| Timeline |
| 1829 |
Born 12 September |
| 1851 |
Graduates from Hamilton College |
| 1856 |
Practices law in Chicago |
| 1860 |
Assistant editor of The Hartford Press |
| 1861 |
Editor of The Hartford Press |
| 1870 |
My Summer in a Garden published |
| 1872 |
Saunterings published |
| 1873 |
The Gilded Age (with Mark Twain), published |
| 1874 |
Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing published |
| 1876 |
My Winter on the Nile and In the Levant published |
| 1877 |
Being a Boy published |
| 1878 |
In the Wilderness published |
| 1881 |
Biography of Washington Irving |
| 1883 |
A Roundabout Journey, in Europe published |
| 1884 |
Joins editorial staff of Harper's Magazine |
| 1886 |
Their Pilgrimage published |
| 1888 |
On Horseback, in the Southern States published |
| 1889 |
Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada, A Little Journey in the World published, and That Fortune published |
| 1891 |
Our Italy, southern California and As We Were Saying published |
| 1893 |
As We Go published |
| 1894 |
The Golden House published |
| 1896 |
The Relation of Literature to Life published |
| 1897 |
The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote published |
| 1898 |
First president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters |
| 1900 |
Dies 20 October |
| 1902 |
Fashions in Literature published |
