1828 (May 6): Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross married
1829 (April 16): William Austin Dickinson born
1830 (December 10): Emily Elizabeth Dickinson born
1833 (February 28): Lavinia Norcross Dickinson born
1840: Dickinson family moves from Homestead to Pleasant Street home
1840–47: ED attends Amherst Academy
1847–48: ED spends one year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
1850: Revival in Amherst
1853 (March 24): Benjamin Franklin Newton dies
1855 (Winter): ED and Lavinia travel to Washington to visit their father, Congressman Edward Dickinson; return trip via Philadelphia, home of Charles Wadsworth
1855: Dickinson family moves back to Homestead on Main Street
1856 (July 1): Austin Dickinson and Susan Gilbert married
1858–65: Period of ED’s greatest poetic productivity (more than 1,000 poems)
1858–61: ED writes three “Master Letters”
1861: Civil War begins
1862 (April 15): ED writes first letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
1864, 1865: ED travels twice to Boston for eye care
1865: Civil War ends
1870 (August 16): Higginson visits Homestead, meets ED for first time
1874 (June 16): Edward Dickinson dies
1875 (June 15): Emily Norcross Dickinson suffers stroke
1878 (January 16): Samuel Bowles dies
1878–84: ED develops relationship with Otis Phillips Lord, considers marriage
1882 (April 1): Charles Wadsworth dies
1882 (November 14): Emily Norcross Dickinson dies
1883 (October 5): Thomas Gilbert Dickinson (nephew) dies; ED leaves home for first time in at least fifteen years
1884 (March 13): Otis Phillips Lord dies
1884 (June 14): ED collapses; early stages of final illness
1885 (August 12): Helen Hunt Jackson dies
1886 (May 15): ED dies; funeral held May 19
1890 (November 12): First edition of ED’s Poems published
1894 (November 21): First edition of Letters of Emily Dickinson published