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This is a succinct chronology of the very dense life of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]].
For a complete chronology, refer to the excellent book by Brian W. Pugh : ''[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1904312551?tag=societesherlo-21 A Chronology of the Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]''.

For clarity, we have omitted in this chronology his publications ([[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:Complete Works|see here]]), his cricket matches ([[Cricket|see here]]), his football matches ([[Football|see here]])...

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<td width="8%" align="left" valign="top">1859</td>
<td width="15%" align="left" valign="top">22 May</td>
<td width="77%" align="left" valign="top">Birth of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh. He is the second child of [[Charles Altamont Doyle]] and [[Mary Josephine Elizabeth Foley|Mary Foley]].
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<td align="left" valign="top">24 May</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He is baptised [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle]] at St Mary's Cathedral, Broughton, Edinburgh.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1862</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Before June</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The Conan Doyle family resided at 3 Tower Bank (now Figgate Bank), Portobello, Edinburgh.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1864</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Early year</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] (aged 5) wrote his first fiction : [[The Story of a Bengal Tiger]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1866</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">n.d.</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] lived with [[Mary Burton]] at Liberton Bank House, Edinburgh.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Summer</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He and his mother took a holiday in King's County (County Offaly) and Lismore (Waterford), Ireland.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">n.d.</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The Conan Doyle family resided at 3 Sciennes Hill Place, Newington, Edinburgh.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Autumn</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Aged 7, he attended Newington Academy, 8 Arniston Place, Edinburgh. He had [[Eugène Marie Chantrelle]] (the most notorious murderer in Scotland) as French teacher.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1867</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">15 September</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] was enrolled for 2 years at Hodder House, the preparatory school for Stonyhurst.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1868</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">May</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] made his first communion at Hodder House.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1869</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Mid Sept.</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] was enrolled for 5 years at Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe, Lancashire, a Catholic shcool run by Jesuits.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1870</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">October</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] wote his first poem [[A Student's Dream]] sent to his mother in a letter.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1872</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">21 July</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] was confirmed by Bishop Richard Roskell of Nottingham at Stonyhurst College.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1873</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">November</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] and another student Arthur Roskell launched a journal ''The Stonyhurst Figaro''. Conan Doyle contributed with 'Some wicked jokes' and 2 poems ([[The Abbot]] and [[After the Battle]]).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">He received his first prize, a book by George Lillie Craik, ''"The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties"'', inscribed "Merenti Collegium Stonyhurst".</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1874</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">16 February</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">On Shrove Monday, [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] played cricket.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">25 May</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">On Whit Monday, he played cricket.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Nov-Dec</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">On 21 november, he arrived in London at Euston Station. For 3 weeks, he stayed with [[Ann Martha Doyle|Aunt Annette]] and [[Richard Doyle|Uncle Richard]] at 7 Finborough Road, London, and with [[Jane Henrietta Hawkins|Aunt Jane]] and [[James Edmund William Doyle|Uncle James]] at 54 Clifton Gardens, London. He met also Mrs Robertson, Louis and Mr Williams.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">He saw [[Henry Irving]] in Hamlet at the Lyceum. He visited St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London (where he saw the 67,000 Henry-Martini rifles, swords and bayonets, and instruments of torture), Temple Bar, the Guild Hall, and Madame Tussaud in the Baker Street Bazaar.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1875</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">June</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] passed his Matriculation Examination with in the honours division. He was placed 81.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">28 July</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He passed his London Matriculation Examination at Stonyhurst College.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">September</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He stayed in Liverpool with the Rockcliffe family on route to Stella Matutina, a jesuit college in Feldkirch, Austria, where he spent a year to improve his German.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Oct.-Nov.</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He edited the Feldkirchian Gazette, a student magazine on school notebooks.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"> 1876</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">26-28 June</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] left Feldkirch to Lindau, Rorschach, Basle where he stayed overnight on 27 june, and arrived in Paris, France on 28 june.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">28 June</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He sojourned several weeks in Paris, 65 Avenue de Wagram, in his great-uncle and godfather, [[Michael Edward Conan]]. Conan's name has ben given in tribute to him.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Summer</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He arrived back at 2 Argyle Park Terrace, Edinburgh.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">October</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Conan Doyle enrolled at Edinburgh University of Medicine. Two of his teachers, the surgeon of the hospital, [[Joseph Bell]], and [[Professor Rutherford]], served as a model of inspiration for his characters of [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[Professor Challenger]] ([[The Lost World]]).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1877</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">March</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He polished up his French, German and moral philosophy for a preliminary examination in the arts. He gained a worthy pass.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">18 May to 6 July</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He attended the Botanical class and the Vegetable Histology & Practical Botany class at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) in order to graduate in medicine at the Edinburgh University.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">August</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">The Conan Doyle family probably moved to 23 George Square, Edinburgh.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">August-September</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He spent holidays at Miss Fullerton's home at East Knowe, Brodick, Isle of Arran, Scotland. He was accompanied by his Stonyhurst friend Jimmy Ryan, and his sisters Lottie and Connie, and his father for a short time.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1878</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">April</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] became doctor's assistant to Dr. Charles Sidney Richardson, Nelson Terrace, 80 Spital Hill, Sheffield for 3 weeks.