| | |
| October - 1858 |
| 27 | Theodore Roosevelt born | |
| April - 1861 |
| 12 | Civil War declared | |
| August - 1861 |
| 06 | Edith Carrow's birthday | |
| July - 1863 |
| 02 | Battle of Gettysburg begins. | |
| May - 1869 |
| 12 | Leaves for Liverpool on the Roosevelt Grand Tour | |
| July - 1869 |
| 13 | Sail down the Thames and crosses English Channel to Antwerp | |
| October - 1869 |
| 28 | In Cologne. Rather depressed noting it is "the first of my birthdays that it snowed on." | |
| March - 1870 |
| 10 | Tours Paris | |
| July - 1870 |
| 16 | "I hunted for birds nests and in the Afternoon, went swimming and got caught in the rain" | |
| 17 | "Went to Sunday school wrote a letter and played about" | |
| 18 | "Went over to the Harraymans for tea and had a nice time. | |
| October - 1872 |
| 16 | Leaves for tour of Egypt and the Holy Land | |
| November - 1872 |
| 28 | Arrives in Egypt "the land of my dreams" | |
| December - 1872 |
| 12 | Family leaves Cairo for Nile cruise | |
| 25 | Gets double barreled breech loading shotgun from TR Senior | |
| April - 1873 |
| 28 | In Vienna "I bought a black cock and used up all my arsenic on him" | |
| November - 1873 |
| 05 | Return to US from Egypt tour. Family moves to new mansion at 6 West Fifty Seventh | |
| November - 1875 |
| 01 | Physical condition: Chest 34 Waist 26 1/2 Thigh, etc | |
| September - 1876 |
| 27 | Moves into Mrs. Richardson's boarding house at 16 Winthrop Street | |
| October - 1876 |
| 26 | Takes place in demonstration for Hayes | |
| January - 1877 |
| 28 | Elliot hunting buffalo in Staked Plains, TX. | |
| February - 1877 |
| 26 | In the midst of a month long battle with measles. | |
| July - 1877 |
| 09 | Finishes observations to be included in first published work: The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks. | |
| December - 1877 |
| 16 | Theodore Sr.'s nomination to Collector of Customs rejected 25 to 31 | |
| February - 1878 |
| 09 | TR Senior died | |
| 12 | TR Senior buried | |
| September - 1878 |
| 07 | Meets Bill Sewall in northern Maine | |
| 26 | Heading to Mattawamkeag Station after first visit to Maine. | |
| October - 1878 |
| 06 | Accepts membership into Harvard Porcelain Club | |
| 18 | Meets Alice Hathaway Lee | |
| November - 1878 |
| 02 | At Porcelain initiation, "…was higher with wine than I ever have been before-or will be again. Still, I could wind my watch. Wine makes me awful fighty." | |
| 26 | Begins teaching Sunday school at Christ Church on Garden Street opposite Cambridge Common. | |
| March - 1879 |
| 01 | Romping through Maine | |
| 06 | Start of thirty mile pung trip through snow and woods with Bill Sewall with temperature -10. | |
| 22 | Boxing match with Hanks. | |
| July - 1879 |
| 05 | "I am leading the most delightful life a fellow well could…" | |
| December - 1879 |
| 26 | Lunch with Edith Carrow. | |
| February - 1880 |
| 14 | Engaged to Alice Lee | |
| June - 1880 |
| 30 | Graduates from Harvard B.A. magna cum laude 21st in a class of 177 | |
| July - 1880 |
| 20 | Travels with Alice to Bar Harbor, ME to scale mountains and go for long hikes through the "perfectly magnificent scenery" | |
| 29 | Reflecting on an evening out with Alice: "How I love her! She seems like a star of heaven, she is so far above other girls; my pearl, my pure flower." | |
| August - 1880 |
| 09 | Vacationing with Alice in Mt. Desert Island, ME. | |
| October - 1880 |
| 27 | Marries Alice Lee | |
| November - 1880 |
| 17 | Start law school | |
| December - 1880 |
| 08 | Corrine Roosevelt's coming out party | |
| January - 1881 |
| 05 | Attends Mrs. William Astors January Ball | |
| May - 1881 |
| 05 | Suffers first defeat in politics over the New York City Street Cleaning Bill | |
| 12 | Departs with Alice for a summer abroad | |
| July - 1881 |
| 07 | Travelling in Austria and Bavaria. | |
| August - 1881 |
| 05 | Begins climb of the Matterhorn | |
| 06 | Reaches Matterhorn summit and descends | |
| 10 | Arrives in Basel with Alice. | |
| October - 1881 |
| 02 | Returns to New York after summer abroad with Alice | |
| 24 | Opposes nomination of William Trimble for Assemblyman of Twenty First district to Albany. | |
| 28 | Nominated for the Assembly by Joe Murray and wins 16-9. | |
| November - 1881 |
| 09 | Wins election to Albany Assembly 3490 to Stre's 1989 | |
| December - 1881 |
| 03 | Submits The Naval War of 1812 to Putnam | |
| January - 1882 |
| 02 | Checks into the Delavan House, Albany in preparation for first year in Assembly. | |
| 24 | Recognized for first time in Assembly | |
| February - 1882 |
| 14 | Given position on Cities Commission | |
| March - 1882 |
| 30 | Introduces resolution to investigate Judge Westbrook and Attorney General Ward RE: Manhattan Elevated affair. | |
| April - 1882 |
| 05 | Motion to investigate Westbrook is stalled by Alvord. | |
| 12 | Motion to investigate Westbrook and Ward passes 104 to 6. | |
| May - 1882 |
| 31 | Westbrook/Ward voted down after last minute bribery of several committee members 77 to 35. | |
| January - 1883 |
| 01 | Elected Speaker of the Republican Assembly - 4225 to 2016. Youngest member of the Assembly | |
| March - 1883 |
| 07 | Reverses position on Five Cent Bill and votes with the "hated members of Tammany Hall" to accept Governor's Veto of bill. | |
| May - 1883 |
| 28 | Speaks to the Free Trade Club at Clark Tavern. Meets Commander H.H. Gorringe. | |
| September - 1883 |
| 08 | Arrives - Little Missouri | |
| 18 | Engages Ferris and Merrifield to stock a cattle ranching. | |
| 20 | Kills first buffalo | |
| 23 | At the Pyramid Park Hotel in Little Missouri. | |
| December - 1883 |
| 31 | "When the caucus met in the Assembly chamber at eight o'clock, Roosevelt was not only betrayed by those in his own delegation who had promised to support him but was finally defeated by the delivery of all of Littlejohn's votes to Sheard." | |
| January - 1884 |
| 15 | Made Chairman of Special Committee to Investigate the Local Government of the City and County of New York | |
| February - 1884 |
| 14 | Alice Lee and Mittie die. | |
| 16 | Funeral for Alice and Mittie at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. | |
| March - 1884 |
| 01 | Signs contract for construction of Leeholm. Final cost - 22,135. | |
| 09 | "Invites" Sewall and Will Dow to the Maltese Cross | |
| 12 | "…the strongest opponent of the adoption of the Constitution…was Thomas Jefferson; that we got our Constitution, not because of, but in spite of Jefferson and his followers…" | |
| 26 | Introduction of Roosevelt reforms unleash " a scene of uproar and violence to all rules of decency…a howling mob…rushed from their seats…with yells, hisses and denunciations…" | |
| April - 1884 |
| 22 | Checks into the Bagg's Hotel, Utica for New York State Republican Convention. | |
| 24 | Crushes "Boss" Miller in vote for delegate at large 472-243. Yells to Miller "There, damn you, we beat you for last winter." | |
| May - 1884 |
| 31 | Arrives in Chicago for the Republican Convention. | |
| June - 1884 |
| 03 | Republican Convention opens in Chicago | |
| 06 | Blaine nominated for President against all effort by TR. | |
| 12 | Signs contract increasing Dakota investment to $40,000. | |
| July - 1884 |
| 01 | Roosevelt leaves Medora for New York | |
| 06 | Sends Bill Sewall a check for three thousand dollars to pay off Sewall mortgage; a condition before Sewall would move west. | |
| 19 | Defends Cabot Lodge's support of Blaine for President in Boston Herald. | |
| 31 | A thousand head of cattle arrive from Minnesota. "The best lot of cattle shipped west this year" says the Bad Lands Cowboy, | |
| August - 1884 |
