| 1810/00/00 |
Cambridge boys, including Oliver W Holmes, knock on Andrew Craigie's shuttered windows and then run, as if from a haunted house. |
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site |
Cambridge, MA |
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| 1830/09/16 |
"Old Ironsides", a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, is published in the Boston Daily Advertiser, bringing national attention to the scrapping USS Constitution. |
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Old Ironsides |
USS CONSTITUTION |
Boston |
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| 1833/05/00 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes visits Salisbury. |
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Salisbury, Eng |
Wiltshire |
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| 1833/05/00 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes visits Stonehenge. |
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Stonehenge |
Wiltshire |
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| 1836/00/00 |
"The Last Leaf", a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, is published. |
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The Last Leaf (Holmes poem) |
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| 1846/11/00 |
"Urania: a Rhymed Lesson. Pronounced Before the Mercantile Library Association, October 14, 1846" by Oliver Wendell Holmes is published by William D Ticknor and Company. |
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Old Corner Bookstore |
Boston |
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| 1849/00/00 |
William D Ticknor and Company, Boston, publish the second edition of "Poems" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
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Old Corner Bookstore |
Boston |
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| 1850/00/00 |
Frequent visitor |
Visitor |
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site |
Cambridge, MA |
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| 1850/00/00 |
Dean Oliver Wendell Holmes and his colleagues seriously considered admitting a forty-five-year-old woman to the Harvard Medical School. |
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Harvard Medical School Quadrangle |
Boston |
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History of Harvard Medical School |
| 1850/08/05 |
On the way up, Duyckinck's group is caught in a sudden storm and takes refuge under overhanging rocks where Oliver Holmes uncorks a bottle of champagne and shares it with the group. |
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Monument Mountain |
Great Barrington, MA |
Champagne |
Evert Duyckinck's Monument Picnic |
| 1861/00/00 |
"A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr is published. |
Author |
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters (Short Story) |
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| 1864/05/23 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. |
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery |
Concord, MA |
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Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 1865/00/00 |
At sometime, the door knocker from the Hancock Door is given to Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes who used it on his own front door. It is now back on the Hancock Door at the Old State House. |
Owner |
Hancock Mansion Door |
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| 1867/11/21 |
Henry W Longfellow, Ralph W Emerson, Oliver W Holmes and Louis Agassiz dine with Charles Dickens. |
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Charles Dickens' 1867 Tour of America |
| 1880/04/04 |
Friends of James Freeman Clarke, including William H Channing, Rev Henry W Foote, Julia Ward Howe and Dr O W Holmes, honor Clarke on his birthday with poem, song and story. |
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Church of the Disciples |
Boston |
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| 1893/05/01 |
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony at Festival Hall |
Poet |
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Jackson Park Historic Landscape District and Midway Plaisance |
Chicago |
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World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago |