Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
16 dated entries naming Thomas Jefferson, drawn from 14 separate years between 1730 CE and 1976 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
- 1730December 25 – Filippo Mazzei, Italian physician, friend of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1816)source
- 1770February 1 – Thomas Jefferson's home at Shadwell, Virginia is destroyed by fire, along with most of his books.source
- 1782September 6 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)source
- 1785April 26 – John Adams is appointed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, and Thomas Jefferson as ambassador to France.source
- 1785March 10 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the new U.S. Minister to France, and Benjamin Franklin's request for permission to return home is accepted.source
- 1789Thomas Jefferson returns from Europe, bringing the first macaroni machine to the United States.source
- 1790March 21 – Thomas Jefferson reports to President George Washington in New York, as the new United States Secretary of State.source
- 1796November 3 – John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson, in the 1796 U.S. presidential election.source
- 1800December 3 – The 1800 United States presidential election: The Electoral College casts votes for president and Vice President that result in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, requiring a contingent election which will select Jefferson as president.source
19th century
- 1801February 17 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved, when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.source
- 1804December 3 – Thomas Jefferson defeats Charles C. Pinckney in the United States presidential election.source
- 1816March 19 – Filippo Mazzei, Italian physician, friend of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1730)source
- 1819January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia.source
- 1826July 4 – Former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.source
- 1826July 4 – Thomas Jefferson, 83, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743), at 12:50 p.m. at his home near Charlottesville, Virginia.source