| 01 | On his first night at Maltese Cross, Bill Sewall remarks that "I don't believe that it is much of a cattle country." TR disagrees heartily. | |
| 18 | Departs Maltese Cross for the Big Horn Mountains. | |
| 29 | Kills two deer with one bullet. "This was much the best shot I ever made." | |
| September - 1884 |
| 13 | Gets first grizzly | |
| 19 | Dines at Fort McKinney, Buffalo, WY. | |
| October - 1884 |
| 09 | Returns to New York from Dakota. | |
| 18 | Address before the Young Republican Club of Brooklyn, NY. | |
| 20 | Address before the Republicans of Malden, MA. "...no disaster suffered by the Federal armies during the long war for the Union would have begun to equal in importance the terrible disaster that it would have been to have had McClellan elected as President." | |
| 22 | "A gentleman told me recently that he doubted if I would vote for the Angel Gabriel if found at the head of the Democratic party, to which I responded that the Angel Gabriel would never be found in such company." | |
| 29 | Blaine's Presidential campaign stumbles after the "…rum, Romanism and Rebellion" speech by Rev. Burchard. | |
| 30 | "I know very well Mr. Quincy intended to tell the truth, but his efforts were singularly unsuccessful." | |
| November - 1884 |
| 18 | "Boss beavered down seventeen [trees]" | |
| December - 1884 |
| 14 | Hunting Big Horn sheep near Bullion Butte. | |
| March - 1885 |
| 08 | Finishes "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman." | |
| May - 1885 |
| 05 | Picks up new herd in Medora. Survives late night stampede. | |
| 19 | Arrives Box Elder Creek to assist in Bad Lands spring round up. | |
| June - 1885 |
| 20 | Withdraws from Bad Lands roundup after riding for 32 days and over 1000 miles. | |
| August - 1885 |
| 08 | Marches in the funeral parade for General Grant. | |
| 27 | Publishes call for Stockmen's Association in Badlands Cowboy. | |
| October - 1885 |
| 26 | Hosts the Long Island Meadowbrook Hunt at Sagamore Hill. Breaks arm, smashes face and chases Baby Lee. | |
| 30 | Letter to Lodge: "I don't grudge the broken arm a bit…I am always willing to pay the piper when I have had a good dance; and every now and then I like to drink the wine of life with brandy in it." | |
| November - 1885 |
| 17 | TR proposes to Edith Carrow. She accepts. | |
| March - 1886 |
| 24 | Discovers Elkhorn boat has been stolen. | |
| 30 | Starts pursuit of boat thieves. | |
| April - 1886 |
| 01 | Captures Red Head Finnegan and other boat thieves. | |
| 11 | Arrives in Dickinson with prisoners after covering 300 miles and received fees as deputy sheriff for arrest and mileage - $50. | |
| 18 | Arrives Miles City as a delegate to larger Montana Stock Growers Convention. | |
| May - 1886 |
| 21 | Start of Spring round up in the Bad Lands. | |
| June - 1886 |
| 02 | Stampede near Maltese Cross. | |
| 23 | Wrote Lodge that he had been in the saddle at 2:00 am the day before…and had not stopped working until 8:15 pm. Tells Bamie "it is now five weeks since I have had breakfast as late as four o'clock [am]." | |
| July - 1886 |
| 04 | Delivers speech as Orator of the Day in Dickinson, Dakota Territory | |
| 09 | "You've never talked with Theodore Roosevelt? Well, if you ever meet a bright, eager, impulsive and positive young man with a square plump face, a mustache that looks as though it had suffered from drouth, two pearly rows that glitter when he speaks, and blue laughing eyes that squint with emphasis, you can rest assuered that he is Theodore Roosevelt." | |
| August - 1886 |
| 21 | Mountain goat hunting in Big Hole Basin, MT. | |
| October - 1886 |
| 15 | Speech at Cooper Union Hall, NYC. | |
| 16 | Accepts nomination for Mayor of New York City. | |
| 25 | Speech at a meeting of dry-goods men in NYC. | |
| 28 | Statue of Liberty unveiled | |
| November - 1886 |
| 04 | Runs third to Hewitt and George in NYC Mayoral race | |
| 07 | Meets Arthur Spring-Rice aboard the Etruria while heading to Europe with Edith. | |
| December - 1886 |
| 02 | Marries Edith in St. George's, Hanover Square | |
| March - 1887 |
| 28 | Returns after a fifteen week tour of England, France and Italy. | |
| April - 1887 |
| 20 | "The losses are crippling." Estimates 65% of herd lost after brutal Bad Lands winter. | |
| May - 1887 |
| 11 | Speaks at the Inaugural Banquet of the New York Federal Club at Delmonico's Restaurant NYC. | |
| 25 | Puck magazine states "You are not the timber of which Presidents are made." | |
| September - 1887 |
| 04 | Gouverneur Morris manuscript submitted. | |
| 13 | Theodore Jr. Born. | |
| January - 1888 |
| 15 | "I shall probably never be in politics again." Winning of the West begins to evolve. | |
| May - 1888 |
| 01 | Begins actual writing of The Winning of the West. | |
| December - 1888 |
| 13 | Address before the Federal Club, NYC. "...the more foolish among our foes now whine that the election was "bought." The gentlemen who assert this are deficient either in intellect or in sense of humor." | |
| April - 1889 |
| 27 | Lodge brings message from White House RE: Civil Service Commissioner | |
| May - 1889 |
| 13 | Arrives in DC to accept Civil Service commission. | |
| 20 | Investigates NYC Custom House for mismanagement and fraud. | |
| June - 1889 |
| 20 | In Milwaukee, investigating Post Office corruption | |
| July - 1889 |
| 10 | Meets with President Harrison, who appears to support Civil Service reforms and investigations, | |
| August - 1889 |
| 05 | Harrison allows Postmaster Paul to resign rather than be fired for fraud. "It was a golden chance to take a good stand; and it had been lost" | |
| September - 1889 |
| 22 | Reviewer of Winning of the West states "It would have been simply impossible for him to do what he claims to have done in the time that was at his disposal." | |
| October - 1889 |
| 10 | Responds to review of WW that accuses him of plagiarism and fraud with "There is a half-pleasurable excitement in facing an equal foe; but there is none whatever in trampling on a weakling." | |
| December - 1889 |
| 02 | TR throws support for Speakership of House behind Thomas B. Reed, who is elected to same post on this day. | |
| 30 | Presents paper on "Certain Phases of the Westward Movement in the Revolutionary War' to American Historical Association. | |
| January - 1890 |
| 27 | Congress orders investigation of Civil Service commission due, in part, to Roosevelt's promises to help Shidy in Postmaster Paul affair. | |
| February - 1890 |
| 28 | Shidy testifies badly. Roosevelt says "I do not care to talk to you any more. You have cut your own throat." | |
| May - 1890 |
| 10 | Read Alfred Mayhan's book "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History." | |
| June - 1890 |
| 13 | Committee exonerates Civil Service Commission of all charges. | |
| March - 1891 |
| 30 | Travels to Baltimore to view Election practices. | |
| June - 1891 |
| 07 | Harsh letter condemning Elliot. | |
| 14 | Letter to Elliot saying they should consider paying Katy Mann to keep out of headlines. | |
| July - 1891 |
| 01 | Meets with President Harrison. "He is a genial little runt, isn't he." | |
| August - 1891 |
| 04 | Submits report on Baltimore election practices. | |
| 13 | Ethel Roosevelt born. | |
| 17 | Elliot's problems become headlines, first published in the New York Sun, then in all major dailies. | |
| October - 1891 |
| 10 | "As usual, I come back to rumors of my own removal." | |
| January - 1892 |
| 09 | Leaves New York to confront Elliot. | |
| April - 1892 |
| 19 | House votes to investigate Baltimore election irregularities. | |
| May - 1892 |
| 02 | Roosevelt presents evidence in Baltimore case and skewers the Honorable Postmaster General John Wanamaker. | |
