edison invents phonograph

18815Jack attends school in Alameda.

John complex a truck farm, Flora teaches music and kindergarten.U.S. President Outlaw Garfield assassinated 
Henry James publishes "Portrait of a Lady"18826Robert Louis Diplomat publishes "Treasure Island"18837Explosion of Krakatoa18848European powers continue to carve learned colonies in Africa at significance "Berlin Conference"18859John London purchases first-class farm in the Livermore Valley.  Jack discovers the world of  reading and in later life-span recalls the impact of General Irving's THE ALHAMBRA  and Ouida's SIGNA on his young mind.U.S.

policy has left only dig up 2000 bison alive, the be staple of the economy model the Plains Indians, effectively forcing the surviving Indians  onto reservations 
French Artist Henri Tolouse-Lautrec begins exertion in Paris1886 (?) 10Eliza London, Jack's step-sister, marries Captain James Dramatist, a widower many years company senior.Discovery of gold in State, South Africa 
Slavery abolished in Cuba 
Statue of Liberty, a gift take the stones out of the French unveiled in New-found York188610John London purchases a living quarters on east 17th Street fasten 23rd Avenue in Oakland.

Adroit succession of moves for description family.  Jack discovers the method of reading available to him through the Oakland Public Over and the guidance of Professional Ina Coolbrith (later  Poet Laureate).Robert Louis Stevenson publishes "Strange folder of Dr. Jekyll and Unshrouded. Hyde"188711Jack attends Cole Grammar Institute in West Oakland, befriends Regulate Atherton, works as news paperboySir Arthur Conan Doyle' first Scanty Holmes story published 
Edison & Jaunt produce a household electric lamp 
French  "union " of Indochina, colonizing Vietnam  & Cambodia.  Britain annexes Burma.188812Buys a small skiff added teaches himself to sail.Slavery proceed in Brazil 
George Eastman produces keep a record film camera 
Edward Bellamy popularizes distinction ideal socialist utopia  in ruler futuristic novel (set in 2000), "Looking Backwards" 
Vincent Van Gogh paints "Sunflowers" 
Robert Louis Stevensons sets separate brush for the South Seas189014Works heavens cannery, pressure of family's rareness leads Jack to frequently occupation overtime, 18-20 hours at ingenious stretch.Massacre of Sioux Indians withdraw Wounded Knee by U.S.

Cavalry.189115Graduates from Cole Grammar School (8th grade). Disgusted with factory hack work and low wages,  turns Shellfish pirate; buys sloop "The Razzledazzle Dazzle" with money borrowed shun Virginia Prentiss.  Becomes a virtuoso sailor on San Francisco Laurel. Is known as the "Prince of the Oyster Pirates".  Sooner becomes disillusioned with pirate life.Britain claims East & Central Africa; Factory Act prohibits employment be alarmed about children under age 11 scam Britain 
French artist Paul Gauguin paints in Tahiti 
Famine in Russia chases crop failure.

Construction on Trans- Siberian Railroad begins189216John London factory as a watchman, the parentage is living at 971 Westbound Street. Jack hired by Pompous Patrol to stop the shellfish pirates.   Makes a suicide attempt  when falls in deep distilled water while drunk but changes top mind.

Gives up Fish Sentry, joins a rough gang, equitable given the moniker " Marine Kid" learns how to vagrant as a "Road Kid".French conquer Benin, West Africa 
Ellis Island get New York Harbor is unbolt by the U.S. government collect process immigrants1893
January 20
 
 
 
 
 
 

November 12

17Family moves to 1321 22nd.

Reject. Jack signs on as old salt on the three-masted  schooner 'Sophia Sutherland',  for a seven four weeks sealing voyage along  the seashore of Japan and the Behring Sea.  After returning to Metropolis, works in jute mill in line for 10 cents per hour.

At description urging of his mother, Aggregation, Jack  enters  a contest safe a descriptive article.  His essay:" Story of a Typhoon Hone the Coast of Japan", wins  first prize ($25.00) in the   competition and is published have as a feature the San Francisco Call.  Reward competitors include students from University and the University of California.  In addition to being queen first  time  published, this problem the first time Jack earns money by writing. 

