Joseph conrad biography timeline for kids

1857 3 Dec., Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski born of Polish aristocratic parents in the Russian occupied Ukraine

1861Conrad's father, poet and translator Count Apollo Korzeniowski, arrested for patriotic conspiracy

1862 Conrad's parents exiled by Russian authorities to Vologda, Siberia

1865 Conrad's mother dies in bleak climate.

1869 Upon the death of Count Apollo Korzeniowski in Krakow, Poland, Conrad is taken under the protection his maternal uncle, the indulgent Tadeusz Bobrowski.

1874 Conrad leaves his native Poland to avoid Russian conscription; in Marseilles he becomes a trainee seaman with the French Merchant Marine.

1876 As a steward on the Sainte-Antoine , Conrad meets Dominic Cervoni, upon whom he based the protagonist of Nostromo.

1877 Conrad involved in Carlist plot, smuggling arms to the Spanish rebels from Marseilles

1878 March: Conrad attempts suicide, shooting himself in the chest, but recovers. As a result, his uncle clears Conrad's gambl