| 25 | Wraps up testimony against Wanamaker. NY Times reports "The exposure he [Wanamaker] has suffered from Mr. Roosevelt is merciless and humiliating, but is clearly deserved." | |
| August - 1892 |
| 11 | Article in the Outlook critiquing President Harrison's Foreign Policy. | |
| 25 | Speaks to a mass meeting, assembled in his honor, at Deadwood Opera House, Dakota. | |
| November - 1892 |
| 14 | Address at the memorial meeting to George William Curtis at the Unitarian Club of New York. | |
| December - 1892 |
| 07 | Anna Roosevelt, Elliot's wife, dies at age 29. | |
| January - 1893 |
| 26 | An address before the Liberal Club of Buffalo, NY titled "The Duties of American Citizenship." | |
| February - 1893 |
| 20 | Speaks to the Boston Civil Service Reform Association. | |
| 21 | Addresses a dinner of the Boston Civil Service Reform Association. | |
| May - 1893 |
| 01 | World's Fair opens in Chicago. | |
| 15 | Dedicates Boone and Crockett Club cabin at World's Fair. | |
| August - 1893 |
| 28 | President Cleveland repeals Silver Purchase Act. | |
| April - 1894 |
| 10 | Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt born. | |
| August - 1894 |
| 14 | Elliot Roosevelt dies | |
| October - 1894 |
| 22 | Decides not to run for NYC Mayoralty. | |
| March - 1895 |
| 07 | Entertains Rudyard Kipling. | |
| April - 1895 |
| 03 | Accepts position of New York Police Commissioner. | |
| May - 1895 |
| 06 | First day as Police Commissioner | |
| 07 | Takes oath of office for Police Commissioner. | |
| 24 | Forces notorious Inspector "Clubber" Williams to resign. | |
| 28 | Chief of Police Byrnes resigns under pressure from TR. | |
| June - 1895 |
| 07 | First night out with Jacob Riis, looking for lackadaisical police work. | |
| 10 | Directs Police to "rigidly enforce" the closing of all New York City Saloons between midnight Saturday and Midnight Sunday. | |
| 15 | Steaks and an impromptu speech to reporters in Mike Lyons Steakhouse in the Bowery. | |
| 20 | "I DO not deal with public sentiment. I deal with the law." | |
| 30 | The driest Sunday in Seven Years as 97% of NYC taverns are closed. | |
| July - 1895 |
| 12 | In response to Sunday bar closings: "A glass of beer with a few crackers in a humble restaurant is just as much a poor man's lunch on Sunday as is Mr. Roosevelt's elaborate champagne dinner at the Union League Club." | |
| 16 | Speaks to German-Americans at the Good Government Club . | |
| 21 | 500,000 citizens of NYC leave the city to quench their thirst on Long Island and New Jersey. | |
| August - 1895 |
| 05 | Letter bomb addressed to TR fails to explode after being opened by a mail clerk. | |
| 07 | Rousing speech to Catholic Total Abstinence Union's national convention in Carnegie Hall. | |
| September - 1895 |
| 25 | Invited to United Societies for Liberal Sunday Laws parade in Germantown and, to the surprise of all, attends and speaks. | |
| January - 1896 |
| 19 | Meets with "Easy Boss" Platt to confirm rumors that Platt is trying to legislate TR out of office. Rumor is confirmed. | |
| 20 | Begins assault on Platt at the New York Methodist Ministers' Association. | |
| 24 | "The Republican Plot to Oust Roosevelt" is detailed in the NY Times. Platt withdraws legislation shortly thereafter. | |
| February - 1896 |
| 28 | Conflict arises with Commissioner Parker over promotions | |
| March - 1896 |
| 24 | Stalemate with Parker drags on. Headline "His the voice of Authority, But Parker's the Hand that Holds the Rod" | |
| 24 | "Roosey whistles" appear on New York streets | |
| May - 1896 |
| 05 | Comptroller Fitch's testy exchange result in the offering of a duel. "Pistols or anything else!" yells Roosevelt. Cools off and tells reporters there will be no duel. | |
| June - 1896 |
| 01 | Attends Annual Police parade | |
| 18 | McKinley defeats Reed at the Republican Convention in St. Louis 661 1/2 to 84 1/2. | |
| July - 1896 |
| 16 | Speaks to newly promoted police captains at NYPD headquarters. | |
| 28 | Visits with Mark Hanna at the Waldorf, NYC. | |
| August - 1896 |
| 03 | After meeting with Hanna, a discouraged Roosevelt writes to Spring-Rice, "Bryan closely resembles Thomas Jefferson, whose accession to the Presidency was a terrible blow to this nation." | |
| 12 | Bryan opens the Democratic campaign in Madison Square Garden where "he was a stupendous disappointment." | |
| September - 1896 |
| 11 | Campaigning for McKinley, TR attacks Bryan; "It is fitting that with the demand for free silver should go the demand for free riot." | |
| October - 1896 |
| 02 | Visits with McKinley in Canton, OH while campaigning with Lodge. | |
| 15 | Speech before the American Republican College League, Chicago IL regarding Mr. Bryan: "It is not merely schoolgirls that have hysterics; very vicious mob-leaders have them at times and so do well-meaning demagogues when their heads are turned by the applause of men of little intelligence and their minds inflated with the possibility of acquiring solid leadership in the country." | |
| November - 1896 |
| 29 | Lodge has lunch with McKinley and intimates TR for Assistant Secretary of the Navy | |
| December - 1896 |
| 16 | Supports Platt's nomination to the Senate, opposing his old mentor, Joseph H. Choate. | |
| January - 1897 |
| 23 | Addresses US Naval Academy. | |
| April - 1897 |
| 06 | Nominated Assistant Secretary of the Navy at a salary of $4500. | |
| 19 | Assumes Assistant of Secretary responsibilities. | |
| 19 | Resigns from Police Commission. | |
| June - 1897 |
| 02 | Makes first public address as Assistant Secretary at Naval War College at Newport Rhode Island. Attracts nationwide attention. | |
| 13 | McKinley approve treaty annexing Hawaii. | |
| July - 1897 |
| 11 | Cruises from Oyster Bay to Newport in a Navy torpedo boat | |
| 23 | Speech in Sandusky causes controversy: "The United States is not in a position which requires her to ask Japan or any other foreign power, what territory is shall or shall not acquire." | |
| August - 1897 |
| 02 | Secretary of Navy Long leaves DC. TR installed as "the hot weather secretary." | |
| 19 | Letter to Bellamy Storer: "I am having immense fun running the Navy." | |
| 23 | "The liveliest spot in Washington at present is the Navy Department. The decks are cleared for action. Acting Secretary Roosevelt, in the absence of Governor Long, has the whole Navy bordering on a war footing. It remains only to sand down the decks and pipe to quarters for action. | |
| September - 1897 |
| 05 | Publishes quotes on the US Navy by past Presidents as "The Naval Policy of America as Outlined in Messages of the Presidents of the United States from the Beginning to the Present Day." | |
| 07 | Boards battleship Iowa for gunnery exercises | |
| 14 | Afternoon drive with President McKinley who congratulated TR on management of the Navy department | |
| 27 | Begins campaign for Dewey to be appointed Admiral of Asiatic station. | |
| November - 1897 |
| 19 | Quentin Roosevelt born. | |
| January - 1898 |
| 25 | USS Maine drops anchor in Havana Harbor. | |
| February - 1898 |
| 09 | Journal publishes Minister de Lome's intercepted letter causing outrage for it's characterizations of McKinley and Spain's intentions in Cuba. | |
| 15 | USS Maine blown up killing 262 sailors. | |
| 25 | Secretary Long leaves for afternoon. As Acting Secretary Roosevelt orders Dewey to keep full of coal and to prepare for offensive action against the Philippine Islands. | |
| March - 1898 |
| 07 | Edith undergoes surgery to remove abscess from hip. | |
| April - 1898 |
| 11 | McKinley reluctantly asks Congress for a declaration of war with Spain. | |
| 19 | Congress declares war on Spain. | |
