| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1755 | | British deport French settlers of Acadia | | Evangeline, Acadia, Longfellow |
| 1836 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins teaching modern languages at Harvard. | He lasted until 1854, though he complained early on, "Perhaps the worst thing in a college life is this having your mind constantly a playmate for boys,--constantly adapting to them, instead of stretching out and grappling with men's minds."
Today Harvard's Longfellow Institute honors American multi-lingualism. | |
| 1841 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor" | | bones, Indians |
| 1841 | | Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems | | maritime |
| 1842 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery | | slavery, abolition |
| 1842 | | With the encouragement of his friend Charles Sumner, Longfellow publishes "Poems on Slavery | | |
| 1847 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline" | | |
| 1855 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Hiawatha" | | |
| 1856 | | Senator Charles Sumner caned after delivering his speech "Crime Against Kansas | | Longfellow Civil War |
| 1858 | | Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" | Longfellow's poem rivaled Thanksgiving in American memory and helped perpetuate the mystique of the spinning wheel. See The Age of Homespun, page 27. | poetry, pilgrims" plymouth |
| 1861 | | Longfellow publishes "Paul Revere's Ride" in Atlantic Monthly | | revolution |
| 1863 | | Longfellow , "Tales of a Wayside Inn" | | |
| 1879 | | Children give Longfellow a chair from the "spreading chestnut" | | trees |
| 1901 | | Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House | | museum |
