Osler - Chronology

Early Life
1849	Born on July 12 at the parsonage in Bond Head, Tecumseh County, Upper Canada (after 1864, the province of Ontario) to the Rev. Featherstone Lake Osler and Ellen Free Pickton Osler. William was the sixth son and eighth child of nine.
1857	Osler family moved to Dundas, Ontario.
1857-1864	Student at local grammar school in Dundas.
1864	Expelled from grammar school.
1864-1865	Boarder at grammar school of the Rev. W. F. Checkley, in Barrie, Ontario.
1866-1867	Student at Trinity College School, Weston, Ontario, where he met his mentors, Rev. William Arthur Johnson and James Bovell, M.D.
1867-1868	Student at Trinity College, Toronto, in preparation for career as a minister.
Medical Education
1868-1870	Student at Toronto School of Medicine.
1869	First publication, "Christmas and the Microscope," Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip, (London), Feb. 1, no. 50, p. 44.
1870	First scientific publication, "Canadian diatomaceae," Canadian Naturalist & Quarterly Journal of Science, 1870-71, N.S. 5: 142-151.
1870-1872	Student at McGill Medical School, Montreal, where he studied with Palmer Howard, M.D., the third dedicatee, with Johnson and Bovell, of his Principles and Practice.
1871	First clinical publication, "Carcinoma mammae: Removal by Excision," Canadian Medical Journal, 1871, 8: 107-109.
1872	Received M.D., McGill Medical School. Awarded a special prize for his thesis on pathological anatomy, which was never published and which now survives only in fragments.
1872-1874	Traveled and studied in Europe.
1873	Began research on blood platelets.
1874	Returned to Canada to work as a general practitioner in Dundas and Hamilton for a few weeks in the summer.
Montreal 1874 - 1884
1874-1875	Lecturer on the Institutes of Medicine, McGill University.
1874	Joins Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal.
1875-1884	Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, McGill University.
1875	Attending Physician, smallpox wards, Montreal General Hospital.
1876?	Professor of Physiology, Montreal Veterinary College.
1876-1884	Pathologist, Montreal General Hospital (appointed May 1, 1876).
1877-1884	Registrar, School of Medicine, McGill University.
1877-1878	Editor, Transactions of the Canadian Medical Association.
1878	Published Montreal General Hospital Pathological Reports.
1878	Passed examination for membership in the Royal College of Physicians, London.
1878-1884	Physician to Montreal General Hospital.
1881	Elected General Secretary, Canadian Medical Association.
1883	Elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
1884	Elected President of the Canadian Medical Association.
Philadelphia 1884 - 1889
1884-1889	Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
1885	Gulstonian Lectures "On Malignant Endocarditis," Royal College of Physicians, London (Published: British Medical Journal, 1885, 1: 467-70, 522-526, 577-579).
1885	Elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
1885	Elected member of the Philadelphia Pathological Society on March 12.
1885	Appointed visiting physician, Philadelphia General Hospital [Blockley].
1885	Founding member of the Association of American Physicians.
1886	Cartwright Lectures "On Certain Problems in the Physiology of the Blood Corpuscles," delivered before the Association of the Alumni of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in March (Published: Medical News (NY), 1886, 48: 365-370, 393-399, 420-425).
1887	Appointed physician to the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases.
Baltimore 1889 - 1905
1889-1905	Physician-in-Chief, The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
1892	Published The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1892.
1892-1893	President of the American Pediatric Society.
1892	Married Grace Revere of Boston, widow of Samuel W. Gross, M.D., of Philadelphia, on May 7.
1893	Son born, but lived less than a week in February.
1893-1905	Professor of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
1895	Awarded LL.D by McGill University on April 30.
1895	Son, Edward Revere Osler born on December 28.
1895	President, Association of American Medical Colleges.
1895	President, Association of American Physicians.
1895	Described the visceral complications of erythema multiforme.
1898	Founding member, Association of Medical Librarians, May 2.
1898	Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on June 6.
1898	Awarded LL.D. by Aberdeen University, Scotland, on July 21.
1898	Awarded LL.D. by Edinburgh University, Scotland, in July.
1898-1899	Dean of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
1899	Cavendish Lecture, "On the Etiology and Diagnosis of Cerebrospinal Fever," West London Medico-Chirurgical Society, June 16 (Published: West London Medical Journal, 4: 145-188).
1899	Awarded LL.D. by the University of Toronto, June 10.
1901	United States representative, British Congress on Tuberculosis, July.
1901	Described a form of multiple telangiectasis.
1901	Awarded LL.D. by the Yale University, October.
1902	President, Association of Medical Librarians.
1902	Awarded D.C.L. by University of Trinity College, Toronto.
1903	Described chronic cyanosis with polycythemia and enlarged spleen.
1904	Elected Vice-President and Chairman of the International Committee of the United States Society for the Study of Tuberculosis, March 28.
