Brief Chronology

  • 1849 --Born July 12 at Bond Head, Ontario, to Featherstone Lake Osler and Ellen Free Pickton Osler
  • 1867 --Entered University of Trinity College in Toronto to study for the ministry
  • 1868 --Began medical studies at Toronto School of Medicine
  • 1870 --Transferred to McGill University's Faculty of Medicine in Montreal
  • 1872 --Received MD and CM (Master of Surgery) from McGill
  • 1872-73 --Postgraduate study at University College Hospital in London
  • 1873-74 --Postgraduate study at the Charitè Royal Hospital and Virchow's Pathological Institute in Berlin, and at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Vienna
  • 1874 --Appointed Lecturer at McGill University Faculty of Medicine
  • 1875 --Promoted to Professor at McGill; appointed attending physician to the smallpox ward at Montreal General Hospital
  • 1876 --Appointed Professor at the Montreal Veterinary College
  • 1878 --Became member of England's Royal College of Physicians; appointed attending physician at Montreal General Hospital
  • 1884-89 --Appointed Chair of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA
  • 1885 --Co-founded Association of American Physicians
  • 1888 --Appointed Physician in Chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital (opened May 1889) and Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (opened 1893)
  • 1889 --Johns Hopkins Hospital opened
  • 1892 --Published The Principles and Practice of Medicine; married Grace Revere Gross on May 7
  • 1893 --Johns Hopkins School of Medicine opened
  • 1895 --Son Edward Revere born on December 28
  • 1898 --Co-founded the Association of Medical Librarians (Medical Library Association from 1905)
  • 1905-19 --Appointed Regius Professor of Medicine at University of Oxford
  • 1911 --Created a baronet by King George V for his many contributions to medicine
  • 1915-18 --Wartime appointments at several Canadian military hospitals in the Oxford area
  • 1917 --Revere Osler killed in action in Belgium, August 30
  • 1919 --Died December 29, in Oxford, from pneumonia and other complications following influenza