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All information on this timeline come from the book "The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women--and Women to Medicine" by Janice P Nimura.

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Elizabeth grew up in a politically active home. the family business in sugar and their abolitionist sentiments clashed, as the industry was built on slave labor. promises of religious freedom and ethical labor drew the family to New York.

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Elizabeth's father began a new sugar refinery in the city, using the money to move them into a home in long island. while here, Elizabeth and her older brother attended lectures at Columbia. It was at these lectures Elizabeth reflected on how she wished to learn alongside men, wanting to understand literature and philosophy.

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Following her fathers whims, the family moved west the Cincinnati. not long after moving, Elizabeth's father sucome to the malaria that he had been battling sense there departure from England. After his death Elizabeth and her sister opened a small school, teaching the children of the area.

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elizabeth moved to Henderson to take up a teaching opportunity. Elizabeth was appalled by the first hand look at slavery, as many people in the town owned slaves. Living apart from her family for the first time, Elizabeth found her need for independence. This left an impact on her, even though she only stayed for one school year.

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Upon returning to Cincinnati, Elizabeth found one of her friends stricken with uterine cancer. This friend urged her to pursue medicine, saying that much of her suffering could have been spared if she had a female physician. This as well as the appeal of paving the way for other women motivated her on her path.

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Following one of her sisters recommendation, Elizabeth persured a teaching job in Asheville. The job was especially important, as she would be working under Reverend John Dickinson, who was previously a doctor. she used her time under Reverend Dickinson in place of a traditional internship. Dickinson acquired materials to further Elizabeth's study, amicable to her dream of becoming a doctor. When the school Elizabeth ran closed, Dickinson referred her to his brother, who ran a medical school in Pennsylvania.

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Working at the boarding school ran by Reverend Dickinson's sister-in-law, Elizabeth began to study under Dr. Samuel Henry Dickinson. Samuel supported her, giving her his recommendation at the University of Pennsylvania . However, her application was laughed at, rejected without any real reasoning.

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Elizabeth requested admissions at Geneva Medical College, a prominent school in New York. The staff found it interesting, putting the decision to admit her up to the students. The students, finding this all hysterical, voted to admit her. The media of the time ridiculed her, newspapers writing articles on the ridiculousness of a female studying medicine. Fellow students catcalled her on campase , and teachers regularly underestimated her. However early into her first semester, she proved herself to both the staff and students by attending an anatomy lecturer on the reproductive organs.

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In Between her first and second year of college, Elizabeth worked at the Blockley Almshouse. The Almshouse was a charity hospital, not far from Geneva's campus. The hospital was painfully understaffed, in no position to reject Elizabeth's help. Here she got her first hands-on look at disease, and the struggles she would face upon entering the field.

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After returning from summer break, Elizabeth was finally allowed to participate in dissections. When it came time for final examinations, elizabeth exceled, finishing at the top of her class. Her graduation was momentous, attracting widespread attention. After she got her M.D, professors at the colleges that once rejected her invited her to lectures, and finally treated her with respect.

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Paris was upheld as one of the best places to study medicine, as the french revolution and the lazia-fare opinion on death gave students the perfect opportunity to learn. In paris she trained as a midwife in a large meterity hospital. Here she caught an infection in her left eye-conjunctivitis- losing function of the eye. After extensive treatment, Elizabeth left Paris.

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After losing her left eye, Elizabeth returned to London, taking up studies at St. Bartholomew Hospital. she was respected, acting as an aid to many doctors. It was here where Elizabeth befriended Florence Nightingale, who would later make medical history by revolutionizing hygiene.

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After 13 years away, Elizabeth returned to New York. Without use of her left eye, she abandoned any hope of becoming a surgeon,but she persisted, opening a private practice in the city. However, her practice only acquired negative attention, and attracted no patients. She spent much of this time writing, pening many papers on female health and childbirth.

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Elizabeth saw a great need for a hospital staff by, and for women. Not only to provide quality medical services to women, but to give female medical students a place to study. The New York Infirmary for Poor Women and Children was successful, though not without any backlash. When one patient died riots broke out, even though the death was unavoidable.

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As the American Civil war broke out, Elizabeth began working with other women to create the Women's Central Association of Relief (WCAR). Elizabeth worked on training nurses as well as collecting supplies for the front lines.

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Elizabeth hadn't planned on creating a women's college, her goal was to open up the current system to women. However, she found that goal impossible at the time. She and her sister opened the Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, building on the success of the Infirmary. The college expanded the education of women, and all doctors. The college was one of the first four year colleges, pushing forward a higher quality education for medical students.