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 graduates 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.

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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.

1889, June==

Millet and his wife Lily return to England. Shortly after their arrival they travel to Paris to the newly erected Eiffel Tower at the Universal Exposition of 1889. Several of Millet's pictures are exhibited in two different locations. Piping Times of Peace is show in the British Sections. Handmaiden and A Difficult Duet are shown in the United States Section. The Millets settle in their home, Russell House, in Broadway, England, for the summer season.

1889, June 18

Millet writes to Stoddard from Broadway, England, inviting him to stay in his home, Russell House. and that his wife will be delighted to see him.

1889, [July 28?]

In another letter dated "Sunday" (possibly written on July 28, 1889] Millet urges Stoddard to visit, but to come alone (Stoddard had evidently written that he might bring a guest). Millet tells Stoddard there is a nearby monastery that Stoddard can visit and where Stoddard is sure to make friends with the father and the boys of the order. Millet says that Henry James often comes to stay. There is no record of Stoddard's visit.

1892, September

The Century Magazine, published in ........., contains an article titled "Francis Davis Millet". CHECK.

1892, August 31.

The Century Magazine for September. Alexandria Gazette, August 31, 1892, page ??.

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 dies on the Titanic.