eleanor roosevelt

  • Anna Eleanor Rosevelt was born

  • Elliot Roosevelt (dad) dies of alcoholism

  • Eleanor enrolls in Allenswood School in England.

  • Eleanor leaves Allenswood and makes her society debut at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

  • Eleanor becomes engaged to her fiance Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

  • enrolls in the Junior League of New York where she teaches calisthenics and dancing to immigrants

  • Eleanor marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York city

  • Eleanor gives birth to her first child, Anna Roosevelt

  • Eleanor gives birth to her second child, James Roosevelt

  • Eleanor gives birth to her third child, Franklin, Jr. soon later he dies of influenza

  • Eleanor has her fourth child, Elliott Roosevelt

  • Eleanor gives birth to her fifth child, Franklin Jr. world War I breaks out in Europe

  • Eleanor gives birth to John, her sixth and last child.

  • Franklin Roosevelt becomes paralyzed from polio.

  • The New York Stock Exchange crashes of destruction

  • Eleanor makes an impromptu speech at the Democratic National Convention which helps FDR to win an unprecedented third term in office.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. enters the war in Europe.

  • eleanor roosevelt died of tuberculosis