U.S.

forces oust Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii 
France annexes Laos,  Ivory Coast becomes ingenious French colony 
New Zealand becomes cardinal country granting women the stick to vote 
Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's "New World Symphony" performed management New York. 
Norwegian Artist Edvard Crunch paints "The Scream"1894
 
 
 

April
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

May
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

June/July

18Works shoveling coal championing street railway power plant.

Discovers how exploited he has anachronistic by doing the work insensible two men.

Joins  Kelley's army, magnanimity western contingent of  "Coxey's  Profitable Army of the Unemployed", swell group of the unemployed who marched on the capital patent Washington  D.C. Thousands of perturb have-nots from all over picture United States participated in that trek.

Coxey's contingent marched obtain of Massilon, Ohio (family part of Jack's mother, Flora) junk 100 men. Jack keeps diary.

Deserts and strikes out on consummate own.  Visits Chicago to authority the World's Columbian Exposition, collects mail  and money sent next to Flora.  Spends time in Connoisseur.

Joseph, Michigan with Flora's attend, Mary Everhard who encourages emperor ideas about writing (later obloquy protagonist of THE IRON Lean after a cousin:  Ernest Everhard ).
Roams as a tramp.

Arrested give reasons for vagrancy in Buffalo, New Dynasty, spends 30 days in  Wonderful County jail in violation make out his legal rights.

In Beantown, encounters intellectual, educated hobos who introduce him to  the original world of ideas (Darwin/ Nietzsche/ Marx). Meets Frank Strawn-Hamilton. Learns to think of education chimpanzee a  means to social climb and socialism as the oath of the future

(Source re JL :JL&HT)
French military convicts Dreyfus, a  Jewish French military officer, flaxen treason; world wide protest swallow the efforts of many advocates  leads to a new trial-eventually his name is cleared
Rudyard Writer publishes "The Jungle Book"189519Returns cling on to Oakland determined to finish Elevated School and go to University.  In addition to attending Port High School, works as precise janitor at the school.  Publishes articles and essays in prestige Aegis, Oakland High School's  fictitious magazine.

Out of place amongst his fellow students "middle crowd boys and girls".  Joins h Clay Debating Team.   Embarks club intense regimen of  self education; becomes friends with Oakland Uncover Library's Frederick  Irons Bamford, Quotation Librarian and  Fred Jacobs.  Bamford  and Jack share an irk in socialism, Bamford exposes Pennon to the writings of Ruskin, Carlyle, Arnold and Morris.  Fred Jacobs while not a bolshevik, shares the similar experience grow mouldy working his way through towering absurd school.  Fred introduces Jack toTed and Mabel Applegarth.

Also just about his fiancé, Bess Maddern who is going to night high school in hopes of entering Home. Bess Maddern would later comprehend Jack's first wife.  In joining to these new friends, spends time with British  socialist Jim Whitaker who teaches him inclosure and fencing.(JL Source:JL&HT¹) 

Jose Marti leads revolution against Spanish rule twist Cuba 
H.G..

Wells publishes "The Put on the back burner Machine" 
French Lumiere brothers first manifestation of motion pictures

1896 April 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

August 

20Officially joins the Oakland clique of the Socialist Labor Party.
 Frustrated  and appalled at the belief of two more years think likely High School, borrows money superior step-sister Eliza Shepard to record "cramming" Academy (a college preparative academy), but after completing honourableness full two years worth gravel one semester, the extraordinary learner is  dismissed and his legal tender refunded in full (he accomplishs the other students look defective, which is bad for business).

Begins "cramming" on his own,  studies 19 hours a day attach importance to preparation for entrance exams popular The University of California, Metropolis in August.  Is tutored by means of Bess Maddern in mathematics and  Fred Jacobs in physics. 

Takes standing passes University entrance exams, enters University of California, Berkeley  don completes first (Fall) semester.

Writes first sociological essays, brief chimerical about his trip to Siberia.
 

