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CHRONOLOGY OF JEFFERSON DAVIS
1808 June 3 Bom Christian County, Kentucky, tenth and last child of Samuel	and Jane	Cook	Davis.
1811	Family moved to Saint Mary?s Parish, Louisiana.
1812	Family moved to Wilkinson County, Mississippi Territory.
1816	Entered Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dominican school, near Springfield, Washington County,
Kentucky.
1818	Attended Jefferson College at Washington, Adams County, Mississippi and later Wilkinson
Academy.
1821	Entered Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky.
1824	Entered United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
1828	Graduated from the United States Military Academy.
1828-1835	Served in United States Army at Fort Crawford, Fort Winnebago, and Fort Gibson.
Participated in Black Hawk War.
1835	June 17	Married Sarah Knox Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.
June 30	Effective date of resignation from the Army.
Sept. 15	Sarah Knox died from malarial fever. Visited Havana, New York and Washington City.
1836	Became cotton planter in Warren County, Mississippi.
1843	Defeated as Democratic candidate for State Legislature.
1845	Feb. 26	Married Varina Howell in Natchez, Mississippi.
Nov.	Elected to the United States House of Representatives.
1846	June	Resigned from the House to command the Mississippi Rifles in the Mexican War.
1847	Feb. 22	Wounded at Buena Vista.
Aug. 10	Appointed to fill vacant seat in the United States Senate.
1851	Resigned from Senate to run for Governor of Mississippi; defeated by Senator Henry S. Foote.
1852	Campaigned for Franklin Pierce for President.
1853	Mar. 7	Became Secretary of War under President Pierce.
1857	Mar. 4	Returned to the United States Senate by Mississippi.
1858	Spoke in Faneuil Hall, Boston, urging devotion to the Union and obedience to the Constitution.
1861	Jan. 21	Announced secession of Mississippi, delivered farewell address and resigned from
the Senate.
Feb. 9	Elected Provisional President of the Confederate States convened in Montgomery, Alabama.
Feb. 18	Inaugurated in Montgomery.
May 29	Moved to Richmond.
Oct. 16	Elected President of the Confederate States.
1862	Feb. 22	Inaugurated President of the Confederate States of America.
1865	April 2	Davis and Confederate cabinet left Richmond for Danville.
April 9	Lee surrendered at Appomattox, ending the Confederacy; Davis fled southward with his
family and cabinet.
May 10	Captured and taken prisoner at Irwinville, Georgia.
May 22	Confined to prison at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
1867	May 13	Released on bail from prison.
1869 Feb. 15	United States Government drops all charges. Became President of Carolina Insurance
Company in Memphis, Tennessee.
1881	Completed Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.
1889	Completed A Short History of the Confederate States.
Dec. 6	Died at New Orleans.
Dec. 11	Buried in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans.
1893	May 11	Reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
1978	Oct. 17	Full citizenship restored posthumously by joint resolution of Congress.