| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1850/07/04 | Seeking relief from the stifling heat and humidity during a fund-raising event at the Washington Monument, Zachery Taylor drinks a pitcher of iced milk and eats a bowl of cherries. | Washington Monument, Washington, DC |
| 1850/07/04 | President Taylor is beset with stomach cramps and becomes seriously ill. | |
| 1850/07/07 | President Zachary Taylor's physician, assisted by a Baltimore quack, applies heroic medicine by drugging the president with ipecac, calomel, opium and quinine (at 40 grains a dose) and bleeding and blistering him. | The White House, Washington, DC |
| 1850/07/09 | After suffering from symptoms that include severe cramping, diarrhea, nausea and dehydration, President Zachary Taylor dies at the White House. | |
| 1850/07/13 | President Taylor's funeral is conducted in the East Room. The coffin is placed in an elaborate black and white funeral car surmounted by a great eagle. | White House East Room, The White House |
| 1850/07/13 | 100,000 people line Taylor's funeral route to view the 2 mile long procession led by his hearse, followed by military units, Taylor's horse 'Old Whitey', the President's family, military units, officials and common citizens. | |
| 1850/07/13 | Zachary Taylor's body is temporarily interned at the Public Vault at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC. | Public Vault, Congressional Cemetery, DC, Congressional Cemetery |
| 1850/10/25 | Zachary Taylor's mortal remains are removed from Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC. | |
| 1850/11/01 | The remains of Zachary Taylor are buried at the Taylor family burial ground. | Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, St Matthews |
| 1991/06/17 | Researchers exhume the body of Zachary Taylor in the quest to determined if he was poisoned due to his opposition to extending slavery into the Western territories. | Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, St Matthews |
| 1991/06/21 | Scientists irradiate samples of Zachary Taylor in an uranium-fueled reactor. The results will show traces of arsenic in hair, bone and tissues from Taylor's remains. But they appear to be naturally occurring and too low in dosage to be lethal. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge |
| 1991/06/26 | Kentuckys chief medical examiner, George Nichols, reports that Taylor's death was a result of any of "a myriad of natural diseases which could have produced the symptoms of gastroenteritis." |
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