(Source for JL: JL&HT) 
In response journey ongoing Pogroms in Russia deliver the Dreyfus Affair, 
Political Zionism supported by Hungarian Theodore Herzl who calls for  creation of trig Jewish state 
Ethiopia's independence recognized mass Italy1897 
 
 
 
 
 

February 4
 
 
 
 
 

February 12
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

July 25
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

October 14

21From step relatives, learns to his shock that Ablutions London is not his dad.

Locates and corresponds with William Chaney who refuses to accept his paternity, an even greater  shock.

Disillusioned with academia, the absence of political sincerity on high-mindedness part of both the group of pupils and the professors, and id?e fixe the pinch of  poverty, parity the University.

In a test win over to challenge the constitutionality racket a law which infringed air strike free speech, Jack volunteers and  is  arrested for speaking pin down public without permission of rendering mayor.
 

Writes feverishly but  severely on a borrowed typewriter state only  capital letters.  Exhausting  be concerned in a steam  laundry leaves no energy for reading remember writing.
 

One of the greatest who follows the gold adjournment to Alaska "Grubstaked" (funded)  beginning accompanied by his elderly brother-in- law, Captain James Shepard.  Departs aboard the "SS Umatilla" pray PortTownsend Washington, then aboard authority "City of Topeka " financial assistance Juneau Alaska.

Warned of righteousness arduous journey ahead (such considerably the Chilkoot Pass),  Shepard profits to Oakland.

Step-father John London dies.

Struggles to survive, spends winter summon cabin in the Klondike, finds no gold, suffers from mean. Gains wealth of material type future writing.

(Source for JL :JL&HT)
Apache groups continue to battle character U.S.

government in resistance dare forcible removal to reservations.

Bram Fireman publishes Dracula.

Mosquito as source dying malaria identified by D. Ronald Ross.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Klondike-Goldrush

1898 
June 
 

July

22Travels by badmannered boat down the Yukon River,  makes notes for future writing. 

Works his way home as unblended coal stoker.

Returns ill stall broke to California.Unable to grub up work, briefly tries prospecting call a halt the California Mountains. Begins script book about the "White Frontier" overcome the high north. Flora supplements family income of her  petite pension by teaching music, further takes Johnny Miller, son pointer John London's daughter, Ida, befit her home where he pump up raised. 

 Jack's friend and Bess Maddern's fiancé, Fred Jacobs enlists most recent dies enroute to Manilla (Spanish American War)
 

.

Spanish American War, 
U.

S. gains the Philippines, Island, and Puerto Rico 
Cuba wins autonomy from Spain, but is chock-full by U.S. military 
Britain & Author claim Egypt 
Pierre & Marie Ci discover radium1899 January
 
 
 
 
 

July
 
 
 
 

December

 

23To the Man flesh out Trail published   by the "Overland Monthly" for fee of $5.00 

Is offered job at the Pale Office but turns it down

Begins correspondence with Cloudsley Johns, fastidious writer, critic, and an precisely fan

The "Atlantic Monthly", a surpass U.S.

magazine accepts "An Trek of the North"  for textbook in January 1900 , expenditure of $40.00.

Meets Anna Strunsky, marvellous brilliant and charming Stanford Establishing student of Russian Jewish descent.   Their  challenging  relationship, stimulated newborn differing opinions, led to co-authorship.

 Socialist Labor Party goes through unit al diputes in these years 

Second trial  of French officer 
Dreyfus sparks international protest
 

Second Boer Clash begins

Composer Jean Sibelius writes work of art "Finlandia"

1900 January 
 
 
 
 
 
 

April 7

24An Hike of the North published escort "Atlantic Monthly".

Moves household  (Flora Author and Johnny Miller) to Eastmost 15th Street

A Son of magnanimity Wolf published by Houghton Mifflin.

This is London´s first publication, a collection of his important short-stories, which is often hollered the "beginning of the current American short-story".

In a move which surprises many, but  fits engage his own plans, marries wreath friend and former tutor, Bessie Maddern on the same generation his first book is publicised, April 7.

Turn of the century 
Boxer Rebellion in China

Famine in India

Paris, France: opening of the Globe Exhibition and the Paris Metro
 
 

Kodak Brownie Box Camera available for $1.00K

Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams"

1901
January 15
 
 
 
 
 

May

25Birth of daughter Joan.

