John Stuart Mill/Timelines
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- 1806 Born, son of philosopher James Mill
- 1820 Spends a year in France
- 1823 Joins the East India Company (then effectively a branch of the British civil service[1]) as a clerk
- 1826 Suffers a 6-month spell of depression
- 1830 Meets Harriet Taylor
- 1836 Death of James Mill
- 1843 System of Logic
- 1848 Principles of Political Economy
- 1851 Marriage to Harriet Taylor (on the death of her husband)
- 1858 Death of Harriet Taylor. The East India company is dissolved by Parliament and Mill retires on a pension.
- 1859 On Liberty
- 1861 Utilitarianism and Representative Government
- 1865 Elected to Parliament
- 1867 Subjection of Women
- 1868 Defeated in parliamentary election
- 1873 Death