1758 – April 28, born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on the Northern Neck
1774-76 – Attended William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
1776 – Joined the Continental Army’s Third Virginia Infantry Regiment
1776 – December 26, wounded at the Battle of Trenton
1778 – December, wintered at Valley Forge,
1778 – June 28, fought at the Battle of Monmouth
1779 – January, resigned from the Continental Army; received appointment to lieutenant colonel by Virginia legislature
1780 – Studied law under Governor Thomas Jefferson in Richmond
1782 – Member of Virginia House of Delegates
1783-86 – Delegate to Confederation Congress
1786 – February 16, married Elizabeth Kortright; practiced law in Fredericksburg; November or December, birth of Eliza
1787-89 – Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
1788 – Member of Virginia Convention to ratify the U. S. Constitution; purchased farmland in Albemarle, Virginia
1790-94 – Served as United States Senator from Virginia
1793 – Purchased “Highland” property adjacent to Jefferson’s Monticello
1794-96 – Minister to France for President George Washington
1799 – May, birth of James Spence; November 23, family moved to Highland
1799-1802 – Served as Governor of Virginia for three consecutive one-year terms
1800 – September 28, death of James Spence; Gabriel’s Rebellion
1802 – Birth of Maria Hester
1803 – Envoy to France to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase
1803-07 – Minister to England and Spain for President Jefferson
1804 – December, arrived in Spain to negotiate the purchase of Florida
1808 – September, marriage of Eliza to George Hay at Highland
1810-11 – Served as a member of Virginia House of Delegates
1811 – January to April, served as Governor of Virginia
1811-17 – Beginning in April 1811, served as Secretary of State for President James Madison
1814-15 – September 1814 to March 1815, served as Secretary of War for President Madison
1817 – October 17, laid cornerstone of Pavilion VII, the University of Virginia’s first structure
1817-25 – Served as President of the United States; his presidency became known as the “Era of Good Feelings”
1820 – March 9, marriage of Maria Hester in the White House
1823 – December 2, delivered speech known as the “Monroe Doctrine” in his address to Congress, declared as the first U.S. foreign policy
1826-31 – Served as a member of Board of Visitors, University of Virginia
1828 – Sold Highland to the Bank of the United States
1829 – President of the Virginia Constitutional Convention
1830 – September 23, death of Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
1831 – July 4, death of James Monroe in New York City
1858 – James Monroe’s body re-interred at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
