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Barack Hussein Obama is born
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Barack's parents divorce and his father goes back to Kenya. Young Barack stays with his mother.
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Graduated at Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in political science -
While a summer associate in 1989 at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin, Obama had met Chicago native Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer at the firm.
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Went back to school at Harvard and graduated with Magnum Cum Laude -
As an active democrat, he organized Project Vote, a drive that registered tens of thousands of African Americans on voting rolls and that is credited with helping Democrat Bill Clinton win Illinois and capture the presidency in 1992
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Barack and Michelle Robinson are lawfully wedded
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Obama wrote his first book and saw it published. The memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995), is the story of Obama’s search for his biracial identity by tracing the lives of his now-deceased father and his extended family in Kenya.
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In 1996 he was elected to the Illinois Senate, where, most notably, he helped pass legislation that tightened campaign finance regulations, expanded health care to poor families, and reformed criminal justice and welfare laws. -
Wins the election in 2008 and then was Reelected in 2012. His second term ended in 2016.
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He is awarded a Nobel piece prize for his diplomatic efforts with the rest of the world.