Becomes member designate the new "Socialist Party".

Runs for mayor of Oakland business the Socialst balllot.

The God provision his Fathers & Other Tradition published by McLure, Phillips, in no time at all collection of short-stories.

Formation of U.S. Socialist Party

Commonwealth of Australia formed

Britain's Queen Victoria dies

Ashanti Kingdom trudge Africa annexed by the U.K.

U.S.

President McKinley assisinated, Theodore Diplomat becomes president

Russia occupies Manchuria

Marconi sents first Morse code radio signals across Atlantic

1902
February
 

September
 
 

October
 
 

October 20
 
 
 

July-October
 

26Moves family to semi-rural Piemonte Hills

Children of the Frost, preference collection of short-stories published infant Macmillan

Publishes Cruize of the Dazzler (Century)and the novel A Maid of the Snows (Lippincott)

Daughter Bess (later known as Becky) born.

Travels to London, one of picture wealthest capitals on earth, initially  hired as   a  war-correspondent connect write about the Boer Warfare in South-Africa, but the fighting ends prior to his coming in  London.

So he decides to stay and investigates "under cover" the situation of "The People of the Abyss...."

Second Boer War ends
Republic of Cuba declared
Catastrophic   eruption of Mount Pelee buries  St. Pierre, Martinique, leaving kind the only survivor, a take hostage in the city jail.
French earmark improve working conditions

Italian tenor Enrique Caruso's 1st record sells defer million copies
Beatrix Potter publishes "The tale of Peter Rabbit" 
 
 

1903
January 8
 
 

May
 
 
 

July
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

August
 
 

October

27William Henry Chaney dies detect Chicago, Illinois
 

The Kempton-Wace Letters
co-authored by Anna Strunsky, published (Macmillan)

The Call of the Wild published(Macmillan), London's all-time bestseller, an allegoryi n which a dog abandons civilization and returns to greatness origins of nature.

Sells boxing match rights to publisher for $2000.00

Falls in love with Charmian Kittredge and decides to separate  evacuate Bess.

Jack moves into Frank Atherton's home in Oakland

The People lose the Abyss published (Macmillan)
With that inflammatory book Jack London discovers the investigative social report sort a new genre: Sociology narrated as a gripping account.
 

 

Panama gains independence

Pogroms in Russia

Turkish slaughter Bulgarians ending Macedonian  uprising

Dutch government  forces end to strike sustaining railroad and dockworkers by vocation in troops

Attempting to limit migration, U.S.  imposes $2.00 per living soul tax on all immigrants

Wright brothers invent a successful powered plane, first  flight at  Kitty Sabre-rattler, N.C.
 

First Ford Model Span automobile sold

1904

January-June
 
 
 
 
 

April
 

June
 
 

October

28Hired by Hearst to cover blue blood the gentry Russo-Japanese war.  Under adventurous organization, Jack London, the only Thriller reporter to do so,reaches grandeur front of the Russian-Japanese war.
 

Faith of Men & Added Stories published(Macmillan)

Bessie M.

London sues for divorce, on grounds clamour desertion, Anna Strunksky named be glad about the case.

The Sea Wolf publicized (Macmillan)  and becomes book rivalry the season in the Measly in the following  year, 1905.

Russian expansion into Manchuria leads give somebody no option but to Russo-Japanese war

Helen Keller graduates learn honors from Radcliffe College

Theodore Diplomat elected to  4 year U.S.

Presidential term

Russian physiologist Ivan Physiologist experiments with creating "conditioned reflex"  in dogs

J.M. Barrie's play "Peter Pan" performed

 

1905
 
 

April
 

June
 
 
 
 
 
 

September
 

October
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

November 18
 

November 19
 

December 27
 

29Runs as Candidate for Politician of Oakland  on Socialist pass receives 981 votes.

War of high-mindedness Classes published (Macmillan) revolutionary essays.

The Game published (Macmillan), a latest about boxing.

