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Theodore was born in NY City .
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He is betrothed to Alice Mathaway Lee.
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He joins the National Guard.
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Mrs. Alice Roosevelt died .
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As Chairman of the Committee on Cities he presented a report which resulted in vital changes in the Charter of New York City.
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Roosevelt becomes Delegate to the Republican National Convention.
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Abram S. Hewitt, the son-in-law of Peter Cooper defeats TR as Republican candidate for mayor of New York City.
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Son Theodore Roosevelt was born.
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Third child is born at Sagamore Hill.
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Thodore resigns US Civil Service, an commissions to become Police Commissioner of NYC.
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He is apppointed as assistant secretary of the Navy by President William McKinley.
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He is nominated by the Republican Party for Governor of New York State.
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Becomes vice predisdent of the United States .
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At age 42, Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States and is sworn into office at about 3:15 p.m. at the Ansley Wilcox Mansion, 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, the youngest man ever to become President.
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Proclaimed Pelican Island, Florida as first federal bird reservation; total of 51 bird reservations established by Roosevelt administration.
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Wichita Forest, Oklahoma made first federal game preserve. Other federal game preserves established by TR are Grand Canyon (1908); Fire Island, Alaska (1909); and National Bison Range, Montana (1909).
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for ending Russo-Japanese War in 1905; first American to win Nobel Prize in any of the six categories. (TR received award while in Europe in 1910.)
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Republican National Convention meets in Chicago and renominates incumbent Taft even though TR has won all but one primary and caucus. Roosevelt supporters bolt, charging "theft" of nomination.
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Shot in the chest while entering an automobile outside the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee, WI by would-be assassin John Nepomuk Schrank at about 8:00 p.m. Campaigning on the "Bull Moose" ticket, TR delivers a 90-minute speech at the Auditorium in Milwaukee before seeking medical attention. The bullet would never be removed. [Schrank was declared insane on November 13, 1912 and committed to the Northern State Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh, WI, and died at the Central State Hospital in Waupun,
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Died in his sleep at Sagamore Hill of coronary embolism (arterial blood clot) at age 60.
