Life of Theodore
Roosevelt Chronology
1858, October 27th - Born at 28 East Twentieth
Street, New York City.
"My father was the best man I ever knew. My mother was a sweet,
gracious, beautiful Southern woman, a delightful companion and beloved by
everybody."
1880, June 30 - Graduates from Harvard University.
"The
teaching which I received was genuinely democratic in one way. It was not so
democratic in another. I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling
that a man must be respected for what he made of himself. But I had also,
consciously or unconsciously, been taught that socially and industrially pretty
much the whole duty of man lay in thus making the best of himself; that he
should be honest in his dealings with others and charitable in the old-fashioned
way to the unfortunate; but that it was no part of his business to join with
others in trying to make things better for the many by curbing the abnormal and
excessive development of individualism in a few."
1880, October 27 - Marries Alice Hathaway Lee.
1881 - Publishes The Naval War of 1811.
1881-1884 - Member of the New York State Assembly.
1883 - September. Establishes himself as a ranchman in
western Dakota.
1884, February 14 - Death
of his mother and his wife.
"It
was a grim and an evil fate, but I have never believed it did any good to
flinch or yield for any blow, nor does it lighten the blow to cease from
working." (Private letter, March 1884.)
1884, April - As Chairman of the Committee on Cities,
presents report which results in vital changes in the charter of New York City.
1884, June - Delegate to the Republican National Convention.
1884-1886 - Ranchman in the Bad Lands of Dakota.
"It
was still the Wild West in those days, the Far West, the West of Owen Wister's
stories and Frederic Remington's drawings, the soldier and the cowpuncher. That
land of the West has gone now, 'gone, gone with lost Atlantis,' gone to the
isle of ghosts and of strange dead memories. ... In that land we led a hardy
life. Ours was the glory of work and the joy of living."
1885 - Publishes Hunting Trips of a Ranchman.
1886, November - Candidate for Mayor of New York. Defeated
by Abram S. Hewitt.
"But
anyway, I had a bully time."
1886, December 1 - Marries Edith Kermit Carow, in London.
1887- Publishes Life
of Thomas Hart Benton.
1888 - Publishes Life
of Gouverneur Morris. Publishes Ranch
Life and the Hunting Trail. Publishes
Essays in Practical Politics.
1889 - Publishes first two volumes of The Winning of the West;
succeeding volumes were published, in 1894
and 1896.
1891 - Publishes History
of New York.
1893 - Publishes The
Wilderness Hunter.
1889-1895 - United States Civil Service Commissioner.
"The
opposition to the reform is generally well led by skilled parliamentarians, and they fight with
the vindictiveness natural to men who see a chance of striking at the
institution which has baffled their ferocious greed. These men have a gift at office-mongering,
just as other men have a peculiar knack
in picking pockets; and they are joined
by all the honest dull men, who vote wrong out of pure ignorance, and by a very
few sincere and intelligent, but wholly misguided people."
1895 - Publishes, in collaboration with Henry Cabot Lodge, Hero Tales from American History.
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| Theodore Roosevelt as President of the Police Commission of the City of New York |
1895-1897 - President of the Police Commission of the City
of New York.
"There
is nothing of the purple in it. It is as grimy as all work for municipal reform
over here must be for some decades to come; and it is inconceivably arduous,
disheartening, and irritating, beyond almost all other work of the kind. ... It
is not work to be done on a rosewater basis."
1897- Publishes American
Ideals.
1897-1898 - Assistant Secretary of the Navy. "The shots that hit are the shots that
count."
1898 May - Resigns as Assistant Secretary to become
Lieutenant-Colonel of the First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry. the Rough Riders.
"A
man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals in so far as he can.
Now, I have consistently reached what our opponents are pleased to call 'Jingo Doctrines'
for a good many years. One of the commonest taunts directed at men like myself
is that we are armchair and parlor Jingoes who wish to see others do what we
only advocate doing. I care very little for such a taunt, except as it affects
my usefulness, but I cannot afford to disregard the fact that my power for
good, whatever it may be, would be gone if I didn't try to live up to the doctrines I have to
preach."
June 24 - Baptism of fire at Las Guasimas.
July 1 - Battle of San Juan Hill.
"As
for the political effect of my actions — in the first Place, I never can get on
in politics, and in the second, would rather have led that charge and earned my
colonelcy than served three terms in the United States Senate. It makes me feel
as though I could now leave something to my children which will serve as an
apology for my having existed."
1898, November 8 - Elected
Governor of New York.
"At
that time boss rule was at its very zenith. . . . In each case I did my best to
persuade Mr. Platt not to oppose me. ... It was only after I had exhausted all
the resources of my patience that I would finally, if he still proved
obstinate, tell him that I intended to make the fight anyhow."
1899 - Publishes The
Rough Riders.
1900 - Publishes Oliver
Cromwell. Publishes The Strenuous
Life.
1900, June 11 - Nominated for Vice-President by the Republican Party.
"If
I have been put on the shelf, my enemies will find, that I can make it a cheerful place or
abode."
1901, March 4 - Takes office as Vice-President.
1901, September 14 - President McKinley dies as the result
of an assassin's bullet; Roosevelt becomes twenty-sixth President of the United
States.
"The
course I followed, of regarding the Executive as subject only to the people,
and, under the Constitution, bound to serve the people affirmatively in cases
where the Constitution does not explicitly forbid him to render the service,
was substantially the course followed by both Andrew Jackson and Abraham
Lincoln."
1901, June 17 - Reclamation Act.
1901, June 18 - Isthmian Canal Act.
1901, October 15 - Roosevelt settles the coal strike.
