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was born in stauton virgina.
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October 16: John Brown raids the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry to obtain arms for a slave insurrection.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president.
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April 12: The Civil War begins as Confederate forces open fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
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August 22: At the Geneva Convention, 12 governments pledge to respect humanitarian rules of war regarding wounded on the field of battle.
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After the Civil War ends, an eight-year old Wilson watches Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, brought through town in chains on his way to a Union prison. April 14: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery, is ratified. Later in the year, the Ku Klux Klan forms to reestablish white authority and intimidate African Americans and other ethnic and religious minorities throughout the South
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Suffering from dyslexia, Wilson remains unable to read at the age of 10. Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital, the economic and political treatise that will become founding document of the international socialist movement
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November 17: The Suez Canal opens in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas
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February 3: The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote, is ratified. Wilson’s family moves to Columbia, South Carolina after his father is appointed a professor in the Columbia Theological Seminary
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Susan B. Anthony and 12 other women are arrested for trying to vote in the presidential election
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The New York gun manufacturing company Remington & Sons begins to mass produce the typewriter, one of the nineteenth century’s many remarkable technological innovations
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Wilson’s family moves to Wilmington, North Carolina. April 15: French painters Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, Armand Guillaumin and Edgar Degas hold an exhibit of their own work featuring a new style of painting - Impressionism.
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Wilson enrolls in Princeton University.
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February 14: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
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Post-Civil War Reconstruction ends in the South with the departure of the last Federal troops from South Carolina.
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A Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote is introduced in Congress. The wording will remain unchanged during the 41 years it takes for the amendment to finally pass in both houses.
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Wilson graduates from Princeton University. Thomas Edison invents the incandescent light bulb.
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Wilson graduates from law school at the University of Virginia.
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Wilson opens law work with Edward Renick in Atlanta, but doesnt finish their partnership the following year, determined to follow his ambitions in politics and government. Germany, Austria, and Italy form a secret Triple Alliance, agreeing to come to each other’s aid should any of the countries be attacked by France. The alliance will define European diplomatic relations until the outbreak of World War I
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A Democrat, Wilson was elected to the US presidency in 1912 after having served as president of his alma mater Princeton University (formerly The College of New Jersey) and as Governor of New Jersey (1910).
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Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921) and his political party was Democrat.Woodrow Wilson was president of America when the Versailles Treaty was signed. Unlike Georges Clemenceau he believed that a more moderate approach was needed to Germany after her defeat in World War One.
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Father: Joseph Ruggles Wilson - Presbyterian Minister.
Mother: Janet "Jessie" Woodrow Wilson.
Siblings: two sisters and one brother.
Wife: (1)Ellen Louise Axson - Daughter of a Presbyterian minister. She died in the White House on August 6, 1914. (2)Edith Bolling Galt - Married on December 18, 1915 while President -
Wilson's term expired, and he retired with his wife to Washington, D.C., where he lived until his death on February 3, 1924. Two days later, he was buried in Washington's National Cathedral, the first president to be laid to rest in the nation's capital
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He was, apparently, the first person to ride a two-wheeled bicycle in Wilmington.
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He was the only president, so far, to earn a Ph.D. degree
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fresh consideration should be given to the position in American history that belongs to Woodrow Wilson. The verdict of public opinion as well as of the historian has not yet been rendered in unmistakable form.
