• December 10, 1805
  Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison is born.

• August 11, 1828
  William Lloyd Garrison says the purpose of anti-slavery societies is to "unite the moral strength of the country."
  

• January 1, 1831
  William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing the militant antislavery newspaper The Liberator. On the first page of the first issue, Garrison defiantly declared: "I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-and I will not retreat a single inch-AND I WILL BE HEARD."
  

• September 7, 1832
  William Lloyd Garrison declares: "without the organization of abolitionists into society, the cause will be lost."
  

• September 10, 1835
  Anti-abolition mob erects gallows outside William Lloyd Garrison's home in Boston.
  

• October 21, 1835
  William Lloyd Garrison narrowly escapes lynching in Boston.
  

• April 11, 1836
  William Lloyd Garrison protests Arkansas's admission to the Union as a slave state.

• April 24, 1840
  William Lloyd Garrison urges the World's Anti-Slavery Convention to recognize women as "equal beings."
  

• October 15, 1841
  The Liberator reports racially-motivated eviction of Frederick Douglass from a train in Massachusetts.
  

• April 27, 1844
  William Lloyd Garrison writes a support: "immediate emancipation is the duty of the master and the right of the slave."
  

• August 2, 1847
  William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass begin a speaking tour in Ohio.
  

• June 3, 1859
  William Lloyd Garrison endorses the Republican Party as representing the "political anti-slavery feeling of the North."
  

• 1865, Garrison published his last issue of the Liberator. After thirty five years and 1,820 issues, Garrison did not fail to publish a single issue.
  

• May 24, 1879
  William Lloyd Garrison died.

Mintz, S. (2007). Timeline of Abolition. Digital History. Retrieved Nov.6, 2008 from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/daybyday/daybyday.cfm?db=abolition