See also : Comprehensive Year-by-Year Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir
1838 -- April 21, birthday of John Muir, born in Dunbar, Scotland.
1841 -- Began school at the age of three.
1849 -- Immigration to Wisconsin at the age of 11.
1860 -- Left home (22 years of age) to exhibit his inventions at State Agriculture Fair in Madison , Wisconsin; brief jobs; enrolls at the University of Wisconsin.
1861-62 -- Attends University of Wisconsin for 2-1/2 years (5 tri-semesters), teaches school during the winter, forms friendship with the Carr's.
1863 -- Left the University; foot tour of Wisconsin, Iowa , Illinois, and Canada.
1866 -- Indianapolis, Indiana : worked for manufacturer of carriage parts.
1867 -- Eye injury. Begins 1000 mile walk to Florida and then to Cuba.
1868 -- Voyage to California: landed in San Francisco, March 28, and walked across the valley; worked at ranch of Pat Delaney.
1869 -- Summer sheep herder in high Sierra; returned to live in Yosemite, to work for Hutchings, to operate saw mill; began exploration for signs of glaciers.
1871 -- Met Emerson in Yosemite.
1872 -- Began to publish articles in leading magazines.
1873 -- Continuous residence in Yosemite ended.
1874 -- Met the Strentzels in Alhambra Valley.
1875 -- Lived in Bay Area writing magazine articles; trips to mountains; Utah .
1879 -- Proposed to Louie Strentzel; First Alaska trip with S. Hall Young; discovery of Glacier Bay and Muir Glacier.
1880 -- April 14: marriage of John Muir (42) and Louie Strentzel (33); Second trip to Alaska, adventure with Stickeen .
1881 -- John Swett bought ranch adjoining Muir holdings. Birth of Wanda Muir; railroad built; third trip to Alaska aboard the Corwin.
1882-83 -- Construction of mansion.
1882 -- Beginning of extensive ranching period.
1886 -- Birth of Helen Muir.
1888 -- Trip to Mt. Rainier ; editor and contributor of Picturesque California, two volumes.
1890 -- Alaska trip to Muir Glacier; death of Dr. Strentzel; Muir family move to mansion.
1890 -- Yosemite becomes a National Park.
1892 -- Founding of the Sierra Club , end of ranching career for John Muir.
1893 -- Trip to Europe with William Keith.
1894 -- Mountains of California published.
1898 -- Death of Mrs. Strentzel.
1899 -- Mt. Rainier National Park established; member of Harriman Alaska Expedition.
1901 -- Our National Parks published.
1903 -- Theodore Roosevelt visited Yosemite.
1904 -- World tour.
1905 -- Helen ill, Adamana, Arizona for recovery.
1906 -- Petrified Forest becomes a national monument; death of Louie Strentzel Muir, August 6.
1906 -- San Francisco earthquake, repair of house, marriage of Wanda to Thomas Hanna.
1908 -- Grand Canyon National Park established.
1907-1913 -- Fight to save Hetch Hetchy Valley; Stickeen (1909), My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), The Yosemite (1912), and The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913) published.
1910 -- Helen married Buel Funk.
1911-12 -- Trip to South America and Africa (73 years old.)
1914 -- December 24: death of John Muir of pneumonia in a Los Angeles Hospital.
1915 -- A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, and Cruise of The Corwin published.
1916 -- Congress creates National Park Service .
1942 -- Death of Wanda Muir Hanna, 60 years.
1964 -- Death of Helen Muir Funk, 78 years.
1964 -- John Muir House declared a National Historic Site , land acquisition completed in 1966.
1982 -- John Muir House is 100 years old.
1988 -- John Muir 150th Birthday Year Celebration.
1989 -- April 21st annually proclaimed John Muir Day by California Governor, bill 476.
1992 -- John Muir House is 110 years old.
Source:
John Muir National Historic Site
Received: July 21, 1994