James Madison
President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
9 dated entries naming James Madison, drawn from 8 separate years between 1751 CE and 1859 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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18th century
- 1751March 16 – James Madison, fourth President of the United States (d. 1836)source
- 1780August 29 – Richard Rush, United States Attorney General under James Madison, United States Secretary of the Treasury under President John Quincy Adams (d. 1859)source
- 1790June 20 – Compromise of 1790: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton come to an agreement: Madison agrees to not be "strenuous" in opposition for the assumption of state debts by the federal government; Hamilton agrees to support the capital site being above the Potomac.source
19th century
- 1808November 8 – 1808 United States presidential election: James Madison defeats Charles C. Pinckney, winning 122 electoral votes to Pinckney's 47. Ten of the 17 states choose their electors by popular vote; the rest choose through state legislatures. George Clinton, who is separately elected as vice president, gets six electoral votes for president.source
- 1812April 4 – U.S. President James Madison enacts a 90-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.source
- 1812November 5 – 1812 United States presidential election: James Madison defeats DeWitt Clinton.source
- 1815March 1 – Georgetown University's congressional charter is signed into law, by President James Madison.source
- 1817March 3 – On his last day in office, U.S. President James Madison vetoes John C. Calhoun's Bonus Bill as unconstitutional after it has passed both houses of the U.S. Congress. Stephen Minicucci, Internal Improvements and the Union, 1790–1860, Studies in American Political Development (2004), 18: p.160-185, (2004), Cambridge University Presssource
- 1859July 30 – Richard Rush, United States Attorney General under James Madison, United States Secretary of the Treasury under President John Quincy Adams (b. 1780)source