Woodrow Wilson Events

1856 Dec 28 Thomas Woodrow Wilson Is Born
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia. The twenty-eighth president of the United States, Wilson served two consecutive terms in the White House, from...
1879 Woodrow Wilson attends University of Virginia
In 1879, Wilson attended law school at University of Virginia for one year. Although he never graduated, during his time at the University he was heavily involved in the Virginia Glee Clu...
1902 Jun 9 Woodrow Wilson Elected President Of Princeton University
On June 9, 1902, Woodrow Wilson was unanimously elected president of Princeton University, a position he held until he resigned in 1910 to run for governor of New Jersey. As university pr...
1913 Mar 4 First Inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as 28th US President
Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address THERE has been a change of government. It began two years ago, when the House of Representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It ...
1913 Mar 17 Franklin D. Roosevelt Sworn in as Assistant Secretary of Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by Woodrow Wilson in 1913. He served under Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. In 1914, he was defeated in the Demo...
1913 Dec 23 President Woodrow Wilson Signs The Owen-Glass Act
On December 23, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Owen-Glass Act, creating the Federal Reserve System. The first major banking reform to follow the Civil War, the Federal Reser...
1914 May 9 The First Mother's Day
President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation on May 9, 1914, asking Americans to give a public expression of reverence to mothers through the celebration of Mother's Day. Carnations hav...
1915 Jul
to 1934 Aug
United States Occupation of Haiti
In an effort to limit German influence, in 1910-11 the State Department backed a consortium of American investors, assembled by the National City Bank of New York, in acquiring control of...
1915 Jul 28 United States Begins Occupation of Haiti
American President Woodrow Wilson sent 330 U.S. Marines to Port-au-Prince on July 28, 1915. The specific order from the Secretary of the Navy to the invasion commander, Admiral William De...
1917 Feb 26 President Wilson Asks Congress to Establish a State of Armed Neutrality
The Germans, while continuing to sink defenceless American vessels, still moved with a degree of caution after the severance of diplomatic relations. True, they had sunk the American frei...
1917 Mar 5 Woodrow Wilson's second inauguration
March 4 was a Sunday, but the President took the oath of office at the Capitol in the President's Room that morning. The oath was taken again the next day, administered by Chief Justice ...
1917 Apr 2 President Woodrow Wilson Delivers War Message to Congress
Gentlemen of the Congress: I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it ...
1917 Aug 28 Ten suffragists Are Arrested As They Picket The White House
Ten suffragists were arrested on August 28, 1917, as they picketed the White House. The protesters were there in an effort to pressure President Woodrow Wilson to support the proposed "An...
1919 President Woodrow Wilson Wins Nobel Peace Prize
"In accepting the honor of your award I am moved not only by a profound gratitude for the recognition of my [sincere and] earnest efforts in the cause of peace, but also by a very poignant..." —Woodrow Wilson
1919 Jan 18
to 1920 Jan 21
 Paris Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors in World War I to set the peace terms for Germany and other defeated nations, and to deal with the empires of the defeated...
1920 Aug 18 The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is Ratified
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. " —19th Amendment