Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1880 Returns to England from U.S. Wounded at Battle of Maiwand; escapes to British lines. Suffers enteric fever at Peshawar. Returns to London on Orontes. Stays at private hotel in Strand. Signs on as ship’s doctor with Arctic whaler; 7-month voyage. Initial interest in spiritualism, paranormal. Gladstone takes office again as prime minister. Swan and Edison devise first practical electric lights. Birth of Douglas MacArthur.
1881 Meets John H. Watson. Takes up residence in Baker Street. A Study in Scarlet. Meets Sherlock Holmes. Moves into Baker Street. Bachelor of Medicine rec’d. Signs on as ship’s doctor with West African steamer. Nearly dies of fever. Death of Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Carlyle. Irish Land Act. Flogging abolished in army and navy. Birth of painter Pablo Picasso. Tsar Alexander II assassinated; President James Garfield assassinated.
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1882 Renounces Catholic faith. Joins George Budd, medical schoolmate, in practice in Plymouth. Becomes concerned about Budd’s ethics and sets up own practice in Southsea, Portsmouth. Death of Charles Darwin. Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy. Franklin Delano Roosevelt born.
1883 “The Speckled Band.” Publishes first story. Death of Karl Marx, Richard Wagner. French expand in Indochina. Birth of John Maynard Keynes. Mark Twain writes the first book on the typewriter.
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1884 Travels to America, woos Lucy Ferrier in San Francisco.2 Begins first novel. First deep tube (underground) railroad; General Gordon reaches Khartoum. Germans occupy South-West Africa. Birth of Harry Truman.
1885 Marries Louise Hawkins. Lord Salisbury (Conservative) becomes prime minister. Death of General Charles George Gordon in Khartoum. Germany annexes Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Indian National Congress formed.
1886 “The Beryl Coronet.” Returns to England. Weds Lucy Ferrier, buys practice in Kensington. Gladstone, Salisbury, serve as prime minister. Irish Home Rule Bill. Bonaparte and Orléans families banished from France. Birth of painter Diego Rivera.
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1887 “The Resident Patient,” “The Reigate Squires.” Publishes A Study in Scarlet. 1st wife dies in December. Publishes A Study in Scarlet. Victoria celebrates golden anniversary of her reign. Field Marshal Montgomery born. Birth of painter Marc Chagall. Death of Henry Ward Beecher, Jenny Lind. Birth of artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
1888 The Valley of Fear, “The Noble Bachelor,” “The Yellow Face,”* “The Greek Interpreter,” The Sign of Four, “Silver Blaze,” “The Cardboard Box.” Brother Henry dies. Meets and marries Mary Morstan. Buys practice in Paddington. Jack the Ripper killings begin. T. E. Lawrence born. Kaiser Wilhelm II takes throne. Hertz discovers radio waves. Jim Thorpe born.
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1889 “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “Man with the Twisted Lip,” “A Case of Identity,” “The Blue Carbuncle,” “The Five Orange Pips,” “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” “The Stock-Broker’s Clerk,” “The Naval Treaty,” “The Engineer’s Thumb,” “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” “The Crooked Man.” Publishes The Sign of Four in Lippincott’s Magazine. Daughter Mary Louise born. Publishes Micah Clarke, The Sign of Four. Cecil Rhodes’s British South Africa Company granted royal charter; Barnum & Bailey’s Circus appears in London. Birth of Adolf Hitler. Paris Exhibition and opening of Eiffel Tower. Strowger files for patent for direct-dial telephone.
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1890 “The Red- Headed League,” “The Copper Beeches,” “The Dying Detective.”* Publishes book edition of The Sign of Four. Publishes White Company. Oscar Wilde publishes Picture of Dorian Gray. Suicide of Vincent Van Gogh. Birth of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Global influenza epidemics.