| 23 | Secretary of War Alger offers command of "special" regiment to TR. TR suggests Leonard Wood, with himself as lieutenant colonel. 23,000 applications flood in, wanting to be part of the Rough Riders. | |
| May - 1898 |
| 01 | Dewey crushes Spanish Fleet off Manila | |
| 06 | Receives commission into Army. | |
| 12 | Departs for San Antonio. | |
| 15 | Arrives San Antonio wearing a new fawn uniform with canary-yellow trim. | |
| 20 | Preparing for war in San Antonio, TX. | |
| 26 | Rough Riders asked to contribute to the outdoor performance of The Calvary Charge oblige by discharging over 2000 rounds, blowing out lights and causing pandemonium | |
| 29 | Rough Riders strike camp in San Antonio for Tampa. | |
| June - 1898 |
| 02 | Rough Riders arrive in Tampa. | |
| 13 | Task force leaves Tampa for Cuba. | |
| 22 | Landing in Cuba. | |
| 24 | The Battle of Las Guasimas | |
| 26 | Discovers stockpile of eleven hundred pounds of beans on beach. Requisitions for Rough Riders. Carries one sack eight miles through jungle. | |
| July - 1898 |
| 01 | The Battle of San Juan Hill. "The great day of my life." | |
| 15 | Camp near Santiago: "The water was running over the ground in a sheet, and the mud was knee-deep; so I was a drenched and muddy object when I got to a neighboring tent, where I was given a blanket, in which I rolled up and went to sleep." | |
| 18 | Promoted to full Colonel. | |
| August - 1898 |
| 08 | Rough Riders depart Santiago Harbor for Montauk, Long Island. | |
| 15 | Rough Riders arrive in Long Island from Cuba. | |
| 19 | Meets with Lemuel Quigg, Platt's lieutenant, to discuss Roosevelt interest in running for Governor. | |
| September - 1898 |
| 04 | Meets McKinley at Camp Wikoff. | |
| 10 | Writing to the Secretary of War from Camp Wikoff: "...As to the first issue, the blue shirts were excellent of their kind, but altogether too hot for Cuba. They are just what I used to wear in Montana. The leggings were good; the shoes were very good; the undershirts not very good, and the drawers bad-being of heavy, thick canton flannel, difficult to wash, and entirely unfit for a tropical climate. The trousers were poor, wearing badly." | |
| 13 | Receives Remington's bronze "The Bronco Buster" from the Rough Riders. "To have such a gift come from this peculiarly American regiment touches me more than I can say. This is something I shall hand down to my children, and I shall value it more than I do the weapons I carried through the campaign." | |
| 15 | Rough Riders muster out on " the day which marked the close of the four months' life of a regiment of as gallant fighters as ever wore the United States uniform." | |
| 17 | Meets with Platt at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and accepts nomination for Governor. | |
| 24 | Governor Black accuses Roosevelt of not being a New York resident as Roosevelt had claimed DC residency to escape NY taxes. | |
| 25 | Nominated for New York Governor. | |
| October - 1898 |
| 05 | Gives first campaign speech of Governors contest at Carnegie Hall. | |
| 05 | Address at the opening of the gubernatorial campaign, NYC. "Greatness means strife for nation and man alike. A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage." | |
| 17 | Leaves on the Roosevelt Special to campaign throughout New York State. | |
| 19 | Campaigning for Governor: "It may, perhaps, be said without irreverence that a man should in his public as well as private life strive to conform his conduct to the principles laid down in those two ancient guides to conduct, the Decalogue and theGolde Rule." | |
| November - 1898 |
| 08 | Wins Governorship by a mere 17,794 votes. | |
| January - 1899 |
| 02 | First Annual Message to Albany Legislature, | |
| March - 1899 |
| 20 | Sends Martha Place to the electric chair. First woman executed in the state of New York | |
| 24 | Angry meeting with Platt over the Ford Bill which proposes to tax corporations doing business in New York state. | |
| 29 | Refuses to stay Martha Places's execution. First woman executed by electric chair in New York. | |
| May - 1899 |
| 09 | Address to the City Club, NYC. "A corporation is simply a collection of men, who may do well or who may do ill. The thing to do is to make them understand that if they do well you are with them, but if they do ill you are ever and always against them." | |
| 19 | Address at the Independent Club, Buffalo, NY titled "Property and the State." | |
| 27 | Signs Ford Bill into law. | |
| 30 | Address at Grant's Tomb, NYC. "There is a time to be just and there is a time to be merciful, there is a time for unyielding resolution and a time for the hand of fellowship and brotherly love. The great man is the man who knows the time for one and the time for the other." | |
| July - 1899 |
| 01 | Writes to Lodge regarding Vice Presidential prospects for 1900 election. | |
| August - 1899 |
| 02 | Finishes initial writing on Oliver Cromwell | |
| September - 1899 |
| 30 | Parade for Dewey in NYC. | |
| November - 1899 |
| 21 | Vice President Hobart dies. | |
| March - 1900 |
| 14 | Congress passes act for gold standard. | |
| May - 1900 |
| 11 | McKinley gives dinner in Roosevelt's honor. | |
| June - 1900 |
| 19 | Republican National Convention opens in Philadelphia. | |
| 21 | "Don't any of you realize that there's only one life between this madman and the Presidency?" Mark Hanna on the prospect of TR's Vice Presidential nomination. | |
| 21 | McKinley and Roosevelt nominated for Republican candidates. TR casts the only dissenting vote for his nomination. | |
| September - 1900 |
| 16 | "…he was also heard to murmur while sitting a horse on the bluff above Medora, "Looking back to my old days here I can paraphrase Kipling and say 'Whatever may happen I can thank God I have lived and toiled with men.'" | |
| October - 1900 |
| 03 | Campaign stop in Deadwood, South Dakota. | |
| 12 | Speech at Evansville, IN responds to various questions from Bryan. | |
| November - 1900 |
| 06 | McKinley defeats Bryan by nearly 750,000 votes and 292-155 in the electoral college. | |
| January - 1901 |
| 11 | Arrives in Meeker, Colorado for cougar hunting trip. | |
| 14 | Kills first cougar with a knife thrust behind its shoulder as dogs occupy its head and hindquarters. | |
| 17 | "...we got a big lynx in the top of a pinon tree." | |
| 29 | Letter to Ethel from the Keystone Ranch describing a pig named Maude. | |
| 31 | Kills a blue female cougar. Length 6'7" Weight 120 pounds. "The fourteen cougars we killed showed the widest variation not only in size but in color...Some were as slaty gray as deer when in the so-called 'blue'; others, rufous, almost as bright as deer in the 'red.'" | |
| February - 1901 |
| 11 | "... we rode back to the Keystone Ranch, carrying the three cougar-skins behind our saddles." | |
| March - 1901 |
| 04 | Second Inauguration of William McKinley | |
| 27 | I wish to see us act upon the old frontier principles, "Don't bluster, don't flourish your revolver and never draw unless you intend to shoot." | |
| June - 1901 |
| 21 | Address at Clark University, Worcester, MA. " "The first duty of each one of you here is to carry your own weight - to carry yourselves. You are not going to be able to do anything for any one else until you can support yourselves and those dependent upon you. I do not want to see you develop that kind of idealism which makes you filled with vague thoughts of beneficence for mankind and an awful draw-back to your immediate families." | |
| September - 1901 |
| 04 | Arrives, Rutland, Vermont for a series of speaking engagements. | |
| 06 | McKinley shot by Leon Czolgosz, a young anarchist, in Buffalo's Temple of Music. | |
| 13 | Receives news of McKinley's death after climbing Mt. Marcy, the highest point in the Adirondacks. | |
