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U.S. HISTORY INTERACTIVE THEODORE ROOSEVELT TIMELINE BY BILL EBERIUS COPYRIGHT © 1999 U.S. HISTORY INTERACTIVE |
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"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes
up short again and again, because there is no effort without error
or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows,
in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst,
if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither
victory nor defeat." "Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910 |
| TIMELINE | |
| October 27, 1858 | Theodore Roosevelt is born to Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt at East Twentieth Street New York. |
| September 1876 | Begins college education at Harvard 1876 - 1880 |
| Summer 1877 | First printed work is published. The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y. This was a scientific catalog in which he records ninety-seven species of birds both in thumbnail sketch and song. |
| February 9, 1878 | Stomach cancer takes the life of Theodore Roosevelt Sr. |
| February 14, 1880 | Officially announces engagement to Alice Hathaway Lee |
| June 30, 1880 | Graduates from Harvard College as a B.A. magna cum laude, twenty-first in a class of 177. |
| October 27, 1880 | Marries Alice Hathaway Lee on his 22nd birthday |
| May 1881 | Climbs the Matterhorn on his honeymoon trip with Alice to Europe. |
| November 8, 1881 | Elected to the New York State Assembly from New York City. At age 23 he is the youngest man in the legislature. He served three consecutive terms and was elected minority leader in his second term. |
| 1882 | Theodore Roosevelt's first book The Naval War of 1812 is published. This became a textbook at several colleges and by 1886, by special regulation, one copy was to be on each Navy vessel. This work was well received on both sides of the ocean. By the end of his life he would write 38 books. |
| September 18, 1883 | Makes an initial $14,000 dollar investment in cattle ranching in the Dakota Territory at Little Missouri. |
| February 12, 1884 | Alice gives birth to T.R.'s first child Alice Lee Roosevelt while T.R. is working in the Assembly at Albany |
| February 14, 1884 | Tragedy strikes with a double dose. Roosevelt's mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt dies of typhoid fever in the same house on the same day that his wife Alice Hathaway Roosevelt dies from Bright's disease. She dies on the 4th anniversary of their engagement. Theodore Roosevelt drew a large cross in his diary on this date with the words "The light has gone out of my life." |
| March 8, 1885 | Completed writing his second book Hunting Trips of a Ranchman |
| Summer 1886 | Completed writing his third book which was a biography on Thomas Benton for the American Statesman series published by Houghton Mifflin. |
| November 2, 1886 | Defeated in the Mayoral election of New York. He ran third as the Republican Canidate (60,435) behind Abram S. Hewitt (democrat, 90,552) and Henry George (Independent, 68,110) in what has been considered one of the finest mayoral contests in New York City history. Roosevelt accepted the party nomination even though no one in the party gave any Republican canidate a chance to win. |
| December 2, 1886 | Marries his childhood sweetheart Edith Carow in London, England |
| September 1887 | Completed writing his fourth book and the second one he had written for the American Statesman series, Gouverneur Morris |
| September 12, 1887 | Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. is born to Theodore Roosevelt and his second wife Edith Carow Roosevelt. This was Edith's first child and TR's first son. |
| January 1888 | Roosevelt organizes the Boone & Crockett Club with George Bird Grinnell, editor of Forest and Stream, and is elected its first president. Roosevelt would remain the president of Boone & Crockett until 1894. |
| October 1888 | Putnam puts out Roosevelt's Essays in Practical Politics which is a reissue in book form of two pieces written by TR; "Phases of State Legislation" (1884) and "Machine Politics in New York City" (1886) |
| December 1888 | Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail is published which is a compilation of six articles written for Century. |
| April 1889 | First two volumns of Winning of the West were completed. |
| May 7, 1889 - May 5,1895 | U.S. Civil Service Commisioner under both Harrison and Cleveland Administrations |
| May 6, 1895 - April 19, 1897 | President of the Board of Police Commisioners in New York City. Roosevelt took a corrupt organization and changed it into one of the finest. |
| April 19, 1897 - May 6, 1898 | Assistant Secretary of the Navy |
| May 15, 1898 - September 16, 1898 | Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt served with the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish-American War. This group was more commonly known as the "Rough Riders". Before his service was completed he would receive the rank of Colonel. |
| July 1, 1898 | Achieved hero status in leading the Rough Riders in their charge up San Juan Hill, Cuba |
| November 8, 1898 | Elected Governor of New York |
| November 6, 1900 | Elected to vice president on the McKinley ticket. |
| September 14, 1901 | Takes over as President after the McKinley assassination. The oath of office is given in Buffalo, New York. T.R. becomes the 26th President. |
| November 8 - 26, 1906 | Roosevelt goes to inspect the building of the Panama Canal and in so doing becomes the first President to travel abroad while in office. |
| December 10, 1906 | Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in ending the Russo-Japenese War in 1905. He became the first American to win any Nobel Prize |
| January 6, 1919 | T.R. dies at his home, Sagamore Hill, at age 60 of coronary embolism. |