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">May</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He spent a few weeks with Aunt Jane Doyle, Uncle Henry Doyle and Uncle James Doyle at their home at 54 Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, London.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">22 May</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He saw [[Henry Irving]] in ''Louis XI''.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">26 May</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He visited his Uncle Richard Doyle and Aunt Annette Doyle at Finborough Road, Chelsea.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">28 May</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He spent the day at Westminster Aquarium.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">29 May</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He visited the Royal Academy.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">Summer</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He worked as assistant to Dr. Henry Francis Elliott of Cliffe House, Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shrophire.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">After Summer</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He became outpatient clerk to Dr. [[Joseph Bell]] at Edinburgh University.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"> 1879</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">september </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of his first short story: [[The Mystery of Sasassa Valley]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"> 1880</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">february</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He started as surgeon on the whaler Hope bound in Arctic for 6 months.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1881</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">october</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He graduated in medicine and surgery.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1882</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">january </td>
<td align="left" valign="top"> He sailed as a doctor aboard the Mayumba who sailed to the coast of Guinea (West Africa).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">may</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He opened an office in Plymouth and in Southsea, Portsmouth. </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1885</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">6 august</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He married [[Louisa Hawkins]], the sister of one of his patients.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1886</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">march-april</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[A Study in Scarlet]], the first Sherlock Holmes adventure, rejected by several publishers before finding a buyer (accepted by a letter dated 30 october 1886 by [[Ward, Lock & Co.]]).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1887</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">26 january</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He was initiated as a [[Freemasonry|freemason]] of the Phoenix Lodge No. 257, Southsea, Portsmouth.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"> </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">december </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[A Study in Scarlet]] in the [[Beeton's Christmas Annual]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"> 1889</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">january</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Birth of his daughter Mary Louise.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">february</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[Micah Clarke]], ''"It was the first solid corner-stone laid for some sort of literary reputation"'' Conan Doyle wrote in his memories.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"> 1890</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">february</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">American magazine [[Lippincott's Monthly Magazine]] published [[The Sign of Four]], the second adventure of Sherlock Holmes. Then in april, he began writing [[The White Company]] which will end in july 1890 (published from january to december 1891 in [[The Cornhill Magazine]]).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">april</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of his novel, [[The Firm of Girdlestone]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">december</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Doyle closed his medical practice in Portsmouth and decided to specialize in ophthalmology.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1891</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">january</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He studied ophthalmology in Vienna (Austria). </td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">march</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He returnedto London via Paris to meet Landolt, the French specialist in ophthalmology.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">End march</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He opened a practice in London, 2 Upper Wimpole Street.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">july</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[A Scandal in Bohemia]], the first adventure of Sherlock Holmes as a short story in [[The Strand Magazine]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">august</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Conan Doyle gave up medicine and became a full time writer. He moved to South Norwood (12 Tennison Road).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1892</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">summer</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He made a trip in Norway with [[Jerome K. Jerome]]. He discovered the pleasure of skiing in Switzerland and introduce this practice as a recreational sport a few months later.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">october</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[The Great Shadow]] (story where the author expressed his fascination for Napoleon).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">november</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Birth of his son [[Arthur Alleyne Kingsley Conan Doyle|Kingsley]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1893</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">May</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[The Refugees]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">august</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">His wife Louisa diagnosed with tuberculosis.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">october</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Death of his father [[Charles Altamont Doyle]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">december</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[The Strand Magazine]] published [[The Adventure of the Final Problem]], where Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty fell at Reichenbach Falls (Switzerland) freeing the author who wishes to devote to a "more serious literary work.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1894</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">december</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[The Parasite]] and [[The Medal of Brigadier Gerard]] (Napoleonic story announcing a long series).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1895</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">spring</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He returned to England. He decided to build a house in Surrey when he was told that the air is even better than Davos to treat tuberculosis.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">july</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard]] in [[The Strand Magazine]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">november</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He travelled to Egypt for the sake of his wife, during the completion of the construction of his house in Surrey. He will find the inspiration for [[The Tragedy of the Korosko]] (published in 1898). He witnessed the conflict between the British and the dervishes. He became war correspondent for [[The Westminster Gazette]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1896</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">november</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[Rodney Stone]] (novel about boxing).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1897</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">january</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of his first pirate adventure of [[Captain Sharkey]] in [[Pearson's Magazine]]. Two others will follow in march and may.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">15 march</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">While visiting London, Conan Doyle falls in love for a woman in her twenties, Jean Leckie. For respect to his wife, he began a platonic relationship.