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.
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 ("Ted") 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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| 1893 |
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Publishes The Wilderness Hunter |
| 1894 |
April 10 |
Son Archibald ("Archie") 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 “Citizenship in a Republic” speech (today popularly known as "Man in the Arena") at Sorbonne, Paris |
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May 26
June 7
June 18 |
Awarded Honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Cambridge Delivers "The Conditions of Success" lecture at the Cambridge Union Awarded Honorary Doctor of Civil Laws degree at Oxford Delivers "Biological Analogies in History" Romanes Lecture 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 |
