John Tyler
American
Lineage
- Daughter: Julia Tyler Spencer
- Son: Lyon Gardiner Tyler
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Significant name | Woodburn | Charles City, VA | |||||
| Significant name | Greenway | Charles City, VA | |||||
| 1802/00/00 | At the age of twelve, John Tyler enters the preparatory branch of the College of William and Mary. Master Tyler lives with his uncle, James Semple. | Home | James Semple House | Williamsburg | |||
| 1841/04/04 | Tyler is sworn in the nation's 10th vice president in the Senate chamber, and delivers a 3-minute speech about states' rights before swearing in the new senators and attending President Harrison's inauguration outside on Capitol's east portico. | US Vice President | Old Senate Chamber | United States Capitol | |||
| 1841/04/05 | At sunrise, State Department chief clerk Fletcher Webster and Senate assistant doorkeeper Robert Beale, deliver a letter from the cabinet reporting that President Harrison had died of pneumonia the previous day. | US Vice President | Death of US President William Harrison | ||||
| 1841/04/06 | John Tyler takes the US Presidential Oath of Office, moves into the White House, and assumes full presidential powers, a precedent that would govern future extraordinary successions and eventually become codified in the Twenty-fifth Amendment. | US President | White House Executive Residence | The White House | Death of US President William Harrison | ||
| 1842/00/00 | John Tyler buys the 1,200-acre plantation when he was still serving as 10th president of the United States. Tyler used Sherwood Forest as his retirement home from 1845 until his death in 1862. | Home | John Tyler House | Charles City, VA | |||
| 1844/04/13 | Using electric current, Samuel Colt demonstrates the effectiveness of his underwater electric mine to President John Tyler and his cabinet by blowing up a schooner on the Potomac River off the Washington Navy Yard. | Witness | Washington Navy Yard | Washington, DC | |||
| 1862/01/21 | John Tyler lays in state at the Virginia State Capitol. | In Memoriam | Virginia State Capitol | Richmond |
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