1839–40 Lectures on "The Present Age."
1840 The transcendentalist journal The Dial first published.
1841 Publishes Essays: First Series; daughter Edith is born November 22.
1841–42 Lectures on "The Times."
1842 Son, Waldo, dies of scarlet fever; Emerson succeeds Margaret Fuller as editor of The Dial.
1844 Son, Edward Waldo, is born July 10; publishes Essays: Second Series.
1845–46 Lectures on "Representative Men."
1846 Publishes Poems in December.
1847–48 Second trip to Europe; visits Carlyle and other important literary figures.
1849 Publishes Nature; Addresses, and Lectures in September.
1850 Publishes Representative Men in January.
1853 Eighty-four-year-old mother dies.
1856 Publishes English Traits in August.
1862 Lectures on "American Civilization" in Washington, D.C.; meets President Lincoln.
1866 Receives honorary doctorate from Harvard.
1867 Publishes May-Day and Other Pieces in April.
1870 Publishes Society and Solitude in March; lectures on "Natural History of Intellect."
1872 Emerson's home burns.
1872–73 Third trip abroad.
1875 Publishes Letters and Social Aims in December.
1876 Publishes Selected Poems.
1882 Dies of pneumonia on April 27 and is buried in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
