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Theodore Delano Roosevelt is born
Theodore Delano Roosevelt is born on October 27th, 1858 in Manhattan, New York City. -
Theodore Roosevelt enters Harvard
On September 27th, 1876 Theodore Roosevelt gets accepted into Harvard after studying two years with his tutor Arthur Cutler. -
Theodore meets Alice Hathaway Lee
On October 18th, 1878 Theodore Roosevelt Meets his future spouse Alice Hathaway Lee at Harvard -
Theodore graduates from Harvard
Theodore Roosevelt graduates from Harvard sometime in 1880. -
Roosevelt goes to law school
Sometime in 1880 Theodore Roosevelt entered Columbia Law School. However, he believed law was irrational and often wrote a book about the war of 1812 -
Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway Lee marry
On October 27th, 1880. Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway Lee get married after Theodore won her hand in marriage. -
Alice Hathaway Lee and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt dies.
On February 14th, 1884, Alice Hathaway Lee dies from undiagnosed kidney failure that was masked by her pregnancy. She died two days after her daughter, Alice Lee Theodore was born. Eleven hours earlier, Theodore’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt passed at 3:00 A.M. from Typhoid Fever -
Roosevelt forms the “Rough Riders”
Theodore Roosevelt resigned from his position as secretary of navy in late April of 1898 as the Spanish-American war began. The cavalry unit was only active during the time of the war and received many applications to join the unit. -
Roosevelt and his men land on Cuba
On June 23rd, 1898 Theodore Roosevelt and his men land on Daiquiri, Cuba. Marching to Siboney. -
Theodore Roosevelt for Vice President
In November of 1899, Vice President Garret Hobart died from heart failure. Leaving an empty spot for the 1900 republican national ticket. Despite being urged by Henry Cabot Lodge and many others, Theodore did not take the ticket for the powerless position. Platt, being eager to get rid of Roosevelt, began a news paper campaign for his nomination. Roosevelt would accept the nomination with the exception that he’d be governor for one more year. Roosevelt would win the nomination unanimously. -
Roosevelt takes office
In march 1901 Theodore Roosevelt took office as Vice President. -
“Speak Softly”
On September 2nd, 1901 Roosevelt would publish a Aphorism, “Speak softly and carried a big stick, and you will go far”. The big stick meaning a foreign policy. -
President McKinley dies
On September 14th, 1901 President McKinley passed from medical complications induced from an assassination attempt. -
Theodore Roosevelt successes McKinley
On September 14th, 1901. After McKinley died Theodore Roosevelt was informed on his passing while in north creek. He went to buffalo and was sworn in an the 26th president of the United States at the Ansley Wilcox House. -
President Roosevelt has dinner with Booker T. Washington.
On October 16th, 1901, President Roosevelt invited his advisor, Booker T. Washington to have dinner with him and his family at the White House. This caused an uproar for southern Politicians and press. -
The Coal Strike of 1902
A labor strike occurred in Eastern Pennsylvania by Anthracite Coal Miners on May of 1902, Threatening a national energy shortage. After using the national guard as a threat to end the strike Roosevelt made a deal with the Miners where they would get more Pay for lesser hours without Union recognition. It succeeded in stopping the strike, making Roosevelt the first president to stop a labor dispute. -
President Roosevelt forming the Department of Commerce and Labor.
The Department of Commerce and Labor was formed on February 14th, 1903 by Theodore Roosevelt. -
Election of 1904
In 1904 an election was held between Roosevelt and Mark Hannah. However, when Hannah died along with Pennsylvanian senator Matthew Quay and with Thomas Platt’s power waning Theodore Roosevelt met little opposition. Except for the democratic party’s nominee Alton Brooks Parker. Who lost to Roosevelt from both the electoral and popular vote with Roosevelt holding 336 votes. -
Election of 1908
In 1908 a general presidential election was held, and while Roosevelt enjoyed being in the presidential role he stayed true to his 1904 pledge and decided not to run a third term. Roosevelt personally favored Eli Root, the Secretary of State at the time, to be his successor. However, due to Root’s health conditions, he could not participate. The New York governor Charles Evans Hughes shared Roosevelt Progressivism but he didn’t like the Governor. Instead, Roosevelt selected William Howard Taft. -
Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition
In 1909 Theodore Roosevelt left America to go on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Africa Expedition. Where they travelled from Mombasa, East Africa to the Belgian Congo following the Nile River. In 1910 Roosevelt would become the first president to be on an airplane, taking flight in a Wright-Brothers designed craft for four minutes near ST. Louis, Missouri. -
New Nationalism
In August of 1910 Roosevelt gave a public speech that would serve as his public break with Taft and the conservative republicans. Advocating for a program called “New Nationalism”. Roosevelt would emphasized the need to priority of labor over capital interests. And to control corporate creation and combination, Roosevelt called for a ban on corporate political contributions. -
Assassination attempt
On October 14th, 1912. Roosevelt was shot from seven feet while arriving at a campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. -
World War 1
In 1914, when WW1 began, Roosevelt supported the allies and demanded a harsher foreign policy on Germany. Especially on submarine warfare. Roosevelt aggressively denounced the foreign policy President Wilson made. Calling it a failure in regard to the atrocities happening in Belgium and the violations of American rights. -
The Death of a Progressive.
On January 5th, 1919. Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep from breathing complications, his last words were “Please put out that light, James”. The Vice President Thomas Marshall said “Death had to take Roosevelt in his sleep, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight” on the matter.