8 Timeline

1840 Claude Monet is born 1858 Monet meets the painter Eugene Boudin 1859 Monet moves to Paris and enters the Académie Suisse 1861 Monet joins the Zouaves 1862 Monet meets Bazille, Renoir, and Sisley 1865 Monet meets Camille Doncieux 1867 Son Jean is born 1874 Monet exhibits Impression: Sunrise at the first Impressionist exhibition 1878 Son Michel is born 1879 Camille dies 1883 Monet moves into the house at Giverny 1892 Monet marries Alice Hoschedé; Monet begins to paint pictures of the water lilies 1911 Alice dies 1914 Jean dies 1926 Monet dies 1927 Orangerie Museum displays the Water Lilies series TIMELINE OF THE WORLD

The world's first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black is used 1840 The California Gold Rush begins 1848 Vincent van Gogh is born 1853 Florence Nightingale founds the first professional school for nurses in England 1860 The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ends slavery in the United States 1865 The Franco-Prussian war begins 1870 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is published; Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone 1876 The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor 1886 The first Kodak box camera is sold 1888 The Eiffel Tower is built in Paris, France 1889 Marie Curie discovers radium 1898 Walt Disney is born 1901 The New York World newspaper publishes

crossword puzzles for the first time 1913 World War I begins 1914 The Jazz Singer debuts as the first talking film 1927