1860 | Born in Cedarville, Illinois |
1877 | Enters Rockford Female Seminary |
1881 | Graduates from Rockford |
1888 | Visits Toynbee Hall in London, England |
1889 | Founds Hull-House, a social settlement in Chicago, with Ellen Gates Starr |
1894 | Helps found Chicago Federation of Settlements |
1895 | Becomes garbage inspector for 19th Ward, Near West Side |
1903 | Becomes vice president of National Woman's Trade Union League |
1905-08 | Serves as member of Chicago Board of Education |
1909 | Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Elected 1st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later National Conference of Social Work) |
1910 | Mediator in Chicago Garment Worker's Strike |
| Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House |
1911-14 | 1st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association |
| 1st head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers |
1912 | Seconds Theodore Roosevelt's nomination at Progressive Party convention |
1913 | Attends Conference and Congress of International Woman's Suffrage Alliance, Budapest, Hungary |
1915 | Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected 1st Chairman |
| Presides at International Congress of Women at The Hague, Netherlands |
1919 | Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, serves as President 1919-29 |
1920 | Helps found the American Civil Liberties Union |
1928 | Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific Women's Union in Hawaii |
1931 | 1st American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize |
1935 | Dies in hospital in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois |