What are the 15 main events in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

The important events that happen in Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain are as follows:

1.Tom uses reverse psychology to trick the other boys into white washing the fence for him.

2.Tom receive his bible and causes trouble in the church.

3.Tom meets Becky for the first time. They get ‘engaged’

4.Tom decides that he is going to be a pirate

5.Injun Joe kills the doctor at the graveyard, Tom and Huck witness the murder of the doctor

6.The boys, Tom and Huck, promise to never say anything about what they saw at the graveyard

7.Tom, Huck, and Joe run off deciding that they should go be pirates

8.Assumed dead by the town Tom, Huck and Joe come back and it’s the day of their own funerals. They attend their funerals.

9.Tom sneaks into town and finds out that the townspeople think they drowned at sea.

10.Tom offers to take Becky’s punishment at school, he takes the punishment

11.Tom confesses what he really saw at the graveyard the night the doctor was killed and Injun Joe is forced to run away

12.Tom and Huck find treasure in an old spooky house, they also see a Spaniard talking with Injun Joe

13.Injun Joe goes to the widow’s house, Huck follows him there and then gets the Welshmans to scare him away

14.Tom and Becky get stuck in a cave during Becky’s family picnic. Injun Joe dies in the cave but Becky and Tom make it out alive

15.The boys find gold in the cave under a huge rock. Huck goes to live with the widow, he does not like it there and wants to be in a gang

What are the main events of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in chronological order?

There are actually quite a few main events that can be picked from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Here are a few of them:

• Tom Sawyer and his friend Huck Finn visit a graveyard and witness the murder of Dr. Robinson at the hands of Injun Joe. Unfortunately, Muff Porter is arrested for the crime.
• Tom, Huck, and Joe Harper run away to an island, and the town starts looking for their bodies after their prolonged disappearance. The boys decide to reappear at their funerals and gain popularity due to this.
• Muff Porter's trial begins and Tom reveals the truth as a witness. Injun Joe escapes from the courthouse and Muff Porter is acquitted.
• By this time, it is summer and while Tom and Huck are looking for buried treasure, they see Injun Joe and his companion find a box of gold and take it for themselves.
• Huck starts to follow Injun Joe and in the process, foils Injun Joe's plot to hurt Widow Douglas, a kind resident of the town.
• Meanwhile, Tom and his classmate Becky get lost in a cave and see Injun Joe there. Tom and Becky find a way out and Becky's father, Judge Thatcher, orders for the cave to be sealed. Injun Joe is trapped inside and dies.
• Tom and Huck go back to the cave and find the box of gold. They get to keep the proceeds, and Widow Douglas adopts Huck.

Unlike most books you have read, most of this book is episodic.  That means that each chapter in the first part of the book is its own important event.  Once you get to the middle of the book, things start to get more interesting.  The part where they have trouble with Injun Joe and get lost in the caves and find the treasure is really the only significant part of the book.

There are a lot of events in this book.  A few important ones:

• Tom cons the other boys into whitewashing the fence for him.
• Tom gets the Bible presented to him for allegedly memorizing Bible verses but can't answer a simple question about the Bible.
• Becky rejects Tom.
• Tom and Huck see the murder.
• Tom and his friends run off and live on the island.
• They go to their own funeral.
• Tom and Becky are lost in the cave.
• Tom and Huck find the money.

What is the most interesting incident in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

Speaking personally, I would say that I find the incident with the bible tickets as the most interesting for the same reason as the previous contributor: it gives us insight into Tom's entrepreneurial character (as well as his seemingly endless capacity for mischief).

The children at Tom's Sunday School are awarded different colored tickets for every bible verse they can recite. If they manage to collect one thousand tickets, then they'll be given a Dore Bible as a prize. Tom has no chance of winning the prize. His memory is much too bad, and he's also chronically lazy. Try as he might, he just can't make any progress. What he needs is an incentive. And it duly arrives in the shape of Becky Thatcher, Judge Thatcher's daughter. Soon, Tom becomes hopelessly smitten with the girl and wants to impress her. What better way to do this than by winning the prized Dore Bible?

But Tom, being Tom, doesn't go about collecting tickets in the ordinary way; that would be too much like hard work. So he trades stuff to get tickets. For a prized yellow ticket, Tom is prepared to trade a piece of licorice and a fishhook. For three red tickets, he hands over a couple of white alleys, or marbles. After bumping into another few boys on his way to church, Tom manages to get his hands on yet more tickets, enough to win the Dore Bible. There's just one problem: Tom's expected to recite a bible verse chosen at random by the superintendent, and he doesn't have a clue what to say. The whole embarrassing episode speaks volumes about Tom Sawyer: unfailingly resourceful and ever so smart, but a little too clever by half.

That's a really hard question, because "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is so full of interesting incidents.  It is hard to just pick one.  I have always liked the opening fence painting sequence though.  

The previous day Tom skipped school, got in a fight, and came home really dirty.  As a punishment Tom is made to whitewash a fence.  He is sorely disappointed at his punishment, but he turns it around in his favor.  Boys come along to tease him about having to paint the fence, but Tom makes them think they are missing out on something by not painting the fence.  Tom convinces boy after boy to trade some treasure of theirs for the privilege of painting the fence.  

Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.

It's a great sequence because it shows how powerfully influential Tom is and how entrepreneurial he can be.