| 14 | Sworn in as the 26th President | |
| October - 1901 |
| 16 | Dinner with Booker T. Washington results in outrage from Southern newspapers. | |
| December - 1901 |
| 03 | First message to Congress. | |
| February - 1902 |
| 19 | Investigation of Northern Securities announced, | |
| May - 1902 |
| 03 | Has one of his favorite horses, Bleistein, photographed while jumping in Chevy Chase, MD. | |
| June - 1902 |
| 11 | Address at the Centennial Celebration of the establishment of the United States Military Academy, West Point. | |
| 28 | Congress authorized the President to enter into treaty with Colombia for the building of the Canal across the Isthmus of Panama. | |
| July - 1902 |
| 03 | Executive Order to "...require that appointments of all unclassified laborers, both in the departments at Washington and in the field-service, shall be made with the assistance of the United States Civil Service Commission…" | |
| August - 1902 |
| 22 | Address at the Coliseum, Hartford, CN. | |
| September - 1902 |
| 03 | Injured by a runaway trolley car which smashed into his carriage. | |
| 08 | Address before the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Chattanooga, TN. | |
| October - 1902 |
| 03 | Meets with representatives of the operators and miners during coal strike. | |
| 13 | Letter to Kermit about life at Groton and playing football. | |
| 15 | Resolution of coal strike. "I shall never forget the mixture of relief and amusement I felt when I thoroughly grasped the fact that while they would heroically submit to anarchy rather than have Tweedledum, yet if I would call it Tweedledee they would accept it with rapture…" | |
| 17 | Resolution of the United Mine Strike. | |
| 20 | "At this moment, my small daughter being out, I am acting as nurse to two wee guinea pigs…" | |
| November - 1902 |
| 01 | "...11,650 rural free-delivery routes had been established and were in operation, covering about one third of the territory of the United States available for rural free-delivery service." | |
| 22 | Speech at the Founders' Day banquet of the Union League, Philadelphia, PA. | |
| 27 | "... we all went out riding, looking as we started a good deal like the Cumberbach family." | |
| 28 | "...we all went out riding, looking as we started a good deal like the Cumberbach family...We had a three hours' scamper which was really great fun." | |
| February - 1903 |
| 14 | Department of Commerce and Labor created. | |
| April - 1903 |
| 08 | "John Burroughs and I reached the Yellowstone Park…" | |
| 09 | Camps along the Yellowstone River below Cottonwood Creek with John Burroughs. | |
| 16 | Communes with deer while writing letters in Yellowstone Park, WY. | |
| 29 | Address before the National and International Good Roads Convention, St. Louis, MO. | |
| 30 | Address at the dedication ceremonies of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis. | |
| May - 1903 |
| 06 | Riding in the Grand Canyon. | |
| 10 | In Del Monte, CA. "...I rode along the beach I saw seals, cormorants, gulls and ducks, all astonishingly tame." | |
| 26 | Speech in Spokane, WA. | |
| June - 1903 |
| 06 | Informs Lodge that "Josiah, the young badger, is hailed with the wildest enthusiasm by the children,…" | |
| 15 | Speech at the Saengerfest, Baltimore, MD. | |
| August - 1903 |
| 16 | "To-day all, young and old, from the three houses went with us to Service on the great battleship Kearsarge-for the fleet is here to be inspected by me to-morrow." | |
| 23 | "...I rowed mother out to the end of Lloyds Neck…" | |
| 25 | Children's tennis matches. "I officiated as umpire and furnished the prizes, which were penknives." | |
| September - 1903 |
| 17 | Address at Antietam, MD. | |
| 29 | Meets with the president of the American Federation of Labor regarding the re-instatement of a non-union worker in the Government. | |
| October - 1903 |
| 01 | Quentin gets two rabbits. | |
| 11 | Regarding Ted's playing third squad, rather than second squad football "... I do not in the least object to your getting smashed if it is for an object that is worth while…" | |
| 18 | "...as I marched up to the top they assailed me with shrieks and chuckles of delight and then the pillow fight raged up and down the hall. After my bath I read them from Uncle Remus." | |
| 24 | Suffers "a touch of Cuban fever, my only unpleasant reminiscence of the Santiago campaign." | |
| 28 | At Uncle Gracie's funeral "...and yet though they had throngs of policemen inside, too, an elderly and harmless crank actually got inside with them to present me some foolish memorial about curing the German Emperor from cancer." | |
| November - 1903 |
| 03 | Panamanian revolution begins. | |
| 04 | Marines land in Colon, Panama to protect American interests during the revolution. | |
| 16 | Address at the centennial of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. | |
| January - 1904 |
| 04 | In a special message to Congress, "I enumerated a partial list of revolutions, insurrections, disturbances, and other outbreaks that had occurred on the Isthmus of Panama during the fifty-three years preceding the negotiation of our treaty with the republic of Panama itself." | |
| 18 | Magician Kellar performs at White House. "...at the end of the next trick..suddenly developed a delightful white guinea pig, squirming and kicking and looking exactly like Admiral Dewey…" | |
| 21 | Letter to Ted regarding examination papers for West Point and Annapolis. | |
| February - 1904 |
| 18 | Lunch with Buffalo Bill. | |
| 23 | The treaty between the United States and the republic of Panama ratified by US Senate. | |
| April - 1904 |
| 09 | Letter to Ted: "I am very glad I have been doing this Japanese wrestling...My right ankle and my left wrist and one thumb and both great toes are swollen sufficiently to more or less impair their usefulness...since you left they have taught me three new throws that are perfect corkers." | |
| 23 | The canal properties of the French Canal Company are transferred to the United States for $40,000,000. | |
| May - 1904 |
| 24 | Address at the Groton School, Groton, MA. "Let me at the beginning thank the rector for what I shall hope was a personal allusion to me, because it is the only time in my life that I have been even indirectly compared to Apollo." | |
| 27 | "...poor Peter Rabbit [Archie's pet] died and his funeral was held with proper state." | |
| 30 | Speech in Gettysburg, PA. | |
| June - 1904 |
| 19 | Address at the Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, PA. | |
| July - 1904 |
| 27 | Address at Oyster Bay, NY "I AM deeply sensible of the high honor conferred upon me by the representatives of the Republican party assembled in convention, and I accept the nomination for the presidency with solemn realization of the obligations I assume." | |
| September - 1904 |
| 12 | Accepts nomination for President of the United States. | |
| October - 1904 |
| 14 | "...went to the theatre to see 'The Yankee Consul,' which was quite funny." | |
| December - 1904 |
| 06 | Fourth Annual Message to Congress. | |
| 17 | Letter to kermit: " Mother looks very young and pretty. This afternoon she was most busy, taking the little boys to the theatre and then going to hear Ethel sing. " | |
| January - 1905 |
| 04 | Playing with children at the White House. "I do not think that one of them saw anything incongruous in the President's getting as bedaubed with mud as they got, or in my wiggling and clambering around jutting rocks, through cracks, and up what were really small cliff faces, just like the rest of them…" | |
| 05 | Address to the Forest Congress, Washington, D.C. | |
| 24 | Passage of Act "creating the Wichita Game Preserves, the first of the national game-preserves." | |
| February - 1905 |
| 13 | Address at the Lincoln dinner of the Republican Club, NYC. | |
| March - 1905 |
| 13 | Address before the National Congress of Mothers, Washington, D.C. | |
| April - 1905 |
| 07 | Address to a reunion of Rough Riders in front of the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas. "Thermopylae had its messengers of death but the Alamo had none." | |
| 08 | Departs Frederick, OK "for a few days' coyote-coursing in the Comanche Reserve." | |
| May - 1905 |
| 14 | Letter to Kermit: "Yesterday afternoon we played tennis, Herbert Knox Smith and I beating Matt and Murray.To-day I shall take cunning mother out for a ride." | |
| June - 1905 |
| 05 | "...Commander Takashita brought in half a dozen Japanese naval officers who had been with Togo's fleet off Port Arthur…" | |
| 09 | At Pine Knot, "In the morning I fried bacon and eggs, while Mother boiled the kettle for tea and laid the table." | |
| 28 | Address at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. | |
| August - 1905 |
| 26 | While on Long Island, "The Plunger (a submarine) has come to the Bay and I am going out in it this afternoon-or rather down on it." | |
| October - 1905 |
| 11 | Letter to Ted regarding Harvard activities: "In my day we looked with suspicion upon all freshman societies, and the men who tried to get them up or were prominent in them rarely amounted to much in the class afterwards." | |
| 18 | Speech at Capitol Square, Richmond, VA. | |
| 24 | Address at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, AL. | |
| November - 1905 |
| 19 | Letter to Kermit: "Normally I only care for a novel if the ending is good...There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction." | |
| December - 1905 |
| 19 | Gives his nurse twenty dollars for Christmas and discusses plans to play hide and seek in the White House. | |
| April - 1906 |
| 14 | Address at the laying of the corner-stone of the office-building of the House of Representatives. | |
| 22 | Reflecting on Quentin and Archie: "If ever there was a heaven-sent treasure to small boys, that sand-box is the treasure." | |
| 24 | Address on the occasion of the reinterment of the remains of John Paul Jones at Annapolis, Md. | |
| May - 1906 |
| 04 | While walking the White House grounds, " I saw a Cape May warbler, the first I had ever seen. It was in a small pine. It was fearless, allowing a close approach, and as it was a male in high plumage, it was unmistakable." | |
| 20 | Letter to Ted discussing Dickens' characters. "Dickens' characters are really to a great extent personified attributes rather than individuals." | |
| June - 1906 |
| 08 | National Monuments Act of June 8, 1906. Among the monuments created are Muir Woods, Pinnacles National Monument in California, and the Mount Olympus National Monument, Washington. | |
| 24 | "To-day as I was marching to church, with Sloane some 25 yards behind, I suddenly saw two terriers racing to attack a kitten which was walking down the sidewalk. I bounced forward with my umbrella, and after some active work put to flight the dogs…" TR noticed two woman watching his exploits and asked them if they would like the kitten. They did and he continued on to church. | |
| 29 | Passage of Act " providing for the establishment of the Grand Canyon Game-Preserve of Arizona, now comprising one million four hundred and ninety-two thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight acres." | |
| 30 | Passage of Act regulating shooting in the District of Columbia and making three-fourths of the environs of the national capital within the District in effect a national refuge. | |
| October - 1906 |
| 04 | Dedication ceremonies of the new State Capitol building at Harrisburg, PA. | |
| 23 | Narrates a race between Archie and his dog Skip in the White House halls. | |
| November - 1906 |
| 03 | Hunting for wild turkey at Pine Knot. | |
| 11 | On board U.S.S. Louisiana in transit to Panama. | |
| 12 | "reading Milton's prose works, 'Tacitus,' and a German novel called 'Jorn Uhl.'" in transit to Panama. | |
| 14 | Advice to Ted: "...as one grows older the bitter and the sweet keep coming together. The only thing to do is to grin and bear it, to flinch as little as possible under the punishment, and to keep pegging steadily away until the luck turns." | |
| 15 | Tours canal construction with Edith. " I tramped everywhere through the mud." | |
| 21 | Visits Puerto Rico on return from Panama. | |
| December - 1906 |
| 10 | Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for role in ending Russo-Japanese War. | |
| March - 1907 |
| 03 | "Archie has diphtheria, and we have had a wearing forty-eight hours. Of course it is harder upon Mother a good deal than upon me…" | |
| April - 1907 |
| 12 | Address at Arlington National Cemetery for the unveiling of the monument in memory of the dead of the First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry. | |
| 15 | Arbor Day message from the President to the school children of the United States. | |
| 26 | Speaks at opening of the Jamestown Exposition. | |
| 29 | "This afternoon Mother and I are going out riding with Senator Lodge." | |
| May - 1907 |
| 18 | While at Pine Knot in Albemarle County, VA, "I saw a small party of a dozen or so passenger-pigeons, birds I had not seen for a quarter of a century and never expected to see again." | |
| 31 | Speech at Semicentennial Celebration of the Founding of Agricultural Colleges in the United States, Lansing, MI. | |
| July - 1907 |
| 08 | Spots a Maryland yellow throat near Sagamore Hill. "We did not have to wait long before we heard an unmistakably new warbler song-loud, ringing, sharply accented, just as the yellow-throat's song is described in Chapman's book. " | |
| August - 1907 |
| 20 | Address at the laying of the corner-stone of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument, Provincetown, MA. | |
| September - 1907 |
| 28 | Quentin interrupts meeting with Attorney General and entertains waiting Congressmen with his snakes. | |
| October - 1907 |
| 01 | "After speaking at Keokuk [Iowa] this morning we got aboard this brand new stern-wheel steamer of the regular Mississippi type and started down-stream. I went up on the Texas and of course felt an almost irresistible desire to ask the pilot about Mark Twain." | |
| 03 | Swimming in a lake in Stamboul, LA. | |
| 03 | Address at Cairo, IL. | |
| 04 | Address before the Deep Waterway Convention at Memphis, TN. | |
| 11 | In the Tenesas Bayou | |
| November - 1907 |
| 04 | Meets with Judge E. H. Gary and Mr. H. C. Frick on behalf of the Steel Corporation. | |
| 19 | Sends letter to Cabinet directing any attempt at re-nomination to be halted. | |
| December - 1907 |
| 27 | Sleepover at the White House. "I interfered but once, and that was to stop an exquisite jest of Quentin's, which consisted in proctoring sulphureted hydrogen to be used on the other boys when they got into bed." | |
| February - 1908 |
| 23 | Critique of Dickens: "...one fundamental difference between Thackeray and Dickens is that Thackeray was a gentleman and Dickens was not. But a man might do some mighty good work and not be a gentleman in any sense." | |
| 29 | Regarding Dickens: "Naturally he would think there was no gentleman in New York, because by no possibility could he have recognized a gentleman if he had met one." | |
| March - 1908 |
| 08 | " I like to see Quentin practicing baseball. It gives me hopes that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game!" | |
| April - 1908 |
| 11 | Re: Quentin's Gang: "Yesterday afternoon was rainy, and four of them played five hours inside the White House. They were very boisterous and were all the time on the verge of mischief, and finally they made spit-balls and deliberately put them on the portraits." | |
