| 1874 |
Born Nov. 30, Clifton, Prince Edward Island |
| 1876 |
Mother, Clara Macneill Montgomery dies of tuberculosis |
| 1883 |
Wreck of the ship the Marco Polo
in Cavendish |
| 1890-91 |
Trip to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to visit LMM's
father and new wife |
| 1893-94 |
Attends Prince of Wales College and earns First Class
Teacher's licence |
| 1894-95 |
Teaches school in Bideford, PEI |
| 1895-96 |
Attends Dalhousie University in Halifax |
| 1896-97 |
Teaches in Belmont, PEI and becomes engaged to Edwin
Simpson, a cousin |
| 1897-98 |
Teaches in Lower Bedeque, PEI; falls in love with Herman
Leard; breaks engagement to Simpson; Returns to Cavendish to live
with Grandmother Macneill when Grandfather dies |
| 1901-02 |
Works as newspaperwoman on Daily Echo in Halifax |
| 1902 |
Begins a life-long correspondence with Ephraim Weber;
becomes close friends with cousin Frede Campbell and with Cavendish
teacher Nora Lefurgey |
| 1903 |
Ewan Macdonald becomes Presbyterian minister in Cavendish;
begins life-long correspondence with George Boyd MacMillan |
| 1906 |
Secretly engaged to Ewan Macdonald, who leaves to study
in Scotland where he meets MacMillan |
| 1908 |
Publication of the best selling Anne of Green Gables |
| 1909 |
Anne of Avonlea |
| 1910 |
Kilmeny of the Orchard; Macdonald accepts parish
in Leaskdale, Ontario; LMM meets Earl and Lady Grey in September;
in November travels to Boston to meet her publisher, L.C. Page |
| 1911 |
The Story Girl; Grandmother Macneill dies; marries
Ewan Macdonald at Park Corner on 5 July; honeymoons in Scotland and
England for three months; home to Leaskdale, Ontario |
| 1912 |
Chronicles of Avonlea; Chester Cameron born
July 7th |
| 1913 |
The Golden Road; trip to
PEI |
| 1914 |
First World War is declared; Hugh Alexander dies at
birth on 13th August |
| 1915 |
Anne of the Island; Ewan Stuart born October
7th |
| 1916 |
The Watchman and Other Poems |
| 1917 |
Anne's House of Dreams; polls her first vote |
| 1918 |
First World War ends; LMM suffers Spanish flu; goes
to PEI to help nurse sick at Park Corner |
| 1919 |
Frede Campbell Macfarlane dies of Spanish flu in Montreal;
Ewan suffers a nervous breakdown; Rainbow Valley; LMM sells
rights for Anne of Green Gables to Page who sells movie rights
immediately |
| 1920 |
Further Chronicles of Avonlea published illegally
LMM begins eight-year lawsuit with Page Co.; Rilla of Ingleside |
| 1922 |
Car accident in Zephyr and Ewan is sued and refuses
to pay; trip to Muskoka |
| 1923 |
Emily of New Moon; LMM first Canadian woman
to become Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in Britain |
| 1925 |
Emily Climbs; Church Union vote in Canada |
| 1926 |
The Blue Castle; move to Norval, Ontario |
| 1927 |
Emily's Quest; presented to the Prince of Wales |
| 1928 |
Nora Lefurgey Campbell reappears in LMM's life and
lives in a Toronto flat |
| 1929 |
Magic for Marigold; stock market crash affects
LMM's finances |
| 1930 |
Goes to Prince Albert to rekindle 1890's friendships |
| 1931 |
A Tangled Web |
| 1933 |
Pat of Silver Bush |
| 1934 |
Chester and Luella's baby Luella is born; Courageous
Women |
| 1935 |
Mistress Pat; LMM elected to Literary and Artistic
Institute of France; moves to 210 Riverside Drive, Toronto("Journey's
End"); Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
| 1936 |
Anne of Windy Poplars; Cavendish chosen as site
for National Park on Prince Edward Island |
| 1937 |
Green Gables site opens in Cavendish; Jane of Lantern
Hill |
| 1939 |
Anne of Ingleside; last visit to PEI |
| 1942 |
Dies on 24 April; lies in state at Green Gables and
is buried in Cavendish Cemetery (where Ewan Macdonald joins her one
year later) |
