Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
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. Life Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Cambridge, MA
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. Author Old Ironsides USS CONSTITUTION Boston
1833/05/00 Oliver Wendell Holmes visits Salisbury. Visitor Salisbury, Eng Wiltshire
1833/05/00 Oliver Wendell Holmes visits Stonehenge. Visitor Stonehenge Wiltshire
1836/00/00 "The Last Leaf", a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, is published. Author The Last Leaf (Holmes poem)
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. Author Old Corner Bookstore Boston
1849/00/00 William D Ticknor and Company, Boston, publish the second edition of "Poems" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Author Old Corner Bookstore Boston
1850/00/00 Frequent visitor Visitor Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Cambridge, MA
1850/00/00 Dean Oliver Wendell Holmes and his colleagues seriously considered admitting a forty-five-year-old woman to the Harvard Medical School. Work Harvard Medical School Quadrangle Boston 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. Guest 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)
1864/05/23 Oliver Wendell Holmes serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. Mourner Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Concord, MA 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
1867/11/21 Henry W Longfellow, Ralph W Emerson, Oliver W Holmes and Louis Agassiz dine with Charles Dickens. Dinner Guest 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. Life Church of the Disciples Boston
1893/05/01 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony at Festival Hall Poet Jackson Park Historic Landscape District and Midway Plaisance Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

3 Creative Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr »

Title Type Association Y/M/D Moniker
Title Type Association Y/M/D Moniker
Old Ironsides Author Poem 1830/09/16
  • Notable Poems to Read for a Life List
The Last Leaf (Holmes poem) Author Poem 1836/00/00
  • Notable Poems to Read for a Life List
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters (Short Story) Author Short Story 1861/00/00

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