1810 Sarah Margaret Fuller, eldest of nine children of Timothy and Margaret Crane Fuller, is born at Cambridgeport, Mass., May 23.
1823- 1824 Student at Misses Prescott's school, Groton, Mass. 1824
1824-1833 Flowering in Cambridge. Companion and confidante of several members of Harvard Class of 1829 and Divinity School Class of 1833: William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Frederick Henry Hedge.
1833 Rustication on Groton farm. Teaches younger children of family: Arthur, Ellen, Richard, Lloyd.
1835 Timothy Fuller dies; Margaret becomes breadwinner and head of family.
1836 First visit to the Emersons in Concord and beginning of lifelong correspondence and friendship with Waldo.
1836-1837 Teacher in Bronson Alcott's Temple School. Gives private instruction in German and Italian.
1837-1839 Teacher in Hiram Fuller's Greene Street School, Providence, R.I. Translates Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe (1839).
1839 Moves family from Groton to Jamaica Plain and takes upon herself burdens as head of the house. Begins Conversation classes in Boston and Cambridge, which continue until 1844.
1840 Edits The Dial from July of this year until July, 1842.
1841 Brook Farm started. Margaret and Emerson are wellwishers but prize individuality too much to join the "association."
1842 Publishes her translation of Correspondence of Fraulein Guderode and Bettina von Arnim.
1843 Western trip with James and Sarah Clarke.
1844 Publishes Summer on the Lakes, an account of her "westering," which attracted the attention of Horace Greeley and was partially responsible for his offering her the job of literary critic for the New York Daily-Tribune. Goes to New York in December.
1845 Meets James Nathan in February and falls deeply in love. Publication of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, an expanded version of the July, 1843, article in The Dial, "The Great Lawsuit: Man vs. Men, Woman vs. Women."
1846 Publication of Papers on Literature and Art, a miscellany of critical articles. Sails for Europe in August with Marcus and Rebecca Spring. Learns of Nathan's engagement to a German girl. Travels in England, Scotland, and France; acts as foreign correspondent for Greeley's Tribune.
1847 Arrives in Rome and meets a young Italian nobleman, the Marchese Ossoli, who offers his love. Leaves Rome to travel in northern Italy and Switzerland. Returns in the autumn and accepts Ossoli. Marriage takes place secretly either in late winter or early spring after Margaret discovers she is to have a child.
1848 Leaves Rome and spends summer in the Abruzzi at Aquila and Rieti while she waits for child. Her son Angelo born on September 5.
1849 Roman Republic proclaimed in February. Margaret with Ossoli during siege of Rome by French in April, May, and June. Appointed director of a hospital and cares for wounded. Reveals the existence of her husband and child to Mrs. Emelyn Story. Writes home to family and friends of marriage. News excites gossip that still colors contemporary accounts.
1850 Goes to Florence after the Republic falls. Sails for America with husband and child on May 17. All three perish in shipwreck at Fire Island,July 19.
1852 Publication of Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli by devoted friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. H. Channing, and J. F. Clarke.
From the book written by:
Brown, Arthur W. Margaret Fuller. New York: Twayne, 1964.