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A Timeline of Events in To Kill a Mockingbird
A Timeline of Events Related to the Novel To Kill a Mockingbird
Year
1883
1923
1926
1927
1928
1929
1931
1933
Time Period
April 28
March 25
January 30
Ch.
Summer
1
1934
Late August
September
Late Spring
1
2
3
4
4
Late August
6
October
7
the next week
four days later
next morning
November 21
that winter
the next day
7
7
7
8
8
1:00 a.m.
8
before Christmas
Christmas
winter
late winter
2 months later
that summer
before the trial
9
10
11
11
12
14
15
1935
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Event
Atticus Finch is born
Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch is born
Nelle Harper Lee is born in Monroeville, Alabama
Jean Louise “Scout” Finch is born
Atticus Finch’s wife, a “Graham from Montgomery,” dies
The Depression begins in the United States
The “Scottsboro Boys” are arrested
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Atticus and Calpurnia are raising Scout and Jem. Dill comes to visit his Aunt
Rachel. He and the Finch children keep watch on the Radley house.
Dill decides to make Boo come out of the Radley house
Dill returns home. Scout starts 1st grade. Walter comes to dinner.
Boo leaves 2 pieces of chewing gum in the Radley’s oak tree.
Jem and Scout find a small box containing two polished pennies
Jem, Scout, and Dill try to look in Boo’s window. Nathan Radley fires a
shotgun.
Scout starts 2nd grade. Jem and Scout find soap carvings of a boy and girl in
the knothole
They find a spelling medal
They find a pocket watch, chain, and knife
The knothole is filled with cement
Tom Robinson arrested
Mrs. Radley dies
Snow. Jem turns the snowman into a caricature of Mr. Avery
Miss Maudie’s house burns down; Boo puts a blanket around Scout’s
shoulders
Atticus agrees to defend Tom Robinson
Cousin Francis calls Atticus a “nigger lover”; Scout fights him
Atticus shoots a mad dog in the street
Jem is punished for cutting off Mrs. Dubose’s camellias
Mrs. Dubose dies
Jem & Scout go to Calpurnia’s church; Aunt Alexandra moves in
Dill returns to Maycomb
Atticus and the children stop a lynch mob at the jail
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A Timeline of Events in To Kill a Mockingbird
during the trial
16­21
next morning
late August
late August
22
24
24
fall
26
mid­October
27
October 31
28­30
1948
January 27
1955
1957
1960
1961
1962
1963
August 28
May 4
June 12
1964
June 21
Scout, Jem, and Dill sit in the balcony. Testimony. Talk with Dolphus
Raymond. Calpurnia comes to court. Tom R. is found guilty.
Calpurnia discovers gifts of food on the porch
Lunching with the ladies of Maycomb
Tom Robinson is shot attempting to escape from prison
Cecil Jacobs brings in a current events article about Hitler persecuting the
Jews in Germany
Bob Ewell loses his job, leaves a hate note at the judge’s home, and stalks
Helen Robinson. Scout prepares for a part in the Halloween pageant.
Ewell attacks Scout and Jem; Boo stabs Ewell. Scout sees Boo and escorts
him home.
William Horner is killed and his wife attacked, leading to the roundup and
jailing of the “Trenton Six”
Emmett Till is kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in Money, Miss.
To Kill a Mockingbird is first submitted to publishers.
To Kill a Mockingbird is published, and wins the 1961 Pulitzer Prize
The Freedom Riders depart on a bus from Washington, D.C.
The film version of To Kill a Mockingbird is released
Medgar Evers assassinated
“Freedom Summer” in Mississippi. Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner,
and James Chaney murdered in Philadelphia, Miss.
Based upon information compiled by
Mary Ellen Snodgrass (Living Literature Series, ©1998, Perma­Bound Books, Inc.),
Andrew Moore (“Studying To Kill a Mockingbird,” http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/gcse/mockingbird.htm#10, ©2001),
and me.
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