
Explore the timelines for important dates in TR’s personal and political life, military career, publications, hunting and exploration trips, as well as his time in Dakota Territory.
1858 |
October 27 |
Born 28 East Twentieth Street, New York City |
1876-80 |
Attends Harvard: graduates magna cum laude |
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1878 |
February 9 |
Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., dies |
1880 |
October 27 |
Marries Alice Hathaway Lee |
1880-82 |
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Attends Columbia Law School (does not graduate) |
1881 |
November 8 |
Elected to New York State Assembly |
1882 |
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Publishes The Naval War of 1812 |
1883 |
September |
Buffalo hunt, North Dakota; Purchases first badlands ranch |
1884 |
February 12 |
Daughter Alice born |
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February 14 |
Wife Alice Lee and mother Mittie Roosevelt die in Roosevelt’s New York home |
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June |
Delegate to Republican National Convention in Chicago |
1885 |
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Publishes Hunting Trips of a Ranchman |
1886 |
December 2 |
Marries Edith Kermit Carow in London |
1887 |
September 13 |
Son Theodore born |
1888 |
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Publishes Life of Gouverneur Morris, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, and Essays in Practical Politics |
1889 |
May 7 |
Appointed U.S. Civil Service Commissioner by President Benjamin Harrison |
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October 10 |
Son Kermit born |
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Publishes two volumes of Winning of the West |
1891 |
August 13 |
Daughter Ethel born |
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Publishes History of New York |
1893 |
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Publishes The Wilderness Hunter |
1894 |
April 10 |
Son Archibald born |
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August 14 |
Death of brother Elliott |
1895 |
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Appointed New York Police Commissioner |
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Publishes Hero Tales of American History (with Henry Cabot Lodge) |
1897 |
April 19 |
Begins duties as Assistant Secretary of the Navy |
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November 19 |
Son Quentin born |
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Publishes American Ideals |
1898 |
April 25 |
Appointed lieutenant colonel of First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment |
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May 6 |
Resigns as Assistant Secretary of the Navy |
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July 1 |
Roosevelt’s “crowded hour” at Kettle and San Juan Hills |
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November 8 |
Elected Governor of New York |
1899 |
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Publishes The Rough Riders |
1900 |
November 6 |
Elected Vice President of the United States |
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Publishes Oliver Cromwell and The Strenuous Life |
1901 |
September 6 |
President McKinley shot in Buffalo, New York |
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September 14 |
Roosevelt sworn in as 26th President, Buffalo |
1902 |
February 19 |
Orders federal antitrust suit against Northern Securities Co. |
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June 17 |
Signs Newlands Reclamation Act |
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October |
Mediates anthracite coal strike |
1903 |
February 14 |
Establishes Department of Commerce and Labor |
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March 14 |
Proclaims Pelican Island, first federal bird sanctuary |
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November 18 |
Panama Canal Treaty |
1904 |
November 8 |
Elected President in his own right |
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December 6 |
Declares Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine |
1905 |
February 1 |
National Forest Service established |
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March 17 |
Attends wedding of niece Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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June 2 |
Declares Wichita Forest, Oklahoma, first federal game preserve |
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August 25 |
Submarine ride in Plunger off Long Island |
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September 5 |
Signing of Portsmouth Treaty ending Russo-Japanese War |
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Publishes Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter |
1906 |
February 17 |
Presides at White House over wedding of daughter Alice to Ohio congressman Nicholas Longworth |
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June 8 |
Signs Antiquities Act (National Monuments) |
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June 30 |
Signs Pure Food and Drug Act |
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November 8-26 |
Visits Panama Canal Zone |
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December 10 |
Awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1907 |
January 1 |
Shakes 8,513 hands, setting Guinness world record |
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Publishes Good Hunting |
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December 16 |
Sends Great White Fleet on its round-the-world cruise |
1908 |
May 13-15 |
Convenes first White House governors conference to discuss conservation of natural resources |
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November 3 |
William Howard Taft elected to Presidency |
1909 |
January 13 |
Rides 100 miles from Washington, D.C., to Warrenton, Virginia, to set example for military officers |
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February 22 |
Greets Great White Fleet on its return to the United States |
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March 23 |
Begins African safari with son Kermit |
1910 |
March 30 |
Leaves Africa, begins European tour |
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April 23 |
Delivers “man in the arena” speech at Sorbonne, Paris |
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June 18 |
Triumphant return to New York City |
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August 31 |
Delivers New Nationalism speech at Osawatomie, Kansas |
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October 11 |
Flies in airplane near St. Louis |
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Publishes African and European Addresses, African Game Trails, American Problems, The New Nationalism, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, and European Addresses |
1912 |
February 21 |
Announces that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination |
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June 18-22 |
Defeated by Taft at Republican National Convention in Chicago |
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August 5-7 |
National Progressive Party convenes in Chicago |
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October 14 |
Shot while campaigning in Milwaukee |
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November 5 |
Takes second place in Presidential election |
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Publishes The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood |
1913 |
May 26-31 |
Prevails in libel suit against Michigan editor who accused him of public drunkenness |
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October 4 |
Departs for South America to lecture and explore |
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Publishes Autobiography, History as Literature and Other Essays and Progressive Principles |
1914 |
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Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition explores the River of Doubt in the Amazon basin |
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May 7 |
Returns to the United States |
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Publishes Through the Brazilian Wilderness |
1915 |
April-May |
Defendant in libel suit filed by New York Republican leader William Barnes (wins) |
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Publishes America and the World War |
1916 |
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Publishes Fear God and Take Your Own Part and A Booklover’s Holidays in the Open |
1917 |
May 19 |
President Wilson refuses Roosevelt’s offer to lead a rough rider division on the western front in World War I |
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Publishes The Foes of Our Own Household and National Strength and International Duty |
1918 |
July 14 |
Son Quentin killed in air action in Europe |
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Publishes The Great Adventure |
1919 |
January 6 |
Dies in his sleep, 4:15 a.m. Sagamore Hill |
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January 8 |
Funeral services at Christ Church, Oyster Bay burial at Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay |