Eleanor Roosevelt was born October 11, 1884
Elliot Roosevelt dies of alcoholism August 13, 1894
Eleanor enrolls at Allenswood Private School in England 1899
Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor's uncle, becomes the president 1901 Eleanor marries Franklin Delano Roosevelt in New York March 17, 1905
Eleanor gives birth to her first child, Anna Rossevelt 1906
Eleanor gives birth to her second child, James Roosevelt December 23, 1907
Eleanor gives birth to her fourth child, Franklin Jr. He dies of influenza soon after March 18, 1909
Eleanor attends her first Democratic Party Convention 1912
Eleanor volunteers at St. Elizabeth Hospital to visit World War I veterans; She volunteers at the International Congress of Working Women in Washington. 1919
Franklin Roosevelt becomes paralyzed from his waist down from polio 1921
The Democratic National Committee appoints Eleanor director of Bureau of Women's Activities; FDR is elected as governor of New York. 1928
The New York Stock Exchange crashes October 24, 1929
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president of the United States 1932
Eleanor becomes the first wife of a president to hold all-female press conferences March 6, 1933
Eleanor arranges for Marian Anderson to sing at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday 1934
She begins publishing the syndicated column, "My Day" 1935
FDR runs for the election again and wins 1936
Eleanor makes an impromptu speech at the Democratic National Convention which helps FDR to win an unprecedented third term in office. July 17, 1940

Eleanor joins the NAACP board of directors 1945

Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies while resting in Warm Springs, Georgia April 12, 1945
Eleanor is elected as head of the United Nations Human Rights Commission 1946
The Human Rights Declaration is passed by the United Nation December 10, 1948
Eleanor resigns from the United Nations 1952
Eleanor visits the Soviet Union as a representative of the New York Post 1957