| May - 1908 |
| 10 | John Burroughs battles with flying squirrels at the White House. | |
| 11 | Address at the corner-stone laying ceremony for the Bureau of American Republics | |
| 13 | Conference on the Conservation of Natural Resources at the White House. | |
| 17 | Describing the White House: "Mother's flower-gardens are now as beautiful as possible, and the iron railings of the fences south of them are covered with clematis and roses in bloom." | |
| 23 | Establishment of the National Bison Range in Montana. | |
| July - 1908 |
| 22 | Address at the Naval War College, Newport, RI titled "Why the Nation needs an effective Navy." | |
| November - 1908 |
| 25 | Speaks at dedication of monument to General Sheridan in Washington, D.C. | |
| December - 1908 |
| 15 | Address at the Corcoran Art Gallery, at the Saint Gaudens Exhibition. | |
| January - 1909 |
| 18 | Give speech on "The Expansion of the White Races" at African Diamond Jubilee of the Methodist Episcopal Church | |
| 22 | I transmitted the report of the National Conservation Commission to Congress with a special message, in which it was accurately described as "one of the most fundamentally important documents ever laid before the American people." | |
| February - 1909 |
| 12 | Address at Hodgenville, Ky on the Centennial of Lincoln's birthday. | |
| 22 | Greets Great White Fleet at Hampton Roads after voyage around world. | |
| March - 1909 |
| 23 | Departs New York on the Hamburg bound for Africa. | |
| April - 1909 |
| 21 | "...we steamed into the beautiful and picturesque harbor of Mombasa." | |
| May - 1909 |
| 08 | Article on "The Japanese Question." | |
| June - 1909 |
| 04 | Visits the American Industrial Mission in Kijabe. | |
| 05 | "We started south from Kijabe to trek through the thirst, through the waterless country which lies across the way to the Sotik." | |
| July - 1909 |
| 24 | Stops in Nairobi "in order to ship our fresh accumulations of specimens and trophies…" | |
| August - 1909 |
| 04 | "I returned to Lake Naivasha, stopping on the way at Kijabe to lay the corner-stone of the new mission building." | |
| September - 1909 |
| 02 | "...I found two newly born oryx calves. The color of the oryx made them less visible than hartbeest when a long way off on the dry plains." | |
| 06 | "... we were all together again at Meru boma, on the northeastern slopes of Kenia…" | |
| 21 | Safari splits with TR heading for Guaso Nyero. | |
| October - 1909 |
| 21 | Safari reaches Nairobi. | |
| 26 | "Tarlton, Kermit, Heller, and I started from the railroad-station of Londiani, for the Uasin Gishu plateau and the 'Nzoi River…" | |
| 27 | "...we were marching hard, and I had no chance to hunt; I would have liked to take a hunt, because it was my birthday." | |
| November - 1909 |
| 12 | Kermit kills a leopard near the 'Nzor River. | |
| 20 | With the Nandi warriors in Sergoi. "... I did not care to assist as a mere spectator at any more lion-hunts, no matter how exciting -though to do so once was well worth while." | |
| 30 | Arrives at Londiani: "...we were about to leave East Africa, and could only take a few of our personal attendants with us into Uganda and the Nile Valley." | |
| December - 1909 |
| 18 | Leaves Nairobi for Lake Victoria Nyanza. The "Pigskin Library" includes "Cervantes, Goethe's 'Faust,' Moliere, Pascal, Montaigne, St. Simon, Darwin's 'Voyage of the Beagle,' and Huxley's 'Essays.'" | |
| 20 | "... we landed at Entebbe, the seat of the English governor of Uganda." | |
| 22 | Crosses the Nyanza Lake by steamer. | |
| 23 | In Campalla. | |
| 29 | Dines on elephant trunk soup from the beast he and Kermit disposed of the preceding evening. | |
| January - 1910 |
| 03 | After crossing the little Kafu River, "we entered the native kingdom of Unyoro...part of the British protectorate of Uganda [and] halted for a day at Hoima…" | |
| 05 | Arrives at Butiaba on the shores of Lake Albert Nyanza after a march of 160 miles from Lake Victoria. | |
| 07 | Camping along the Nile in Lado country. | |
| 08 | Rhinoceros hunting in the Lado. Shoots cow and calf for the National Museum. Kermit gets the bull. | |
| 10 | Fighting fires on the African plains. | |
| February - 1910 |
| 17 | "safari left Nimule on its ten days' march to Gondokoro" | |
| 27 | In Gondokoro. | |
| 28 | "we started down the Nile, slipping easily along on the rapid current, which wound and twisted through stretches of reeds and marsh-grass and papyrus." | |
| March - 1910 |
| 04 | "steaming slowly along the reedy; water-soaked shores of Lake No." | |
| 15 | Year long Safari concludes in Khartoum. | |
| May - 1910 |
| 05 | Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Christiania, Norway. "We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life; but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him [suffer] wrong." | |
| August - 1910 |
| 31 | Speech at Osawatomie, KN. | |
| September - 1910 |
| 08 | Speech at Freeport, IL. | |
| October - 1910 |
| 24 | Speech at Binghamton, NY. | |
| November - 1910 |
| 04 | Address before the Iowa State Teachers' Association, Des Moines, IA. | |
| December - 1910 |
| 13 | Address before the Chamber of Commerce, New Haven, CN. | |
| March - 1911 |
| 21 | Speech in Los Angeles. | |
| September - 1911 |
| 09 | "I, for one, would rather cut off my hand than see the United States adopt the attitude either of cringing before great and powerful nations who wish to wrong us, or of bullying small and weak nations who have done us no wrong." | |
| February - 1912 |
| 10 | Petition from seven Republican Governors to accept nomination for President if offered. | |
| March - 1912 |
| 20 | Delivers "The Right of People to Rule" while on the offensive against Taft, Carnegie Hall, NYC. Transcript and Sound recording | |
| June - 1912 |
| 17 | Campaigning against Taft at the Auditorium, Chicago, IL. | |
| July - 1912 |
| 13 | Assails Taft in the Outlook: "...President Taft's renomination was stolen for him from the American people and the ratification or rejection of that nomination raises the critical issue whether votes or fraud shall determine the selection of American Presidents." | |
| August - 1912 |
| 06 | Delivers "A Confession of Faith" speech to the national convention of the Progressive party in Chicago. Transcript and Sound recording | |
| 24 | "...For many years the attitude of the Democratic party toward the colored man has been one of brutality, and the attitude of the Republican party toward him one of hypocrisy." | |
| September - 1912 |
| 14 | Address at the Coliseum, San Francisco, CA. | |
| October - 1912 |
| 14 | Shot while entering auditorium in Milwaukee, WI. "The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best." | |
| December - 1912 |
| 10 | Speech in Chicago, IL. | |
| 28 | Address at the Conference on Military History, Boston, MA. | |
| July - 1913 |
| 14 | "...our party gathered at the comfortable El Tovar Hotel, on the edge of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and therefore overlooking the most wonderful scenery in the world." | |
| November - 1913 |
| 21 | "...we crossed the Andes into Chile by rail." | |
| December - 1913 |
| 01 | Observes red-backed tyrant "near Barilloche, out on the bare Patagonian plains." | |
| 09 | "...we left the attractive and picturesque city of Asuncion to ascend the Paraguay." | |
| 10 | Arrives in Concepcion and fishes for piranha. "The only redeeming feature about them is that they are themselves fairly good to eat, although with too many bones." | |
| 12 | Meets Colonel Rondon on the boundary of Brazil and listens to numerous piranha stories. | |