1904	Ingersoll Lecture, "Science and Immortality," Harvard University, May. (Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1904).
1904	Awarded L.L.D. by Harvard University on June 29.
1904	Awarded D.S. by Oxford University on July 27.
1905	Awarded an L.L.D. by Johns Hopkins University on February 22.
1905	Valedictory address, "The Fixed Period," The Johns Hopkins University, Feb. 22, caused uproar in the popular press. which accused Osler of proposing that all men over sixty are useless and should be chloroformed to death.
1905	Founding member, Interurban Clinical Club, April 28.
Oxford 1905 - 1919
1905-1919	Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford University.
1905	Awarded D.M. by Oxford University on June 13.
1905	In London, John Singer Sargent completed the portrait of "The Four Doctors" (Kelly, Halsted, Osler, Welch) commissioned by Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett for The Johns Hopkins University.
1905	Thomas Young lecturer in Medicine, St. George’s Hospital, London.
1905	Appointed a Delegate to the Oxford University Press.
1905	Consultant to the Radcliffe Infirmary where he initiated informal Sunday morning post-graduate clinics there.
1905-1908	Member of the Hebdomadal Council, governing body of Oxford University.
1906	Elected to membership of the Bibliographical Society, London, on March 19.
1906	Appointed member of the Royal Commission on Vivisection.
1906	Harveian Oration, "The Growth of Truth as Illustrated in the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood," Royal College of Physicians, London, on October 18 (Published: London: H. Frowde, 1906).
1908	Linacre Lecture, St. John’s College, Cambridge University, on May 6.
1908	Unsuccessful candidate in the election for the Lord Rectorship of the University of Edinburgh.
1908	Described erythematous swellings in malignant endocarditis (Osler’s spots).
1909	Schorstein Lecture, London Hospital, on October 15.
1910	Lumleian Lectures "On Angina Pectoris," Royal College of Physicians, London in March. (Published: Lancet, 1910, 1: 697-702, 839-844, 973-977).
1910	Awarded D.Sc. by Leeds University in June.
1911	Awarded M.D. by University of Christiana, Sweden, in September.
1911	Baronetcy conferred.
1911	Elected President of the Clinical Section, Royal Society of Medicine.
1912	Awarded D. Sc. by Trinity College, Dublin, on July 6.
1912	Awarded an D.L.C. by Durham University on December 17.
1913	Founder and first President of the Historical Section, Royal Society of Medicine.
1913	Lectures on the Silliman Foundation, Yale University, "The Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered in April (Published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921).
1913-1919	President of the Bibliographical Society, London.
1913	President of the Medical Section, XVIIth International Medical Congress, London, August 6-12.
1914	Resigned for a few days in April from the Royal College of Physicians over their response to the unauthorized use of his name publicizing a popular medical book.
1914	Awarded Sc.D. by Cambridge University on June 9.
1914	Nominated, but declined presidency of the Royal Society of Medicine.
1914	Elected to the Roxburghe Club.
1916	Appointed to the Royal Commission on University Education in Wales.
1916	Resigned as Consultant to the hospitals of the Canadian Army Medical Corps.
1917	Lt. Edward Revere Osler, RFA, died in Flanders on August 30.
1919	President of the Inter-Allied Fellowship of Medicine, January 9.
1919	President, Ashmolean Natural History Society.
1919	Presidential speech, "The Old Humanities and the New Science," Classical Association, Oxford, May 16. (Published: Classical Association Proceedings, 1919.)
1919	Publication of Contributions to Medical and Biological Research Dedicated to Sir William Osler in Honour of his Seventieth Birthday . . . by his Pupils and Co-Workers.
1919	Died on December 29.
Sources
Chesney, Alan M. The Johns Hopkins Hospital and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A Chronicle. 3 vols. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1963.
Cushing, Harvey. The Life of Sir William Osler. London: Oxford University Press, 1940.
"Sir William Osler," Medical Classics, 1939, 4: 175-176.
Sir William Osler: An Annotated Bibliography with Illustrations. Edited by Richard L. Golden and Charles G. Roland. San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1988.
"Sir William Osler Memorial Number," Bulletin of the International Association of Medical Museums and Journal of Technical Methods, 1926, No. 9.
"Sir William Osler’s Autobiographical Notes," Edited by Edward H. Bensley and Donald G. Bates, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1976, 50: 596-618.
Epilogue Osler's Successors at Johns Hopkins and Oxford (Courtesy of Victor A. McKusick) Click on image to see larger version.