Jackson refusing to polish British officer's boots

1775-1780: Attends schools conducted by Dr. William Humphries and James White Stephenson.

1780-1781: Serves in American Revolution; captured and wounded by British officer; imprisoned in Camden and later released; contracts smallpox.

1781: Death of mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson.

1782: Attends school conducted by Robert McColluch

1783-1784: Teaches school in Waxhaws.

1784-1786: Moves to Salisbury, North Carolina, and reads law with Spruce McCay.

1786-1787: Reads Law with John Stokes.

1787, September 26: Licensed as an attorney in North Carolina; practices laws and tends store.

1788: Appointed public prosecutor for Western District of North Carolina and migrates west; fights first duel with Waightsill Avery; settles in Nashville.

1790-1791: Supposedly marries Rachel Donelson Robards in Natchez.

1791, February 15: Appointed Attorney General for the Mero District

1794, January 18 : Remarries Rachel Donelson Robards in Nashville.

1796, Jan.-Feb.: Participates in Tennessee Constitutional Convention.

1796, October 22: Elected to U.S. House of Representatives.

1797, September 26: Elected to U.S. Senate.

1798: Resigns Senate seat.

1798, December 20: Elected Judge of Tennessee Superior Court.

1802, February 5: Elected Major General of Tennessee Militia.

1804, April: Forms business partnership with John Coffee and John Hutchings.

1804, July 4: Purchases The Hermitage.

1804, July 24: Resigns as judge.

1805-1807: Participates in Burr Conspiracy.

1806, May 30: Kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.

1809: Adopts son of Elizabeth and Severn Donelson naming him Andrew Jackson, Jr.

1812-1815: Leads troops against Indians and British.

1813, March: Nicknamed Old Hickory.

1813, September 4: Wounded in gunfight with Jesse and Thomas Hart Benton.

1813, November 3: Adopts Creek Indian named “Lyncoya.”

1814, March 17: Defeats Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

1814, August 9: Imposes Treaty of Fort Jackson on the Creek Nation.

1814, November 17: Captures Pensacola from Spanish.

1814, December 1: Arrives in New Orleans.

After the victory at New Orleans

1815, March 31: Fined for contempt of court.

1816-1818: Signs treaties with Indian tribes.

1818, March 15: Invades Spanish Florida.

1818, April 6: Captures St. Marks.

1818, April 29: Orders execution of Robert Ambrister and Alexander Arbuthnot.

1818, May 24: Captures Pensacola.

1819, February 28: Congressional censure for invasion of Florida rejected.

1821: Brick Hermitage mansion completed.

1821: Appointed and confirmed governor of Florida Territory.

1821, June 1 : Resigns army commission.

1821, July 17: Receives Florida from Spanish.

1821, November 13: Resigns as Florida governor.

1822, July 20: Nominated for President by Tennessee Legislature.

1823, October 1: Elected U.S. Senator.

1823-1824: Donates funds and land for the Hermitage Church.

1825, February 9: Defeated for President in House Election.

1825, February 14: Accuses Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams of corrupt
bargain to win the presidency in House election.

1825, May 5: Entertains Lafayette at The Hermitage.

1825, October 12: Resigns Senate seat.

1825, October 14: Nominated for President by Tennessee Legislature.

1828, June 1: Death of Lyncoya.

1828, November : Elected President.

1828, December 22: Death of Rachel Jackson.

1829, March 4: Inaugurated seventh President.

1830, April 13: Attends Jefferson birthday dinner and makes toast“Our federal union, it must be preserved."

1830, May 27: Vetoes Maysville Road bill.

1830, May 28: Signs Indian Removal bill.

1830, June : Exercises first pocket veto.

1830, October: Assists in establishment of Washington Globe.

1830, October 5: Reopens American ports to British West Indian trade.

1831, April: Accepts cabinet resignations and appoints new cabinet.

1831, November 24: Andrew Jackson, Jr. and Sarah Yorke marry.

1832, January: Operated on to remove bullet from Benton gunfight.

1832, March 27: Accused of maintaining a “Kitchen Cabinet”.

1832, July 10: Vetoes recharter of Second U.S. Bank.

1832, July 14: Signs Tariff of 1832.

1832, November 1: Granddaughter Rachel Jackson born.

1832, November: Reelected President.

1832, December 10: Issues Proclamation to the people of South Carolina on Nullification.

1833, March 2: Signs Force Bill and Compromise Tariff resolving Nullification Crisis in South Carolina.

1833, March 4: Pocket vetoes Distribution Bill.

1833, March 4: Inaugurated for second term.

1833, May 6: Injured in assault by Robert B. Randolph.

1833, June-July: Tours New England and Middle Atlantic states.

1833, September 23: Dismisses Treasury Secretary William J. Duane for refusal to remove deposits from Second U.S. Bank. Censured by Senate for
actions against Bank.

1834, March 28: Censured by Senate.

1834, April 4: Grandson, Andrew Jackson III, is born.

1834, April 15: Protests censure by Senate.

1834, May: Threatens action against France.

1834, June 30: Signs Coinage Act.

1834, October 13: Hermitage mansion damaged by fire.

1835, January: Announces nation is free of debt.

A print of the attempted assasination

1835, May 29: Refuses to apologize to France for threats.

1835, December 18: Second Seminole War begins.

1835, December 28: Nominates Roger B. Taney for Chief Justice.

1836, February: Crisis with France resolved.

1836, June 23: Signs Deposit Bill.

1836, July 2: Signs Post Office Bill.

1836, July 11: Issues Specie Circular.

1836, August 2: Hermitage rebuilding completed.

1836, November 19: Suffers severe hemorrhage attack.

1837, January 16: Senate censure expunged from records.

1837, March 3: Recognizes Texas' independence.

1837, March 4: Issues Farewell Address

Andrew Jackson at The Hermitage

1837, June 9: Grandson Samuel Jackson, born.

1838, July 15: Joins Presbyterian Church.

1840, January 8: Attends Silver Jubilee of victory at New Orleans.

1842, September 1: Writes Last Will and Testament

1843, February 14: Restitution of New Orleans fine authorized by Congress.

1844, May 13: Endorses James K. Polk for President.

1844, December: Urges the annexation of Texas.

1845, May: Suffers massive edema.

1845, June 8: Dies at The Hermitage.

1845, June 10: Buried under Tomb next to wife Rachel in the Hermitage garden.

This timeline comes from Robert V. Remini’s The Life of Andrew Jackson, 1988.