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">may</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[Uncle Bernac]], a Napoleonic novel.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1899</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">12 june</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">First performance of the [[William Gillette]]'s play [[Sherlock_Holmes (play 1899)|Sherlock Holmes]], written with Conan Doyle. Gillette played the detective during 35 years.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1900</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">february</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Conan Doyle went to South Africa in Bloemfontein as a doctor during the Boer War. He met the young Winston Churchill. He returned to England on 10 july.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">october</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He is defeated in parliamentary elections as an Unionist candidate in Edinburgh.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">december</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of his essay [[The Great Boer War]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1901</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">august</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication in [[The Strand Magazine]] of [[The Hound of the Baskervilles]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1902</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">16 january</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of his essay [[The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct]], which was published in twenty countries.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">24 october</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Knighted by the king, he becomes '''Sir''' Arthur Conan Doyle after thinking refuse this honor (in [[The Adventure of the Three Garridebs]], Sherlock receives the same proposal in june 1902 but he refused it).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1903</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">september</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">After the success of [[The Hound of the Baskervilles]], an American publisher offered him 45,000 pounds for thirteen new adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle accepted and resurrected his hero in [[The Adventure of the Empty House]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1904</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">january</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He continued his research on the Middle Ages, interrupted by the Boer War, to write a novel, whose action takes place before [[The White Company]], which will be serialized in [[The Strand Magazine]] in 1905 and 1906 under the title [[Sir Nigel]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1905</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">august</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">On the occasion of the signing of the Entente Cordiale, he received at his home in Surrey, a delegation of French naval officers, on an official visit, led by Vice Admiral Caillard.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1906</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">january</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">New electoral defeat.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">july</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Death of his wife [[Louisa Hawkins|Louisa]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1907</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">18 may</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">[[George Edalji]] was exonerated.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"> </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">18 september</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He married [[Jean Elizabeth Leckie|Jean Leckie]]. [[George Edalji]] was invited.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">november</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He moved to Crowborough in Sussex.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1909</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">17 march</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Birth of his son [[Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle|Denis]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">25 may</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He struggled to avoid the death penalty on Oscar Slater, accused of murder, the death penalty was commuted to life in prison and innocence will be recognized in 1927.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1910</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">19 november</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Birth of his son Adrian (who will wrote ''[[The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes]]'' with [[John Dickson Carr]]).</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1912</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">april</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[The Lost World]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">21 december</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Birth of his daughter Lena Jean.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1913</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">11 march</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Campaigning for the Channel Tunnel.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1914</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">27 may</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He started a lecturingtour about literature in North America and Canada.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">august</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">After declaration of war with Germany, he formed a group of local volunteers.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"> </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">september</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of [[The Valley of Fear]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1916</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">may</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">During the war, Conan Doyle was reporting on French and Italian fronts.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1917</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">october</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of the short story [[His Last Bow]] where Sherlock Holmes appears on the eve of the First World War, which is the latest adventure of the hero from a chronological point of view.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1918</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">28 october</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">His eldest son Kingsley died of the Spanish flu, weakened by a war wound received during the Battle of the Somme.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1920</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">march</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Conan Doyle met Harry Houdini, and became friends.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"> </td>
<td align="left" valign="top">september</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He started a lecturing tour on spiritualism in Australia and New Zealand.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">30 december</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Death of his mother. His wife discovered mediumnic talents.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1922</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">1 september</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"> Publication of [[The Coming of the Fairies]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1924</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">september</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of his autobiography [[Memories and Adventures]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1925</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">summer</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He opened The Psychic Bookshop, 2 Victoria Street, London.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1927</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">march</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Publication of its latest Sherlock Holmes short story in [[Liberty]] magazine, [[The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place]].</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">1928</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">november</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">He started a trip to South Africa throught Egypt.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">7 july</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">Exhausted by lectures worldwide, he died of a heart attack at his home.</td>
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