Born on 9 April 1830 in Kingston upon Thames
Sails to America / Settles in New York working as a bookseller
Moves to San Francisco / Continues book business
Injured in a stagecoach accident / Returns to the UK
Moves back to San Francisco / Takes up landscape photography
Commissioned to photograph America’s new territory, Alaska
Marries the twenty-year-old Flora Stone
Photographs Leland Stanford’s moving horse for the first time
Kills his wife’s lover, Harry Larkyns
Acquitted of murder / His wife dies / Commissioned to photograph Central America
Publishes The Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico; the Isthmus of Panama; Guatemala; and the cultivation and shipment of coffee
Resumes photography of horses in motion / Takes an 11-plate panorama of San Francisco
Produces a 360-degree panorama of San Francisco on 13 mammoth plates
Undertakes sequence photography experiments in Palo Alto
Invents the Zoopraxiscope, a moving image projector
Performs his first projection lecture in San Francisco
Publishes the Attitudes of Animals in Motion
Lectures in America, the UK and France
Undertakes new experiments at the University of Pennsylvania
Publishes Animal Locomotion
Tours America, the UK and Central Europe, lecturing and promoting his work
Participates in the Chicago World’s Fair
Returns to his hometown, Kingston
Lectures in the UK
Visits America for the last time
Performs his last known public lecture in St Ives
Publishes Animals in Motion
Publishes The Human Figure in Motion
Dies of prostate cancer on 8 May 1904 at his home in Kingston / Cremated and buried in Woking, Surrey
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