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Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline 1 - Timeline Help
Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline 1 of 10 from 1884 to 1919 at Timeline Help. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962) was an influential American First Lady, a political and civil rights activist, and a role model for many women in her time. She was famous for her meetings, public speeches and writings on many different political and social causes in the thirties, forties, and fifties of the previous century. Read about her valuable contributions over the years and her efforts for a better society in my ten page long Eleanor Roosevelt timeline.
Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | - 1884 Oct 11
- 1891
- 1892
- 1894
- 1899 - 1902
- 1901
- 1902 Dec 11
- 1903
- 1905 Mar 17
- 1906 May 3
- 1907 Dec 23
- 1908 Mar 18
- 1910 Sep 23
- 1911
- 1912
- 1913
- 1914 Aug 17
- 1916 Mar 17
- 1918
- 1919 | Born in New York City to Elliott and Anna Hall Roosevelt.
Brother Hall is born.
Mother Anna dies of diphtheria. Grandmother Mary Ludlow Hall assumes custody the children. Father is confined to a mental asylum.
Father Elliott dies of alcoholism.
Attends the Allenswood Academy in London, England. Marie Souvestre is her mentor.
Travels to France and Italy accompanied by Marie Souvestre.
Uncle Theodore Roosevelt succeeds William McKinley as President of the USA after McKinley is assassinated.
Makes her debut into society at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
Is engaged to cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Joins the National Consumers' League to investigate the working conditions in garment districts. Volunteers as calisthenics teacher to immigrants in slum areas for the Junior League of New York and Rivington Street Settlement House.
Marries Franklin Delano Roosevelt in New York.
Daughter Anna is born.
Son James is born.
Son Franklin, Jr. is born, he dies of influenza later that year.
Son Elliott is born. FDR becomes state senator, the family moves to Albany.
Endorses the Womens' Suffrage Movement. The first contribution to a social cause in the Eleanor Roosevelt timeline.
Attends the Democratic Party convention for the first time.
FDR is appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Moves to Washington, where she hires Lucy Mercer as personal secretary.
Second son Franklin, Jr. is born. FDR loses the Democratic primary for the US Senate.
Son John is born.
Attends the Paris Peace Conference. Works with the Red Cross to help American military troops in WW I.
Discovers the affair between Franklin Delano and Lucy Mercer. The affair ends, no divorce.
Volunteers at the International Congress of Working Women in Washington D.C as translator. There Eleanor meets WTUL activists Maud Schwartz and Rose Schneiderman for the first time.
Visits shell shocked World War I veterans at St. Elizabeth Hospital.
Grandmother Hall dies.
| Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline 1 Cook, B (1993). ER, Volume 1 1884 - 1933.
Adler, A, Casilla, R and Kaye, R (1997). Picture Book.
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