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Helen Keller was born on her fathers plantation in Tuscumbia in northwest Alabama.
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By December, 1880 little Helen could say tea and hello.
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19 month old Helen Keller becomes gravly ill.
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Helen becomes deaf and blind.
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trough the next six years Helen Kellers parents did everything they could for their daughter.
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Helen Keller created her own kind of sign language. For example, to ask for bread, she would imitate spreading butter on bread.
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Alexander Graham Bell invited Annie Sullivan to teach Helen Keller. She said yes.
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The Keller family met Alexander Graham Bell and suggested that they hire Annie Sullivan, who was half blind herself. The Keller family aggreed.
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Annie Sullivan arrives at the Kellers plantaton.
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Helen discovered how to use sign language. The first word she "finger spelled" was water for she was at the pump when she spelled water
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Helen soon wanted to go see Perkins Institute for the Blind because she knew Annie wrote to her friends there.
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Annie had to have another operation on her eyes.
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when Annie came back from her sugery it was oblivious that Helen needed to go to school so Annie took her to Perkins Institute for the blind.
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Helen accidentaly wrote a book on a fictoinal character called The Frost King that was a book writen by another person that someone read to her.
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Alexander Graham Bell took Annie and Helen on an all-expense paid tripto Niagra Falls.
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Fourteen-year old Helen Keller attended egularschooling at the Write-Humason school, but she only attended for about 8 months.
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Helen Kellers father Arthur Keller died.
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Helen Keller and her little sister Mildred attended the Cambride school for ladies.
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A cruel man separated Helen Keller from her teacher Annie Sullivan but her mother soon heard of this and took both Helen and her little sister Mildred out of Cambridge.
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Helen Kellers relationhip between Annie was failing because of Annies temper but they were still friends.But, soon after, the two friends relationship healed.
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Helen Keller and her teacher Annie were immidiatly reinquainted with each other.
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Helen Keller entered Radcliff college as a freshmen.
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John Macy helped Helen Keller with a book about her life.
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Helen Keller graduated with a BA and honors.
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Annie Sullivan and John Macy married.
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Helen Keller published "The World I Live in" which described how Helen used her sense of touch, taste, and smell.
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Mr. White taught Helen Keller how to speak and sometimes what she said was clear.
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Helen Keller got glass eyes that were s realilistic that some peple thought they were real.
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After Macy left, Helen, Annie, and their new companion Pollie became neck-deep in poverty.
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Helen Keller met Pete Fagan who proposed, but her mther disliked this man and mde sure that her daughter didn't marry him.
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Helen Keller starred in a movie and was a big hit but the movie cost too much and Helen Keller got no money.
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Helen got an offer to have an act in the circus with Annie about how Annie taught Helen how to finger-spell.
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Kate Keller, Helen Kellers mother.
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A man named Robert Irwin hired Helen Keller to raise money for the blind.
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70-year old Annie Sulivan died.
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A fire destroyed Pollt and Helens house in Arcan Ridge.
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Filmmaker Nancy Hamilton and actress Kathrine Cornell released Helens film biography about Helen Keller and her story which won an oscar award.
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Helen Keller rewrote a book of notes betweenHelen Keller and Annie Sullivan. She rewrote it because the original copy burned in the fire.
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Seventy-six year old Polly died after having a series of strokes.
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Helen found a new nurse. Her name was Winifred (Winnie) Corbally.
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Helen Keller died at the age of 88 of a heart attack. She died in her sleep.