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1891 “The Final Problem”; travels as “Sigerson.” Sells Paddington practice, returns to Kensington. Arranges for publication of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “The Red- Headed League,” “A Case of Identity,” “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” “The Five Orange Pips,” “The Man with the Twisted Lip” in Strand. Mary Morstan dies, possibly in early 1892. Abandons Southsea practice, writes Doings of Raffles Haw. Returns to London and opens practice in Devonshire Place. Soon decides to give up medicine. First stories of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes begin to appear in Strand Magazine. Thomas Hardy publishes Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Triple Alliance (Germany-Italy-Austria) renewed. Death of Parnell, leader of Irish Home Rule. Zipper invented. Widespread famine in Russia. Earthquake in Japan kills almost 10,000 people.
Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1892 Continues to travel. “The Blue Carbuncle,” “The Speckled Band,” “The Engineer’s Thumb,” “The Noble Bachelor,” “The Beryl Coronet,” “The Copper Beeches,” “Silver Blaze” published in Strand. Takes up skiing. Son Kingsley born. Gladstone again becomes prime minister. Death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Invention of diesel engine by Rudolf Diesel. Birth of John Paul Getty. Utah Constitution bans polygyny.
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1893 Settles in Montpellier to conduct coal-tar derivatives research. “The Cardboard Box,” “The Yellow Face,” “The Stock-Broker’s Clerk,” “The ‘Gloria Scott’,” “The Musgrave Ritual,” “The Reigate Squires,” “The Crooked Man,” “The Resident Patient,” “The Greek Interpreter,” “The Naval Treaty,” “The Final Problem” published in Strand. Charles Doyle dies. Louise diagnosed with TB. Remainder of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes stories published in Strand. Premiere of Under the Clock, an “extravaganza” in one act starring Charles H. E. Brookfield as Sherlock Holmes. Franco-Russian alliance signed. Chicago World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition). Second International Frano-Russian alliance signed.
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1894 Returns to London. “The Empty House,” “The Second Stain,”*3 “The Golden Pince-Nez,” “The Norwood Builder.” Sells practice, returns to Baker Street. Successful lecture tour in America. Play Waterloo performed. Lord Rosebery becomes prime minister. Dreyfus case begins in France. 1st steel-framed skyscraper built in Chicago. Nicholas II becomes czar. Sino-Japanese War commences.
1895 “Wisteria Lodge,”* “The Three Students,” “The Solitary Cyclist,” “Black Peter,” “The Bruce-Partington Plans.” Buys land in Hindhead for home; travels to Egypt. Publishes Stark Munro Letters. Salisbury regains office of prime minister. Death of Lord Randolph Churchill. H.G. Wells publishes The Time Machine. Lumiere brothers hold public film exhibitions in Paris. Röntgen discovers X-rays. Gillette invents safety razor. Sino-Japanese War. Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey born.
Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1896 “The Veiled Lodger,” “The Sussex Vampire,” “The Missing Three-Quarter.” Travels up Nile. Serves as war correspondent for British/ Dervish fighting. Publishes Brigadier Gerard and Rodney Stone. Cz
ar Nicholas II visits London. New evidence in Dreyfus case suppressed. Alfred Nobel dies, Nobel prizes created. First modern Olympics held in Athens. Cracker Jacks, Tootsie Rolls, and S&H Green Stamps introduced.
1897 “The Abbey Grange,” “The Devil’s Foot.” Meets and falls in love with Jean Leckie. Publishes Uncle Bernac. Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. First World Zionist Congress. Klondike gold rush begins.
1898 “The Dancing Men.” Death of Lewis Carroll. H. G. Wells publishes War of the Worlds. Lord Kitchener defeats Dervishes at Omdurman. Gladstone dies. German naval race with England. Death of Otto von Bismarck. Fashoda crisis, Spanish-American War.
Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1899 “The Retired Colourman,” “Charles Augustus Milverton.” Volunteers for army, rejected. A Duet published. Second Boer War begins. Winston Churchill goes to South Africa as war correspondent. Emperor William II visits England. Kipling writes of “white man's burden.” First magnetic recording of sound. William Gillette produces and stars in Sherlock Holmes, in Syracuse, NY.
