Chronology

Dates	David Locke	Arts and Music	Politics
1830s	1833 Born in Vestal, New York	1839 Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher	1832 South Carolina threatens secession over the "Tariff of Abominations"
1840s	1843 Leaves school; apprenticed to Corland N.Y. Democrat	1842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, born 1848 Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto	1848 Gold Rush begins U.S. victory in the Mexican-American War
1850s	1850 Finishes apprenticeship; works as itenerate printer both South and North 1852 Founds Journal in Bucyrus, OH 1858 Meets Lincoln	1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter 1851 Herman Melville, Moby Dick 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin 1855 Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1859 Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species	1854 Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act 1859 John Brown and followers seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA
1860s	Published the first of the Nasby Letters on March 21, 1861 in Findlay, Ohio 1863 Visits Lincoln in Washinton 1864 Publication of The Nasby Papers 1865 Becomes editor of the Toledo Blade. 1867 Meets Thomas Nast. Reads "Cusssid be Canaan!" in Boston	Gustav Mahler begins compositions 1868 Louisa May Alcott, Little Women	1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected 1861 South Carolina secedes 1862 Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation 1862 1863 Battle of Gettysburg 1868 Ku Klux Klan founded
1870s	1871 Moves to New York as editor of Evening Mail 1876 Purchased controlling interest in the Toledo Blade 1879 Retires as editor of Evening Mail	Sergei Rachmaninoff 1876 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	1875 Civil Rights Act 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn
1880s	1880 Tours Europe Publishes the last Nasby letter on December 26, 1867 1886 Elected alderman of Third Ward, Toledo 1888 Dies of tuberculosis		1880 Assasination of Pres. Garfield 1881 Tuskeegee Institute founded
1890s and beyond	The Toledo Blade was discontinued on October 9, 1924.	1890 Emily Dickinson, Poems	Blacks are still deprived of the vote in the South