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The following events occurred in the year 1877.

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  • January (a school day): Marilla and Mrs Lynde attend a Canadian Premier's political rally in Charlottetown, leaving Anne and Matthew alone. Diana arrives, breathless, with the news that Minnie May is very sick and Mr and Mrs Barry are away. Matthew goes to Carmody for the doctor and Anne accompanies Diana back to Orchard Slope, where she administers ipecac to Minnie May until she is out of danger.[1]
  • January (the following day, and also a school day): Matthew arrives at Orchard Slope with the Spencervale doctor at three in the morning. The doctor tells Mr and Mrs Barry that Anne saved Minnie May's life. Anne goes home and sleeps; meanwhile, Marilla arrives home and Mrs Barry visits in the afternoon. She tells Marilla that she is grateful that Anne saved Minnie May's life, that she knows now that Anne didn't mean to set Diana drunk and that she hopes Anne and Diana can be friends again. Anne visits Diana, who caught a cold the previous night, and they spend a happy afternoon together.[1]
  • February: Old Mr Bentley, the Avonlea minister, resigns and leaves Avonlea. He was the pastor for 18 years. Henceforth, the Avonlea church goes through a series of trial ministers until June, when Mr Allan is chosen.[2]
  • February: Diana invites Anne to go to the Avonlea Debating Club concert tomorrow to celebrate Diana's birthday, and spend the night at the Barry's (in their spare room) afterwards. Marilla initially says no, but yields after Matthew repeatedly says he thinks Marilla should let Anne go.[3]
  • February (the following day): It is Diana's birthday. Anne is so distracted that she can't pay attention in school. Anne and Diana have tea and then get dressed. Diana's cousins, the Murrays from Newbridge arrive and take them to the concert. It is eleven when they arrive back at Orchard Slope. Anne suggests a race into the spare-room bed, and they land on Diana's Aunt Josephine, who is visiting from Charlottetown.[3]
  • February (the following day): Anne hurries home after breakfast. Aunt Josephine is very angry, refuses to speak to Diana and decides not to pay for a quarter's music lessons for her. Anne finds this out when she visits Mrs Lynde for an errand in the late afternoon. Anne goes to Orchard Slope and apologises to Aunt Josephine, who is amused and forgives them. Aunt Josephine stays for more than a month so that she can get to know Anne better.[3]
  • March 5: Anne turns twelve.
  • April: Anne and Diana begin to imagine that the spruce wood over the brook is haunted, and call it the Haunted Wood.[4]
  • May: The school girls and boys have a golden afternoon gathering wildflowers. They have lunch in a mossy hollow by a well behind Mr Silas Sloane's place. Charlie Sloane dares Arty Gillis to jump over the well. Mr Phillips gives all his Mayflowers to Prissy Andrews. Gilbert Blythe offers Anne flowers, but she refuses.[4]
  • May 24: Queen Victoria's birthday. Anne and Diana discover a new island up the brook.[4]
  • June: It is the anniversary of Anne's arrival at Green Gables. Marilla has a headache. Anne helps with the housework, but she starches Matthew's handkerchiefs and burns the pie. Anne names the island that she and Diana discovered Victoria Island. At twilight, Marilla sends her to Orchard Slope to borrow Diana's apron pattern. Having to go through what she and Diana have called the Haunted Wood, Anne returns safely, but learns a lesson about becoming spooked by her own imagination.[4]
  • June 30: The last day of school, and Mr Phillips' last day. Although Jane has been saying for a month that she wouldn't shed a tear, she cries harder than any of the other girls. There will be a two-month vacation. Anne and her friends meet the new minister and his wife coming from the station. The new minister's wife has only been a minister's wife 'for a little while'.[2]
  • July (a Sunday): Anne tells Marilla all about Mrs Allan, who teaches her Sunday-school class. Marilla decides to invite the Allans to tea on Wednesday, and promises Anne that she can make a layer cake for the occasion.[2]
  • July (the following Monday): Anne and Marilla are busy preparing for the Allans' visit. Anne dreams that she 'was chased all around by a fearful goblin with a big layer cake for a head'.[2]
  • July (the following Tuesday): Anne and Marilla continue their preparations. Anne meets Diana in the Dryad's Bubble at twilight and tells her all about it.[2]
  • July (the following Wednesday): Anne has caught a bad cold due to 'dabbling in the spring' the night before, but still makes her cake after breakfast. The Allans come to tea and Mrs Allan eats Anne's cake. Marilla discovers it was accidentally flavoured with anodyne liniment instead of vanilla. Anne is distraught, but Mrs Allan comforts her, and Anne discovers another kindred spirit.[2]
  • August (two weeks before school begins): Anne receives a letter from Mrs Allan asking her to tea at the manse.[5]
  • August (the following day): Anne has tea at the manse with Mrs Allan and Laurette Bradley. Mrs Lynde drops by the manse and reveals that the trustees have hired a new teacher for the Avonlea school. Her name is Miss Muriel Stacy and she will be the first female teacher in Avonlea.[5] It has been about a month since the liniment cake episode.[6]
  • August (one week later): Diana holds a small party for the girls in their class. Josie Pye dares Anne to walk the ridgepole of the Barry roof. Anne attempts to do so, but falls off and breaks her ankle. She has to stay home for seven weeks.[6]
  • October: Anne goes back to school.[7]
  • October (a Friday): There is a field afternoon at school, and the boys climb trees on Bell's hill to collect crows' nests.[7]
  • October (the following week): Anne recites 'Mary, Queen of Scots' at school.[7]
  • November: At school, Miss Stacy begins a concert project which will take place on Christmas Night and raise funds for a schoolhouse flag. Anne is in two dialogues and a tableau, and has two recitations.[7]
  • December (two weeks to Christmas): Anne and her friends are practising for the concert at Green Gables, and Matthew notices that Anne is not dressed like the other girls.[8]
  • December (the following day): Matthew goes to William Blair's store in Carmody and buys a garden rake and twenty pounds of brown sugar.[8]
  • December (soon after): Matthew goes to Mrs. Lynde, who agrees to make a brown dress with puffed sleeves for Anne.[8]
  • December 24: Mrs. Lynde brings the finished dress to Green Gables. A box of presents from Aunt Josephine arrives at Orchard Slope after dark.[8]
  • December 25: Matthew gives the dress to Anne. Diana brings a gift from Aunt Josephine of kid slippers for Anne. The hall is decorated and there is a rehearsal before the concert in the evening, which is a success. A rose falls out of Anne's hair and Gilbert Blythe picks it up and puts it in his breast pocket. That night, Marilla and Matthew talk about sending Anne to Queen's one day.[8]

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