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Dolley Madison is born to a Quaker family in Guillford County, North Carolina.
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Dolley and John Todd get married. John Todd is a lawyer for Quakers so her family and John become friends quickly.
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Her first son John Payne was born.
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Dolley and John have another son named William Temple.
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Dolley's first husband, John Todd, dies along with their first son from the yellow fever epidemic of Philedelphia.
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She marries James Madison at her sisters estate. Because she married a Episcopalian member and not a Quaker she was disowneed from her family and friends.
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The first Hotel in the U.S. opens in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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Aaron Burr is charged with Treason for trying to set up a seperate nation on lands that are with the U.S. and Spain. He was later found innocent.
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Congress prohibits African Slave trade.
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The British attack uppetr Canada and make their way down to the White House. As they were setting fire to the House Dolley saved a large amount of valuables including a portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart.
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Francis Scott Key writes the "Star Spangled banner" but did not know that his song would become our countries National Anthem.
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Francis Lowell opens the first U.S. factory able to make raw cotton into cloth by using machinary.
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Richard Allen creates the first Methodist Episcopalian Church.
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The American colonization Society transported free blacks back to Africa.
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Dolley Madison retires at the age of 49 and moves to the Madison family estate, Montpleier in Orange County.
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The U.S. goes through its first economic deppresion.
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both fie 15 years after signing the Declaration of Independence.
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Massacheusetts is the last state to stop supproting churches with taxes.
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James Madison, her second husband, dies.
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Dolley Madison dies in Washington D.C. of arthritis or then known as rheumatism.
