| Timeline |
| 1767 |
Born 15 March |
| 1780 |
Joins the Continental Army as a courier |
| 1781 |
Jackson captured by the British |
| 1785 |
Studies law with Mr. Spruce McCay in Salisbury, North Carolina |
| 1787 |
Jackson admitted to the bar |
| 1788 |
Jackson settles in Tennessee |
| 1792 |
Believing she is divorced, Jackson marries Rachel Donelson Robards |
| 1794 |
Re-marries Rachel upon finding out that her divorce had not been finalized as they had previously thought |
| 1795 |
Duel with fellow lawyer Avery |
| 1796 |
Tennessee's first Congressman |
| 1797 |
Elected Senator (resigns within the year) |
| 1798 |
Appointed judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court |
| 1801 |
Joins the Tennessee militia |
| 1806 |
Duel with Charles Dickinson - Dickinson is killed |
| 1808 |
Andrew and Rachel adopt Andrew Jackson - the son of Severn and Elizabeth Rucker Donelson |
| 1812 |
Commands in the Creek War and War of 1812 |
| 1813 |
Andrew and Rachel adopt Lyncoya, a Creek Indian orphan |
| 1813 |
Duel with Thomas H. Benton |
| 1817 |
Commands in 1st Seminole War in Florida, is named territorial governor after Florida is ceded by Spain |
| 1824 |
Runs for president, receiving a plurality of both the popular and electoral votes (but not a majority), the House of Representatives choses J.Q. Adams |
| 1828 |
Elected President; wife, Rachel, dies two weeks after election; beginning of the "nullification crisis" |
| 1830 |
Indian Removal Act |
| 1832 |
Jackson re-elected; vetoed renewal of Second Bank of the United States |
| 1833 |
Signed Force Bill |
| 1836 |
Executive Order: Specie Circular |
| 1845 |
Dies 8 June |
