| 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. |
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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 |
| 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 |
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Jackson Park Historic Landscape District and Midway Plaisance |
Chicago |
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World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago |