Francis Davis Millet Timeline: November 3, 1846 - present
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1846, November 3
Born
1862
Wikipedia says: At age sixteen, during the American Civil War, Millet entered the Massachusetts regiment, first as a drummer boy and then as a surgical assistant (helping his father, a surgeon). Katz says: In 1864, the eighteen-year-old Frank Millet had enlisted as a private, serving first as a drummer boy and then as a surgeon's assistant.
1869
Millet graduated from Harvard with a Master of Arts degree in modern languages and literature.
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Millet worked as a reporter and editor for the Boston Courier.
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Millet worked as a correspondent for the Advertiser at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
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1871
Millet enrolled in the Royal Academy, Antwerp. There, unlike anyone before him, he won all the art prizes the school offered and was officially hailed by the king of Belgium.
1873, May 7
Millet, employed as secretary of the Massachusetts commission to the Vienna exposition, for the first time meets and forms a life-long friendship with the American Charles Francis Adams, Junior.Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 48.
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Millet tours .......
1870s, early
Millet rents a studio in Rome.
1874, end of year
Millet invites Charles Warren Stoddard to join him in the house he (Millet) has rented in Venice. The two lived and sleep together there in an upstairs room.
1875
Stoddard writes columns about Venice and other Italian cities for the San Francisco Chronicle. These include coded references to his affair with Millet.
1875, February
Stoddard, seeking new cities to write about for the San Francisco Chronicle, makes a three-week tour of northern Italy, and Millet accompanies him. Stoddard revises these Chronicle columns twelve years later [in 1887?] for the Catholic magazine Ave Maria, published at Notre Dame University.
1876
Millet returns to Massachusetts and paints murals at Trinity Church in Boston with John LaFarge.
1887
Stoddard revises his stories for the San Francisco Chronicle about a trip with Millet through northern Italy and publishes them in the Catholic magazine Ave Maria, published at Notre Dame University.
1906
Stoddard's recollection of meeting Millet in Venice was published in Boston's National Magazine.
1912, April 10
Millet boarded the RMS Titanic at Cherbourg, France, bound for New York City.
1912, April 15
Millet died on the Titanic.
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