John Muir

Here's a time line of John Muir's life:

• 1838 - Born in Dunbar, Scotland
• 1849 - Muir's family immigrated to the United States, starting a farm near Portage, Wisconsin
• 1860 - Enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
• 1864 - Left school and travelled to Southern Ontario to join his brother who had left the year before to avoid the draft during the Civil War
• 1866 - Returned to the United States, settling in Indianapolis to work in a wagon wheel factory
• March 1867 - An accident changed the course of his life: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. When he regained his sight, "he saw the world—and his purpose—in a new light".
• September 1867 - Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Kentucky to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
• 1868 - Sailed to Cuba. Afterwards, he sailed to New York City and booked passage to California.
• 1878 - Served as a guide and artist for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey on the survey of the 39th parallel across the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah
• 1880 - Married Louisa Strentzel. He and her father-in-law managed the orchards on the family 2600 acre farm in Martinez, California
• 1892 - The Sierra Club is founded and Muir is elected as the first president of the club. Muir remained president until his death.
• 1896 - Muir became associated with Gifford Pinchot, who was the first head of the United States Forest Service and a national leader in the conservation movement, which contrasted greatly with Muir's preservationist view
• 1897 - Muir and Pinchot's friendship ended late in the summer of 1897 when Pinchot released a statement to a Seattle newspaper supporting sheep grazing in forest reserves
• 1899 - Accompanied railroad executive E. H. Harriman and esteemed scientists on the famous exploratory voyage along the Alaska coast aboard the luxuriously refitted 250-foot (76 m) steamer, the George W. Elder
• 1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt accompanied Muir on a visit to Yosemite. Muir was able to convince Roosevelt that the best way to protect the valley was through federal control and management
• 1903 - Became a naturalized citizen of the United States
• 1914 - Died, aged 76, at California Hospital in Los Angeles of pneumonia