1890

This is a timeline of Van Gogh's life, from the 30th of march 1853, when he was born, to the 29th of juli 1890, when he commits suicide.
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	Vincent goed to Auvers sur Oise; he gets more and more melancholic. He commits suicide at the 29th of July 1890. In January Theo's wife, Jo, gives birth to a son whom they name Vincent Willem. After a serious attack in February lasting two months, it is decided that Vincent should be under the care of Dr. Paul Gachet. He left the institution at the end of 1890 and went north again, this time to the rustic village of Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris. Although he now had a small but growing circle of admirers, Van Gogh had lost his original passion. "I feel a failure", he wrote to Theo. He arrived in Auvers-sur-Oise, twenty two miles from Paris, full of enthusiasm at the magnificence of the countryside, delighted with the thatched roof of local cottages, and, alone with himself and nature, spent all his time outside, painting. Alas, his good spirits were not to last. In one of his last letters to Theo, dated July 1890, he sadly wrote, "I feel...a failure. That's it as far as I'm concerned...I feel that this is the destiny that I accept, that will never change." In July he somehow gets hold of a gun and shoots himself. He died of his injuries two days later at the age of 37.