James Madison Timeline. A lifetime of events for the Fourth American President and Founding Father, both private and public. From his birth on March 16, 1751 in Port Conway, Virginia. To his death in Montpelier, Virginia on June 28, 1836.
DATE | JAMES MADISON TIMELINE OF EVENTS |
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1751 | James Madison was born on March 16 |
1765 | The Stamp Act |
1769 | Madison attends the College of New Jersey |
1773 | Boston Tea Party |
1774 | The First Continental Congress |
1775 | Lexington and Concord |
1776 | Lee Resolution |
Declaration of Independence | |
Madison attends the Virgnia Convention | |
1777 | Articles of Confederation |
1780 | Madison attends the Continental Congress |
1781 | Yorktown |
1784 | Madison is elected to the Virginia State Legislature |
1786 | Madison attends the Annapolis Convention |
1787 | Constitutional Convention |
Madison attends the Continental Congress | |
Madison attends the Continental Convention | |
1788 | The United States Constitution is ratified |
Madison writes letters for The Federalist | |
1789 | George Washington is elected the First U.S. President |
Madison is elected to the United States House of Representatives | |
The Bill of Rights | |
1794 | The Whiskey Rebellion |
Madison marries Dolley Todd | |
1796 | John Adams is elected President |
1798 | Alien and Sedition Acts |
Madison frames the Virginia Resolutions | |
Tripolitan War | |
1803 | Marbury Vs. Madison |
The Lousisiana Purchase | |
1807 | The Embargo Act is passed |
1808 | Madison is elected President |
1810 | Macon's Bill, number 2 |
West Florida is annexed | |
1812 | The War of 1812 |
Madison asks Congress for a sixty day embargo | |
The surendor of Detroit | |
The United States is defeated in Canada | |
James Madison is re-elected President | |
1813 | British Blockade |
1814 | The Creek War |
Madison asks Congress to end the embargo | |
Washington is burned | |
Hartford Convention | |
Treaty of Ghent | |
1815 | The Battle of New Orleans |
Madison vetos a bill for the 2nd United States Bank | |
1816 | The Second United States Bank is created |
James Monroe is elected President | |
<1817 | President James Madison retires to Montpelier |
1820 | The Missouri Compromise |
1826 | Madison becomes the rector of the University of Virginia |
Andrew Jackson is elected President | |
1829 | Madison is a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention |
1832 | Nulification Controversy |
1836 | The siege of the Alamo |
James Madison dies on June 28 in Montpelier, Va |
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"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny"
~ James Madison