Henry David Thoreau for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities
7 TIME LINE sees 1817 July 12 David Henry Thoreau born in Con cord Massachusetts 1822 Thoreau first visits Walden Pond with his fam ily 1837 August 30 Thoreau graduates from Harvard College October 22 Thoreau starts writing in a jour nal prompted by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1839 Henry and brother John teach at Concord 1841 Academy 1839 August September Henry and brother John paddle the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1840 The Dial is published Thoreau contributes 1844 seven essays and four poems 1842 January 11 John Thoreau Jr Henry’s brother dies July 19 22 Thoreau and Richard Fuller walk to Mount Wachusett 1843 May December Thoreau lives on Staten Island New York 1844 July August Thoreau walks across western New England 1845 March the Fitchburg Railroad line is com pleted
July 4 Thoreau moves into his house at Walden Pond 1846 July Thoreau spends a night in jail for not pay ing a tax August September Thoreau makes his first trip to the Maine woods 1847 September 6 Thoreau leaves his Walden Pond house 1848 January February Thoreau reads Relation of Individual to the State in Concord 1849 May Resistance to Civil Government is pub lished in Aesthetic Papers May 26 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is published 1849 June 14 Helen Thoreau Henry's older sister October Thoreau and Ellery Channing make their first trip to Cape Cod 1850 June Thoreau travels to Cape Cod September Fugitive Slave Law passes September Thoreau and Ellery Channing travel to present day Quebec 1852 September 6 7 Thoreau and Ellery Channing hike Mount Monadnock 1853 September Thoreau makes his second trip to the Maine woods 1854 May 30 the Kansas Nebraska Act becomes law July 4 Thoreau reads Slavery in Mass
achusetts lecture in Framingham August 9 Walden or Life in the Woods is pub lished October 19 21 Thoreau revisits Mount Wachusett 1855 July Thoreau and Ellery Channing travel to Cape Cod 1856 September 5 10 Thoreau takes botanical trip to Brattleboro Vermont 1857 June Thoreau makes his last trip to Cape Cod July August Thoreau makes his last trip to the Maine woods 1858 June 2 4 Thoreau and H G O Blake hike Mount Monadnock July 2 19 Thoreau and Edward Hoar travel to White Mountains 1859 February 3 John Thoreau Henry’s father dies October 16 John Brown attacks the armory at Harpers Ferry Virginia October November Henry reads A Plea for Captain John Brown in Concord Boston and Worcester December 2 John Brown is hanged 1860 August 4 9 Thoreau and Ellery Channing hike Mount Monadnock 1861 April 12 the American Civil War begins with firing upon Fort Sumter May July Thoreau and Horace Mann Jr travel
to Minnesota 1862 May 6 Henry Thoreau dies at home in Con cord 1863 Excursions The Maine Woods Cape Cod and A 1866 Yankee in Canada are published posthumously
