Timeline

1. 1858

   October 27

   Theodore Roosevelt Jr., is born in New York City to Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt.

2. 1869

   May 1869-March 1870

   T. R. travels to Europe for the first time with his family.

3. 1870

   T. R. begins to work out in a gym to improve his health and frequent asthma attacks.

4. 1872

   T. R.'s family travels to Egypt and the Holy Land.

5. 1873

   T. R. is sent to live with a German family in Dresden to learn German for five months with brother Elliott and sister Corinne.

6. 1876

   September

   T. R. begins attending Harvard College.

7. 1878

   February 9

   T. R.'s father dies.

   October 18

   T. R. meets Alice Hathaway Lee, who will later become his first wife.