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• Born at Waxhaw settlement, South Carolina


• Attends Waxhaw Academy schools conducted by:
  Dr. William Humphries and James White Stephenson


• Serves in American Revolution;
• Captured and wounded by British officer;
  Imprisoned in Camden and later released;
  Contracts Smallpox


• Death of mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson


• Attends school conducted by Robert McCulloch


• Teaches school in Waxhaw


• Moves to Salisbury, North Carolina;
  Reads law with Spruce McCay


• Reads law with John Stokes


• Licensed as an attorney in North Carolina;
  Practices law and tends store


• Appointed public prosecutor for western district of North Carolina and migrates west;
  Fights first duel with Waightstill Avery;
  Settles in Nashville, TN;
  Meets Rachel Donelson Robards


• Married to Rachel Donelson Robards
  (for the first time, if they actually married at all)




Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson

• Appointed Attorney General for the Mero District


• Remarried to Rachel Donelson Robards


• Participates in Tennessee Constitutional Convention



• Elected to United States House of Representatives


• Elected to United States Senate


• Resigns Senate seat


• Elected judge of Tennessee Superior Court


• Elected Major General of Tennessee Militia


• Forms business partnership with John Coffee
  and John Hutchings


• Resigns as Judge


• Purchases "The Hermitage" property


• Participates in Aaron Burr Conspiracy


• Kills Charles Dickinson


• Adopts son of Elizabeth and Severn Donelson


• Leads troops against Indians and British Armies
  in the War of 1812


• Nicknamed “Old Hickory”


• Gunfight with the Bentons


• “Adopts” Lyncoya


• Defeats Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend


• Imposes Treaty of Fort Jackson on Creek Nation


• Captures Pensacola, FL


• Arrives in New Orleans


• Defeats British advance toward New Orleans


• Fined for contempt of Court


• Signs treaties with Indian tribes


• Invades Spanish Florida in the First Seminole War


• Captures St. Marks, FL


• Orders executions of Robert Ambrister
  and Alexander Arbuthnot


• Captures Pensacola


• Congressional censure rejected


• Appointed and confirmed Governor of Florida Territory


• Resigns Army commission


• Receives Florida from Spanish


• Resigns as Florida Governor


• Nominated for United States President
  by Tennessee Legislature


• Elected United States Senator


• Builds church on The Hermitage property


• Defeated for United States President in House election


• Accuses Clay of “corrupt bargain”


• Entertains the Marquis de Lafayette at The Hermitage


• Resigns Senate seat


• Nominated for President of the United States
  by Tennessee Legislature


• Death of Lyncoya


• Elected President of the United States of America


• Death of Rachel Robards Jackson


• Inaugurated 7th President of the United States


• Attends Thomas Jefferson's Birthday dinner


• Vetoes Maysville Road Bill


• Signs Indian Removal Bill


• Exercises first pocket veto


• Assists establishment of Washington Globe


• Reopens American ports to British West Indian trade


• Accepts cabinet resignations and appoints new cabinet


• Operated on for removal of bullet


• Van Buren’s nomination as minister rejected


• Accused of maintaining a “Kitchen Cabinet”


• Vetoes Bank Bill


• Signs Tariff of 1832


• Re-elected President of the United States


• Issues Proclamation to people of South Carolina


• Signs Force Bill and Compromise Tariff


• Pocket vetoes Distribution Bill


• Inaugurated for Second Term as President


• Assaulted by Robert B. Randolph


• Tours New England and Middle Atlantic states


• Dismisses Duane


• Censured by Senate


• Protests Censure


• Threatens action against France


• Signs Coinage Act


• Hermitage burns


• Announces the nation to be free of debt


• Escapes assassination attempt


• Refuses to apologize to France


• Second Seminole War begins


• Nominates Taney as chief justice


• Crisis with France resolved


• Signs Deposit bill


• Signs Post Office bill


• Issues Specie Circular


• Rebuilding of The Hermitage completed


• Suffers severe hemorrhage attack


• Senate censure expunged


• Recognizes Texas’ independence


• Issues Farewell Address


• Leaves White House for The Hermitage


• Joins Presbyterian Church


• Attends silver jubilee of victory at New Orleans


• Writes Last Will and Testament


• Restitution of New Orleans fine authorized by Congress


• Endorses James K. Polk for President


• Urges Texas’ annexation


• Andrew Jackson suffers massive edema


• Andrew Jackson dies at The Hermitage


• Andrew Jackson is buried in The Hermitage garden

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