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Eleanor Roosevelt was Born
Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in a fine townhouse in Manhattan. -
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Elliot Bulloch Roosevelt
Her older brother Elliot was born and caught diphtheria and died. -
Eleanor´s father left
When she was six, her father left to a sanitarium to deal with his drinking problem. -
Eleanor´s mother get ill
Her mother became ill with painful headaches. -
Gracie Hall Roosevelt
The youngest brother of Eleanor was born. -
Eleanor´s mother died
Eleanor´s mother de beautiful Anna died. -
Eleanor´s father died
Eleanor´s father; Elliott Roosevelt died. During this time Eleanor had lost mother, brother and father. -
Eleanor Roosevelt went to Allenswood.
Eleanor was sent by her grandmother to Allenswood; a private academy for girls located on the outskirts of London. -
Eleanor Roosevelt left Allenswood.
When she was almosr eighteen years old, she left Allenswood, not returning for her fourth year there. -
Franklin Roosevelt proposed marriage to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Franklin promised that his love was indeed “for life,” and Eleanor
agreed to marry him. -
Eleanor Roosevelt married with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Eleanor and Franklin were married. -
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Eleanor Rosevelt gave birth to five more babies.
After giving birth to their firtst child, during the next nine years Eleanor gave birth to five more babies, one´s of whom died in infancy. -
Eleanor´s and Franklin´s Roosevelt first child was born.
Their first child was born. During the next nine years
Eleanor gave birth to five more babies, one of whom died in infancy. -
He was elected to the New York State Senate.
In 1910 he was elected to the New York State Senate. -
President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, which was a powerful position in the national government, which required the Roosevelts to move to Washington, D.C. -
The United States entered World War I
The United States entered World War I as an active combatant. -
Franklin was choosen candidate for vice-president of the United States.
The Democratic Party chose Franklin as its candidate for
vice-president of the United States. -
Franklin fell ill.
He fell ill with infantile paralysis polio which was the horrible disease that each year used to kill or cripple thousands of children, and many adults as well. -
Franklin was elected governor of New York.
He was elected governor of New York. -
Franklin was elected president of the United States
Four years after Franklin was elected governor of New York, he was elected president of the United States -
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Eleanor Roosevelt was first lady of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt was first lady of the United States -
Japanese forces launched attack on the American naval base.
Japanese forces launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as well as on other American installations in the Pacific. -
Eleanor helped the Red Cross raise money.
She visited barracks and hospitals on islands throughout the South Pacific. -
Franklin Roosevelt died.
Franklin Roosevelt, who had gone to Warm Springs, Georgia, for a rest, was dead. -
President Harry S. Truman invitede Eleanor to be part of the United Nations.
President Harry S. Truman invited her to be one of the American delegates going to London to begin the work of the United Nations. -
The human rights won the approval of the UN.
Declaration of Human Rights won approval of the UN General Assembly by a vote of forty-eight to zero. -
Eleanor Roosevelt died
At the age of seventy-eight, Eleanor died in her sleep. She was buried in the rose garden at Hyde Park, alongside her husband.