1900 “The Six Napoleons.” Serves in hospital unit in South Africa. Writes The Great Boer War; The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Conduct. Stands as Unionist candidate in Edinburgh, loses. Death of Sir Arthur Sullivan, Oscar Wilde. Paris Metro opens. Death of Friedrich Nietzsche. Publication of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. Davis Cup tennis matches inaugurated. First Sherlock Holmes film, Sherlock Holmes Baffled, appears.
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1901 “The Priory School,” “Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax,”* “Thor Bridge.” The Hound of the Baskervilles published in Strand. Publishes The Hound of the Baskervilles. Death of Queen Victoria. Edward VII (“Bertie”) ascends to throne. First British submarine launched. Boxing recognized as legal sport. Negotiations for Anglo-German alliance end without agreement. Assassination of William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt becomes U.S. president. Australia becomes a Commonwealth. Birth of Walt Disney.
1902 “Shoscombe Old Place,” “The Three Garridebs,” “The Three Gables,”* “The Illustrious Client,” “The Red Circle.”* Moves to rooms in Queen Anne Street. Remarries, returns to practice. Knighted. Lord Salisbury retires as prime minister; Arthur Balfour takes office. England signs peace treaty with Boers. Triple Alliance renewed for six years. Anglo-Japanese alliance. 1st recording of Enrico Caruso. Death of Levi Strauss.
Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1903 “The Blanched Soldier,” “The Mazarin Stone,” “The Creeping Man”; Holmes retires. Publishes “The Empty House,” “The Norwood Builder,” “The Dancing Men,” “The Solitary Cyclist.” First stories of The Return of Sherlock Holmes appear in Strand. Publishes Adventures of Gerard. First motor taxis appear in London. First Tour de France (bicycle race). Henry Ford founds Ford Motor Co.
1904 Publishes “The Priory School,” “Black Peter,” “Charles Augustus Milverton,” “The Six Napoleons,” “The Three Students,” “The Golden Pince-Nez,” “The Missing Three-Quarter,” “The Abbey Grange.” First concert of London Symphony Orchestra. Anglo-French Entente. Paris Conference on white slave trade. Russo-Japanese war. Panama Canal started.
Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1905 Publishes “The Second Stain.” Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (L) becomes prime minister. Actor Henry Irving dies. Tangier crisis precipitated by kaiser’s visit. Publication of Einstein’s relativity theory.
1906 Runs again as Unionist candidate, loses. George Edalji case. Becomes involved in Divorce Law Reform Movement. Louise Doyle dies. Publishes Sir Nigel. Social insurance and parliamentary reform proposed by Lloyd George. Franco becomes prime minister of Spain. International ban on women working night shifts.
1907 “The Lion’s Mane.” Marries Jean Leckie. George Edalji released. Through the Magic Door published. Baden-Powell founds Boy Scouts. Triple Entente. 1st Cubist show in Paris. Oscar II, King of Sweden, dies. Immigration to U.S. restricted by law.
Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1908 Publishes “Wisteria Lodge,” “The Bruce- Partington Plans.” Herbert H. Asquith becomes prime minister as Liberal. Strand Magazine publishes My African Journey by Winston Churchill. Bosnian crisis. Jack Johnson becomes first black world heavyweight boxing champion.
1909 Writes Crime of the Congo. Son Denis born. Girl Guides established. First cross-Channel airplane flight. Admiral Peary reaches North Pole.
1910 Publishes “The Devil’s Foot.” Case of Oscar Slater taken up. Son Adrian born. Play Speckled Band first produced in London. Death of King Edward VII (“Bertie”). George V takes throne. Revolution in Portugal. Death of Mark Twain, Florence Nightingale. Union of South Africa formed.
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1911 Publishes “The Red Circle,” “Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.” Death of Sir William Gilbert. Inauguration of air mail service. Chinese Revolution.
