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			1755 British deport French settlers of Acadia

1836 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begins teaching modern languages at Harvard.

			1841 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"
1841 Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems

			1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery
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

1858 Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish"

			1861 Longfellow publishes "Paul Revere's Ride" in Atlantic Monthly

1863 Longfellow , "Tales of a Wayside Inn"

			1879 Children give Longfellow a chair from the "spreading chestnut"

1901 Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House

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