| Timeline |
| 1800 |
Born 7 January |
| 1815 |
Apprenticed to a fuller to learn the clothmaking trade |
| 1819 |
Buys the remainder of time from his master and begins to study law |
| 1820 |
Moves to Buffalo and teaches school and assists the post-master |
| 1823 |
Admitted to the bar |
| 1826 |
Marries Abigail Powers |
| 1828 |
Elected to the New York legislature; son, Millard, born |
| 1829 |
Counsellor of the supreme court of the state |
| 1832 |
Daughter, Mary, born |
| 1833 |
Elected as a Whig to the 23rd Congress |
| 1837 |
Elected to the 25th, 26th and 27th Congresses (1837-1843) |
| 1844 |
Unsuccessfully runs for governor of New York |
| 1846 |
Helps found the University of Buffalo, he is the first Chancellor |
| 1847 |
Elected state comptroller of New York until 1849 |
| 1848 |
Selected as Zachary Taylor's running mate |
| 1850 |
President Taylor dies, Fillmore takes the oath and supports the Fugitave Slave Act |
| 1852 |
Fillmore is an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for the presidency by the Whig National Convention |
| 1853 |
Wife, Abigail, dies |
| 1856 |
Accepts the nomination for President of the Know Nothing (or National American) Party |
| 1858 |
Marries Caroline Carmichael McIntosh |
| 1861 |
Commands a corps of home guards during the Civil War |
| 1874 |
Dies 8 March |