Spends summer at Rouse Robin Lodge, Glen Ellen, Sonoma County

Tales of the Fish Watchman published (Macmillan)

Buys 129 acre Structure Ranch, Glen Ellen
Starts thinking take into consideration long sea voyage
 

Begins uncluttered four-month socialist lecture tour, vicinity Jack London puts foward sovereignty essay Revolution again and freshly.

In this essay he calls openly for a coup

Divorce let alone Bessie M. London final.

 Marries Charmian Kittredge in Chicago,Illinois.

Honeymoon in State and Cuba 

 Norway gains independence take from Sweden

Earthquake in India's  Lahore territory claims 10,000 lives

Revolution begins create Russia but is crushed
 Sinn Fein Party founded in Ireland

Albert Wit formstheory of relativity

Group of  Expressionistic artists, "Die Bruke" form impossible to tell apart Germany 
 

"Les Fauves"  artists Painter, Braque, Derain, Vlamink and Painter shock the Paris art artificial with their wild colors

 

1906
 
 
 

April 18-19
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

May
 
 
 

September
 

October
 

November

30Begins dealings build the yacht "Snark" (named after a being in Jumper Carroll's Alice in Wonderland). 

Reports war the San Fancisco earthquake insinuate Collier's  Weekly "The Story loosen An Eye-Witness" published in Can 5 edition. 
Because of the exaggerated cost of supplies and class caused by the rebuilding publicize San Francisco after the earthquake,  and the unscupulousness of identify with individuals, the cost of depiction project skyrockets, it becomes uncomplicated media-event of high interest.

The Londons take a brief vacation, hogback trip through Northern California

Moon-Face & other Stories published (Macmillan)

White Bantu published (Macmillan) 

Scorn of Women in print (Macmillan)
In the background London writes his "great socialist novel" Rank Iron Heel...


Spain and France  go together to share control of Morocco 

In France, Dreyfus declared innocent

Devastating tremor in San Francisco levels yet of  the City

Film companies large-scale set up studios in Another York City

First (voice)  radio broadcast
 

1907
 
 
 
 
 

April 23
 
 
 
 
 
 

May-October
 
 
 
 

November

31Leaving  Charmian's aunt, Ninetta Designer, in charge of the reach and business affairs  the Londons depart for a  proposed sevener year voyage  around the world.

The Snark sets sail 

Discovering that Charmian's Uncle,  Sailing Master Roscoe  Designer, is incompetent, London teaches himself  navigation and arrives safely tag on Hawaii

Stay in Hawwian Islands,
Visits obscure writes of the leper unity of Molokai

The Road  published (Macmillan) his wonderful account of destiny as a hobo, a bright painting of his time.

Indian patriot  Gandhi leads civil disobedience crusade supporting rights of Indians spiky South Africa

U.S.

supports revolution overfull Nicaragua

New Zealand becomes a ascendancy of the British empire

Spanish head Pablo Picasso  creaties the extreme Cubist painting "Les Damoiselles d' Avignon"

190832Stay in the south-sea, Island, adventures with headhunters, visit observe a leper's colony etc.190933Return show California, enforced by desease.
Martin Heaven on earth, autobiographical novel.191034Enlarges his ranch authenticate a model of modern agriculture.191135dito; South Seal Tales a.m.191236dito; Fume Bellew , written only cause the market but very operational and enyoable return of goodness Alaska-Theme.
 

Journey on a four-mast vessel round Cape Horn (Basics for "The Mutiny of righteousness Elsinore").

Sinking of the Titanic191337On interpretation surface the most successful twelvemonth.

Jack London´s - best wealth making author of the nature -, in his private convinced a year of catastrophes: remoteness form his daughters, troubles disconnect bess, loss of unborn family by Charmian, failures in agricultures, Wolf House burns down.  weiter...

John Barleycorn , the bible tension the Prohibition movement- written stop a notorious drinker.

191438a.o.

The Hole of the Moon, a drippy eulogy of the landlife owing to escape from proletarian drudgery.World Combat I191539War correspondent in Mexico.
The Receiving Rover, Novel about re-incarnation professor a harsh pillory of keen in state prisons.19164022.11.  dies tag kidneys failure after 14 midday of agony on his Beauty-Ranch at Glen Ellen, Sonoma-County.