1858 October 27 born in New York City
1880 June graduates from Harvard
1880 October 27 marries Alice Lee
1882 The Naval War of 1812
1883 September 8 arrives in Little Missouri valley, Dakota
Territory, for the first time
1884 February 12 daughter Alice born in New York City
1884 February 14 TR's wife Alice and mother Martha die
simultaneously
1884 June establishes a second ranch in the Dakota badlands
1884 August fistfight with the bully of Mingusville
1885 Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
1886 March pursues boat thieves down the Little Missouri River
1886 July 4 gives first great America speech in Dickinson,
Dakota Territory
1886 October defeated for mayor of New York
1886 December 2 marries Edith Carow in London
1887 September 13 Theodore Roosevelt, jr., (Ted) born
1887 Thomas Hart Benton
1886-87 the great blizzard destroys the cattle industry on the
northern plains
1888 Ranch Life and The Hunting Trail
1889 October 10 Kermit born
1889-95 U.S. civil service commissioner
1889-96 The Winning of the West
1891 August 13 Ethel born
1893 The Wilderness Hunter
1894 Archibald (Archie) born
1895-1897 police commissioner, New York City
1897-1898 Assistant Secretary of the Navy
1897 November 19 Quentin born
1898 April Congress declares war against Spain
1898 June TR appointed colonel of “roughrider” regiment
1898 July 1 the battle of San Juan Hill
1898 September 16 Roughriders mustered out
1898 November 8 elected Governor of New York state
1900 elected vice president of the United States
1901 September 14 sworn in as 26th president of the United
States in Buffalo
1902 June 17 Newlands Act (reclamation)
1903 November Roosevelt supports "revolution" in Panama - the
beginnings of the Panama Canal
1904 November TR elected to the presidency in a landslide
1905 January 24 first federal game preserve
1905 February 1 U.S. Forest Service created
1906 February 17 daughter Alice married at White House
1906 June 8 National Monuments Act
1906 December TR wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1907-09 America's Great White Fleet sails around the world
1908 May 13-15 White House conference of governors about
conservation
1909-10 Safari in Africa
1912 the Bull Moose campaign
1913-14 South America excursion: the River of Doubt
1914 World War I begins
1917 Woodrow Wilson declines TR's offer to lead a group of
"roughriders" into the European theater
1918 July TR's son Quentin dies when he is shot down behind
German lines
1919 January 6 Roosevelt dies of an embolism