| 13 | "Caymans were becoming more plentiful. The ugly brutes lay on the sand-flats and mud banks like logs, always with the head raised, sometimes with the jaws open...it is good to shoot them. I killed half a dozen…" | |
| 25 | Arrives Corumba. | |
| 27 | Bags ant-eater. | |
| January - 1914 |
| 09 | Bags tapir. | |
| 14 | Jaguar hunting in Brazil after "a good New Year's Day breakfast of hardtack, ham, sardines, and coffee." | |
| 16 | Reaches Tapirapoan, along River of Tapirs, headquarters of the Telegraphic Commission. | |
| February - 1914 |
| 03 | Party leaves Utiarity "to enter a still wilder region, the land of the naked Nhambiquaras." | |
| 04 | "We started into the 'sertao', as Brazilians call the wilderness...Skeletons of mules and oxen were more frequent ; and once or twice by the wayside we passed the graves of officers or men who had died on the road...We camped on the west bank of the Burity River." | |
| 05 | "We camped at the headwaters of a little brook called Huatsui, which is Parecis for 'monkey.'" | |
| 06 | "Our camp on the fourth night was in a beautiful spot, an open grassy space, beside a clear, cool, rushing little river. " | |
| 08 | Crosses the Juruena. " The Juruena is the name by which the Tapajos goes along its upper course." | |
| 15 | Expedition arrives at Campos Novos. | |
| 17 | Arrives Vilhena, "a watershed which drained into the Gy-Parana", from Campos Novos. | |
| 21 | Kermit comes across a band of Nhambiquaras and brings them back to camp. | |
| 22 | Arrives at Brazilian government cattle ranch in Tres Burity. | |
| 23 | Tres Burity to Bonofacio. | |
| 24 | Departs Bonofacio for embarkation on the Duvida, 13 miles distant. Books for the trip included "the last two volumes of Gibbon, the plays of Sophocles, More's "Utopia," "Marcus Aurelius," and "Epictetus" | |
| 27 | "shortly after midday, we started down the River of Doubt into the unknown." | |
| March - 1914 |
| 01 | "Cherrie shot a large dark-gray monkey with a prehensile tail. It was very good eating." | |
| 02 | "We soon found that the rapids were a serious obstacle. There were many curls, and one or two regular falls, perhaps six feet high. It would have been impossible to run them, and they stretched for nearly a mile." | |
| 03 | Start of portage of Navaite Rapids. | |
| 05 | Completes portage of Navaite Rapids. | |
| 07 | Portage #2 - Three days | |
| 11 | Party loses two canoes in the Broken Canoe Rapids. | |
| 14 | After three days work, the replacement canoes have been hewn from the Brazialian jungle and the journey down the River of Doubt continues. | |
| 15 | "In these Rapids died poor Simplicio." Kermit also came close to his demise in this stretch of water. " the fear of some fatal accident befalling him was always a nightmare to me." | |
| 16 | Loss of another canoe. Dog Lobo killed by Indians. "We had been gone eighteen days. We had used over a third of our food. We had gone only one hundred and twenty-five kilometers, and it was probable that we had at least five times, perhaps six or seven times, this distance still to go." | |
| 17 | Another portage. Arrival at Rio Kermit | |
| 18 | Colonel Rondon " formally christened it [Duvida] the Rio Roosevelt." | |
| 22 | After several days stop to build new canoes, party sets out. | |
| 28 | Three day portage through steep canyon. "I thought I had put my clothes out of reach, [but] both the termites and the carregadores ants got at them, ate holes in one boot, ate one leg of my drawers, and riddled my handkerchief..." | |
| April - 1914 |
| 02 | "We had been exactly a month going through an uninterrupted succession of rapids. During that month we had come only about one hundred and ten kilometers, and had descended nearly one hundred and fifty meters-the figures." | |
| 03 | "Under such conditions whatever is evil in men's natures comes to the front." A porter, Julio, kills another porter and runs into the jungle. | |
| 04 | Injures leg while preventing destruction of yet another canoe. George K. Cherrie, expedition naturalist, stated " ...the first night after that accident that he was seriously ill, his temperature going up to something like one hundred and five degrees." | |
| 06 | Julio is sighted along the river. Request to be brought into captivity are rebuffed and the murderer is left in the jungle. | |
| 07 | " The huge catfish which the men had caught was over three feet and a half long…[which] contained the nearly digested remains of a monkey. " | |
| 10 | Repeated portages leads to the remark "How I longed for a big Maine birchbark, such as that in which I once went down the Mattawamkeag at high water ! It would have slipped down these rapids as a girl trips through a country-dance." | |
| 15 | "We had come over three hundred kilometers in forty-eight days, over absolutely unknown ground; we had seen no human being, although we had twice heard Indians." | |
| 26 | "We had been two months in the canoes … [and] had put on the map a river nearly one thousand kilometers in length of which the existence was not merely unknown but impossible if the standard maps were correct." | |
| May - 1914 |
| 07 | "…We bade good-by to our kind Brazilian friends and sailed northward for Barbados and New York." | |
| January - 1915 |
| 06 | Article on John Muir in The Outlook. | |
| 13 | Article in The Outlook eulogizing Admiral Mahan, author of "The Influence of Sea Power upon History." | |
| May - 1915 |
| 09 | Lusitania sunk by German submarine. | |
| June - 1915 |
| 07 | Visits John M. Parker in Pass Christian, MS | |
| July - 1915 |
| 23 | Speech at the American Historical Congress in San Francisco, CA. | |
| October - 1915 |
| 12 | Address to Knights of Columbus, Carnegie Hall, NYC. | |
| November - 1916 |
| 03 | A slightly abrasive critique of Wilson given at Cooper Union, NYC. " There can be no greater misfortune for a free nation than to find itself under incapable leadership when confronted by a great crisis...The times have needed a Washington or a Lincoln. Unfortunately we have been granted only another Buchanan." | |
| February - 1917 |
| 02 | Writes letter to Secretary of War requesting permission to "raise a Division of Infantry, with a divisional brigade of cavalry in the event of war (possibly with the permission to make one or two of the brigades of infantry, mounted infantry)." Request denied. | |
| March - 1917 |
| 19 | "In view of the fact that Germany is now actually engaged in war with us, I again earnestly ask permission to be allowed to raise a division for immediate service at the front." Request rejected the following day. | |
| 25 | Arrives Punta Gorda, FL in search of Devil Fish | |
| November - 1917 |
| 20 | Article in Kansas City Star on Germany and her allies. | |
| December - 1917 |
| 07 | Article in Kansas City Star berates Wilson. "...he is engaged in the betrayal of democracy...The President's proposal represents three separate betrayals." | |
| 21 | " When President Wilson says : 'We do not wish in any way to rearrange the Austria-Hungarian Empire; it is no affair of ours what they do,' he is engaged in the betrayal of democracy…" | |
| July - 1918 |
| 16 | Quentin dies, shot down over France. | |
| 18 | Republican State Convention, Saratoga Springs, NY. | |
| October - 1918 |
| 31 | Mocks President Wilson in The Kansas City Star with article titled "Fourteen Scraps of Paper." | |
| November - 1918 |
| 13 | "There must be so many mothers who feel that they have laid their sacrifice on cold altars...No great triumph is ever won save by the payment of the necessary cost." | |
| January - 1919 |
| 06 | Dies at age 60. "...the most influential and representative American of his generation." | |
