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1857 - Born on the 3rd of December in Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian.
1874 - Conrad left for Marseille with the intention of going to sea.
1876 - In July, he again sailed to the West Indies, as a steward on the Saint-Antoine.
1878 - He signed on in April as a deckhand on a British freighter bound for Constantinople with a cargo of coal.
- In June, It was Conrad's first English landfall, and he spoke only a few words of the language of which he was to become a recognized master.
1880 - In June, he passed his examination as second mate.
1881 - In April, he joined the Palestine, a bark of 425 tons.
1883 - In September, he shipped as mate on the Riversdale, leaving her at Madras to join the Narcissus at Bombay.
1886 - Studied for his first mate's certificate, two notable events occurred:
1887 - In February, he sailed as first mate on the Highland Forest, bound for Semarang, Java.
1889 - He took rooms near the Thames and, while waiting for a command, began to write Almayer's Folly.
1891 - He was in the Congo for four months, returning to England in January.
1894 - He made several more voyages as a first mate, when his guardian Tadeusz Bobrowski died, his sea life was over.
- Conrad sent Almayer's Folly to the London publisher Fisher Unwin, and the book was published in April.
1895 - He married the 22-year-old Jessie George, by whom he had two sons.
1912 - His novel Chance was successfully serialized in the New York Herald, and his novel Victory, published, was no less successful.
1924 - He refused an offer of knighthood from Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, and he died shortly thereafter. Died on the 3rd of August in Canterbury, Kent, England.
1874 - Conrad left for Marseille with the intention of going to sea.
1876 - In July, he again sailed to the West Indies, as a steward on the Saint-Antoine.
1878 - He signed on in April as a deckhand on a British freighter bound for Constantinople with a cargo of coal.
- In June, It was Conrad's first English landfall, and he spoke only a few words of the language of which he was to become a recognized master.
1880 - In June, he passed his examination as second mate.
1881 - In April, he joined the Palestine, a bark of 425 tons.
1883 - In September, he shipped as mate on the Riversdale, leaving her at Madras to join the Narcissus at Bombay.
1886 - Studied for his first mate's certificate, two notable events occurred:
1887 - In February, he sailed as first mate on the Highland Forest, bound for Semarang, Java.
1889 - He took rooms near the Thames and, while waiting for a command, began to write Almayer's Folly.
1891 - He was in the Congo for four months, returning to England in January.
1894 - He made several more voyages as a first mate, when his guardian Tadeusz Bobrowski died, his sea life was over.
- Conrad sent Almayer's Folly to the London publisher Fisher Unwin, and the book was published in April.
1895 - He married the 22-year-old Jessie George, by whom he had two sons.
1912 - His novel Chance was successfully serialized in the New York Herald, and his novel Victory, published, was no less successful.
1924 - He refused an offer of knighthood from Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, and he died shortly thereafter. Died on the 3rd of August in Canterbury, Kent, England.
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