| Timeline |
| 1890 |
Born 14 October |
| 1911 |
Enrolls at the United States Military Academy, West Point |
| 1915 |
Serves with the infantry until 1918 |
| 1916 |
Marries Mary "Mamie" Geneva Doud |
| 1917 |
Promoted to captain; son, Doud, born |
| 1918 |
Commanded 6,000 men at Tank Training Center at Camp Colt in Pennsylvania; lieutenant colonel (temporary rank) in Tank Corps |
| 1921 |
Son, Doud, dies |
| 1922 |
Executive officer, Camp Gaillard, Panama Canal Zone until 1924 |
| 1922 |
Son, Sheldon, born |
| 1928 |
Army War College |
| 1929 |
Assistant executive, Office of Assistant Secretary of War until 1933 |
| 1933 |
Army Industrial college |
| 1935 |
Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas |
| 1935 |
Major; assistant to General MacArthur in the Philippines |
| 1940 |
Returns to the United States; joined Fifteenth Infantry |
| 1941 |
Chief of staff, Third Army; brigadier general (temporary rank) |
| 1942 |
Chief, War Plans Division of War Department General Staff; assistant chief of staff in charge of Operations Division of War Department General Staff; major general (temporary rank); appointed commanding general, European Theatre of Operations; lieutenant general (temporary rank) in London for strategy discussions with British; appointed commander in chief of Allied forces in North Africa |
| 1943 |
Full general (temporary rank); directs invasions of Sicily and Italy; appointed supreme commander, Allied Expeditionary Force |
| 1944 |
Leads D-Day invasion of Normandy; General of the Army (temporary rank) |
| 1945 |
Accepts surrender of German Army at Rheims; commander of U.S. occupation forces in Europe; |
| 1948 |
Retired from active duty in the Army; Crusade in Europe published; appointed president of Columbia University; declines to run for the presidency of the United States |
| 1950 |
Granted indefinite leave of absence from Columbia University to serve as commander of NATO forces in Europe |
| 1952 |
Resigns from the Army; defeats Adlai Stevenson in presidential election |
| 1955 |
Eisenhower suffers first heart attack |
| 1956 |
Re-elected president |
| 1957 |
Civil Rights Act |
| 1963 |
The White House Years: Mandate for Change published |
| 1965 |
The White House Years: Waging Peace published |
| 1967 |
At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends published |
| 1969 |
Dies 28 March |
