CHRONOLOGY
OF
WILLIAM JAMES’S LIFE
| 1842 | January 11, born in New York City |
| 1857-58 | Student at the College of Boulogne-sur-Mer |
| 1859-60 | Student at University of Geneva |
| 1860 | Studied painting under William H. Hunt at Newport, Rhode Island |
| 1861 | Enrolled in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard |
| 1863 | Enrolled in the Medical School at Harvard |
| 1865 | Participated in the Thayer expedition to Brazil under Louis Agassiz |
| 1867-68 | Studied physiology at the University of Berlin 1869 Earned his doctor of medicine degree from Harvard |
| 1872 | Appointed instructor of physiology at Harvard |
| 1875-92 | Taught courses to graduate students on physiology and psychology and directed experimental research at the Lawrence Scientific School, founded first experimental laboratory in psychology in America |
| 1878 | Married |
| 1879-80 | Offered first course in philosophy, “Philosophy of Evolution’ |
| 1880 | Appointed assistant professor of philosophy |
| 1884 | Contributed to the establishment of the American Society for Psychical Research |
| 1885 | Named professor of philosophy |
| 1889 | Named professor of psychology |
| 1890 | Published The Principles of Psychology |
| 1892 | Published Psychology, Briefer Course |
| 1896 | Published Will to Believe |
| 1901-02 | Gifford lectures at Edinburgh, resulting in publication of The Varieties of Religious Experience in 1902 |
| 1906-07 | Lectured at Lowell Institute in Boston and at Columbia University, lectures published as Pragmatism |
| 1910 | August 26, died in Chocorua, New Hampshire |