1912 Leaves for America to infiltrate Irish secret society; travels to Chicago. Publishes Case of Oscar Slater, Lost World. Daughter Lena Jean born. Royal Flying Corps established. Balkan crisis. Sinking of Titanic.
1913 Publishes “The Dying Detective.” Publishes Poison Belt. Suffragette demonstrations. Balkan War ends. Modern brassière invented.
1914 Returns to England. “His Last Bow.” Assists Holmes in “His Last Bow.” Forms local volunteer force. Writes To Arms! Ulster Crisis; World War I commences. Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand; World War I commences. World War I commences.
Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1915 Publishes The Valley of Fear. Begins 6-vol. history of British Campaign in France and Flanders. Publishes The Valley of Fear. Herbert Asquith remains Prime Minister for Coalition. Poison gas first used in war. Ford sells millionth car. Gallipoli campaign begins.
1916 Visits fronts. Announces conversion to spiritualism. Battle of Jutland; Irish troubles. David Lloyd George (Coalition) becomes prime minister. Bloody battles at Verdun and the Somme. Assassination of Rasputin.
1917 Publishes “His Last Bow.” Publishes “His Last Bow.” Mata Hari executed as spy. U.S. enters the Great War. First large-scale use of tanks. Russian Revolution. John Fitzgerald Kennedy born. “Buffalo Bill” Cody dies.
Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1918 Son Kingsley dies from pneumonia. Publishes New Revelation. Women over 30 allowed to vote. Armistice. Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates. Knute Rockne becomes coach of University of Notre Dame.
1919 Brother Innes dies. Publishes Vital Message. Government of India Act. Peace of Versailles. Weimar Republic established in Germany. Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Death of Andrew Carnegie.
1920 Travels to Australia to promote spiritualism. First Agatha Christie mystery novel published. Clemenceau resigns; Millerand takes over as premier of France. U.S. adopts women’s suffrage.
1921 Publishes “The Mazarin Stone.” Mother dies. Wanderings of a Spiritualist published. Einstein wins Nobel Prize. First Indian Parliament meets.
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1922 Publishes “Thor Bridge.” Lecture tour of Americ
a. Announces belief in fairies, publishes Coming of the Fairies. Lloyd George resigns. Bonar Law becomes prime minister, first to come from an overseas possession. Irish Free State. BBC founded. Mussolini becomes prime minister of Italy. Washington disarmament conference.
1923 Publishes “The Creeping Man.” Returns to America and Canada. Publishes Our American Adventure. Stanley Baldwin becomes prime minister. Hitler’s “Beer Hall Putsch” fails. Paavo Nurmi runs near-four-minute mile.
1924 Publishes “The Sussex Vampire,” “The Three Garridebs.” Publishes Our Second American Adventure; Memories and Adventures. J. Ramsay MacDonald becomes prime minister, heads first Labor government; succeeded by Baldwin. Hitler imprisoned. Leopold and Loeb sentenced for kidnap-slaying of Bobby Franks. J. Edgar Hoover becomes director of F.B.I.
Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1925 Publishes “The Illustrious Client.” Presides over International Spiritualistic Congress in Paris. Austen Chamberlain wins Nobel Peace Prize. Hitler reorganizes Nazi Party, publishes first volume of Mein Kampf. Harold Vanderbilt invents contract bridge.
1926 Publishes “The Blanched Soldier,” “The Lion’s Mane.” Publishes “The Three Gables,” “The Retired Colourman.” Publishes History of Spiritualism; Land of Mist. Queen Elizabeth II born. Germany admitted to League of Nations. Harry Houdini dies.
1927 Publishes “The Veiled Lodger,” “Shoscombe Old Place.” Oscar Slater freed. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes and Pheneas Speaks published. Parliament House opens in Canberra, Australia. First television broadcast. “Black Friday” in Germany, economy collapses. The Jazz Singer (first “talkie”) appears. Academy Awards inaugurated; Babe Ruth hits sixty home runs. Lindbergh flies Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris.
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