"May
Heaven preserve me from ever again dealing with so wooden-headed a set as these
coal-operators, when I wish to preserve their interests!" ... "I
shall never forget the mixture of relief and amusement I felt when I thoroughly
grasped the fact that while they would heroically submit to anarchy rather than
have Tweedledum, yet if I would call it Tweedledee, they would accept it with
rapture; it gave me an illuminating glimpse into one corner of the mighty
brains of these 'captains of industry.'"
1901, December 31- Roosevelt settles the Venezuela affair.
"I
told John Hay that I would now see the German Ambassador, Herr von Holleben,
myself, and that I intended to bring matters to an early conclusion. Our navy
was in very efficient condition."
1903, February 19 - Elkins Rebate Act.
1903, March - Roosevelt settles the Alaskan Boundary dispute.
1903, November 13 - Recognition of the Republic of Panama.
"Panama
declared itself independent and wanted too complete the Panama Canal, and opened
negotiations with us. I had two courses
open. I might have taken the matter
under advisement and put it before the Senate, in which case we should have had a
number of most able speeches on the
subject, and they would have been going
on now, and the Panama Canal would be in the dim future yet. We would have had
a half century of discussion, and perhaps the Panama Canal. I preferred we
should have the Panama Canal first and the half century of discussion
afterward.
1903, December 17 - Reciprocity Treaty with Cuba.
1904, November 8 - Elected President over Alton B. Parker,
the Democratic nominee.
"I
am glad to be President in my own right."
1905, March 4 - Inaugurated as President.
1905, September 5 - Signing of Russo-Japanese Treaty.
"It
is enough to give anyone a sense of sardonic amusement to see the way in which
the people generally, not only in my
own country but elsewhere, gauge the work purely by the fact that it succeeded.
If I had not brought about peace I should have been laughed at and condemned. Now I am over-praised."
1905, September - Publishes
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter.
1906, June 11- Forest Homestead Act.
1906, June 19 - Hepburn Rate Act.
1906, June 30 - Food and Drug Act.
1907, December 16 - American fleet starts round the world.
1909, February 11- Return of the fleet.
"In
my own judgment the most important service that I rendered to peace was the
voyage of the battle-fleet round the world."
1909, March 4 - Roosevelt retires from the Presidency, being
succeeded by William Howard Taft,
1909, March 13 - Sails for Africa.
1909-1910 - Hunting in Central Africa.
"There are no words that can tell the
hidden spirit of the wilderness that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy,
and its charm. There is delight in the hardy life of the open, in long rides,
rifle in hand, in the thrill of the fight with dangerous game. Apart from this,
yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the
large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees
the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth,
unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time
everlasting."
1910, March 14 - Arrives at Khartum.
1910, May 31- Address at the Guildhall, London.
"Either
you have the right to be in Egypt or you have not, either it is or it is not
your duty to establish and keep order. . . . Some nation must govern Egypt. I
hope and believe that you will decide that it is your duty to be that
nation."
1910, June 18 - Returns to New York. Publishes African Game Trails.
1910 - Publishes The New Nationalism.
1912, February 15 - Announces candidacy for the Republican
nomination for President.
"My
hat is in the ring."
1912 - Publishes Realizable
Ideals.
1912, June - Defeated at the Republican National Convention.
1912, August 7 - Nominated for President by the Progressive
Party.
"This
country will not be a good place for any of us to live in if it is not a reasonably good place
for all of us to live in." . . .
"Laws are enacted for the benefit of the whole people, and cannot and must
not be construed as permitting
discrimination against some of the
people."
1912, October 14 - Shot at Milwaukee.
"I
did not care a rap for being shot. It is a trade risk, which every prominent
public man ought to accept as a matter of course."
1912, November 5 - Defeated by Woodrow Wilson.
1913 - Publishes Theodore Roosevelt — an Autobiography. Publishes
History as Literature and Other Essays.
1914-1915 - Winter. In the Brazilian wilderness; explores
the River of Doubt.
"I
had to go. It was my last chance to be a boy."
1914 - Publishes Through
the Brazilian Wilderness. Publishes, in collaboration with Edmund Heller, Life
Histories of African Game Animals.
1915, January 1 - Publishes America and the World War.
"The
kind of 'neutrality' which seeks to preserve 'peace' by timidly refusing to live up to our
plighted word and to denounce and take
action against such wrong as that
committed in the case of Belgium, is unworthy of an honorable and powerful people. Dante
reserved a special place of infamy in
the Inferno for those base angels who
dared side neither with evil nor with good. Peace is ardently to be desired, but only as
the handmaid of righteousness. The only
peace of permanent value is the peace
of righteousness. There can be no such peace until well-behaved, highly civilized
small nations are protected from
oppression and subjugation."
1915, May - Libel-suit, William
Barnes vs. Theodore Roosevelt; decided in favor of Roosevelt.
1916 - Publishes A Booklover's
Holidays in the Open. Publishes Fear
God and Take Your Own Part.
1916, June -
Nominated for President by the Progressive Party; refuses the nomination and
gives his support to the Republican candidate, Charles E. Hughes.
"We
have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States. We have room for
but one language, the language of the Declaration of Independence and the
Gettysburg speech."
1917, February - Requests permission of President Wilson to
raise and equip a division of volunteers for service in France.
"Peace
is not the end. Righteousness is the end." . . . "If I must choose
between righteousness and peace I choose righteousness."
1917, May - Request finally refused.
1917 - Publishes The
Foes of Our Own Household.
1918, July - Death of Quentin Roosevelt in France. Roosevelt
refuses Republican nomination for Governor of New York. Publishes The Great
Adventure.
"Our
present business is to fight, and to continue fighting until Germany is brought
to her knees. Our next business will be to help guarantee the peace of justice
for the world at large, and to set in order the affairs of our own household.'
1919, January 6 - Death of Roosevelt.
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