, out of Nantucket.
1843 After working for a while as a clerk in Honolulu, he signs as a seaman on United States
1844 (October) Discharged from United States in Boston MA
1846 Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
1847Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
(August) marries Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of chief justice of Massachusetts
1849Mardi
Redburn, His First Voyage
1850White-Jacket
1851Moby-Dick
1852Pierre
1853 Fire at his publishers destroys most of his books; “Bartleby the Scrivener”
1854 “The Encantadas”
1855Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile;
“Benito Cereno”
1856 Took tour of Europe and the Levant;
The Piazza Tales
1857The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
1860 Takes a tour with his brother Thomas, captain of the clipper “Meteor,” around Cape Horn
1866Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
HM appointed a district inspector of customs
1867 son Malcolm commits suicide by shooting himself
1886 Second son, Stanwix, who went to sea in 1869, dies in a San Francisco hospital
1891 writes Billy Budd, Sailor, which is not published until 1924; dies of a heart attack on September 28, in New York, New York.
