| 1792/03/14 |
David Stuart (Virginia politician) |
Work |
Commissioners to lay out the new City, Daniel Carroll, David Stuart and Thomas Johnson advertise for plans for the Capitol and for the President's Palace, offering a premium of $500 or a medal of that value for the best designs submitted for examination. |
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| 1792/03/14 |
Gov Thomas Johnson |
Work |
Commissioners to lay out the new City, Daniel Carroll, David Stuart and Thomas Johnson advertise for plans for the Capitol and for the President's Palace, offering a premium of $500 or a medal of that value for the best designs submitted for examination. |
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| 1792/03/14 |
Daniel Carroll |
Work |
Commissioners to lay out the new City, Daniel Carroll, David Stuart and Thomas Johnson advertise for plans for the Capitol and for the President's Palace, offering a premium of $500 or a medal of that value for the best designs submitted for examination. |
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| 1793/09/18 |
George Washington |
US President |
George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building. |
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| 1793/09/18 |
Dr William Thornton |
Architect |
George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building. |
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| 1795/00/00 |
George Hadfield |
Supervisor |
George Hadfield supervises the construction of US Capitol from 1795 to 1798. |
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| 1797/00/00 |
Samuel Blodgett |
Architect |
Superintendent of Buildings for the new capital in Washington, DC |
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| 1798/09/23 |
James Hoban |
Supervisor |
Mr Hoban is made superintendent of work of construction on the United States Capitol. Hoban will design the interior of North Wing himself. |
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| 1800/00/00 |
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The Library of Congress began in 1800 with a small appropriation to buy reference books. Until 1897, the Library of Congress was housed in the U.S Capitol's west center building. |
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| 1801/03/04 |
John Marshall (Chief Justice) |
US Chief Justice |
Chief Justice John Marshall administers the oath of office to Thomas Jefferson. The Marine Band plays for the first time at the inauguration. Outgoing President John Adams did not attend the inaugural. |
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First Inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States |
| 1801/03/04 |
Thomas Jefferson |
US President |
Dressed plainly, Thomas Jefferson delivers a 1,721-word speech in the United States Capitol's Senate chamber. |
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First Inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States |
| 1803/03/00 |
Benjamin H Latrobe |
Architect |
Benjamin H Latrobe is hired as the Surveyor of Public Buildings by Thomas Jefferson, a position he held until 1811. He constructs the US Capitol South Wing. |
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| 1814/08/24 |
Major-General Robert Ross |
British General |
British troops set fire to US Capitol building. |
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Battle of Bladensburg |
| 1815/02/16 |
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The United States Senate unanimously ratifies the Treaty of Ghent. |
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Treaty of Gent |
| 1815/04/18 |
Benjamin H Latrobe |
Architect |
Benjamin Latrobe, Second Architect of the US Capitol 1815-1817 |
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| 1815/05/08 |
Thomas Jefferson |
Seller |
To replenish the book collection that was destroyed by the British during the War of 1812, Congress buys Thomas Jefferson's 6,487 volume library. Brought to the Capitol's west center building, the last wagon-load of books left Monticello 8 May 1815. |
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Battle of Bladensburg |
| 1818/00/00 |
Charles Bulfinch |
Architect |
Third Architect of the Capitol, 1818-1829, designed domed central portion of the US Capitol Building |
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| 1824/12/06 |
Col George E Mitchell |
US Representative |
On motion of George E Mitchell, it is resolved that a House committee to be appointed, to join such a committee as may be created by the Senate, to consider and report what respectful mode it may be proper for Congress to receive General Lafayette. |
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Lafayette's Triumphal Tour of America |
| 1838/00/00 |
Samuel F B Morse |
Owner |
Morse ask Smith for Congressional support to build a telegraph line. Smith offers to become Morse's counsel, and in 1838, he is given a quarter interest in the patent. Smith authors a bill for 30,000 dollars for a line between Washington and Baltimore. |
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Invention of the Telegraph |
| 1838/00/00 |
Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith |
Owner |
Morse ask Smith for Congressional support to build a telegraph line. Smith offers to become Morse's counsel, and in 1838, he is given a quarter interest in the patent. Smith authors a bill for 30,000 dollars for a line between Washington and Baltimore. |
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Invention of the Telegraph |
| 1848/12/05 |
James Knox Polk |
US President |
In his State of the Union, President Polk confirms the discovery of Gold in California, saying "the supply is very large and that gold is found at various places in an extensive district of country." |
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California Gold Rush |
| 1851/06/10 |
Thomas Ustick Walter |
Fourth Architect of the Capitol |
President Millard Fillmore approves Thomas U Walters design for new Senate and House wings |
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| 1861/02/13 |
John C Breckinridge |
US Vice President |
Vice President Breckinridge, presiding over the joint session of Congress that counted the electoral votes, announces that Abraham Lincoln has been elected President of the United States, defeating VP John C Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. |
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Election of President Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865/11/06 |
Henry Wirz |
Accused |
After more than 150 witnesses, including a man from his own prison staff, testify to Wirz's harsh treatment and punishment of Prisoners for minor violations. Henry Wirz is found guilty of War Crimes against Union troops imprisoned at Andersonville. |
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Andersonville Trial |
| 1865/11/06 |
Lew Wallace |
Presider of Military Tribunal |
After more than 150 witnesses, including a man from his own prison staff, testify to Wirz's harsh treatment and punishment of Prisoners for minor violations. Henry Wirz is found guilty of War Crimes against Union troops imprisoned at Andersonville. |
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Andersonville Trial |
| 1866/00/00 |
Thomas Ustick Walter |
Architect |
Thomas Walter's new dome for the United States Capitol is built from 1855-1866, design is based on St Isaac's Cathedral in St Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1907/00/00 |
Woodrow Wilson |
Work |
In the Princeton Alumni Weekly, Wilson introduces the Quad Plan which coordinates social and academic life by establishing residential colleges, or quadrangles, for all undergraduates instead of the current freshman and sophomore system. |
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| 1913/04/08 |
Edith Wilson |
Life |
Edith Galt watches from the House Gallery as President Wilson address a Joint Session of Congress on Tariff Reform. She can be seen in photos near the clock above the President. |
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Marriage of Edith Bolling Galt and Woodrow Wilson |
| 1921/11/10 |
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The Unknown Soldier lays in state in the Capitol Rotunda from his arrival in the United States until Armistice Day, 1921. |
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Establishing the Tomb of the Unknown US Soldier |
| 1931/02/10 |
Frederic Adrian Delano |
Vocation |
Frederic A Delano petitions Senator Hiram Bingham in Washington, DC, to be granted a hearing before the Senate Committee on appropriations for the District of Columbia for aid to mothers. |
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| 1939/06/08 |
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Britain's King George and Queen Elizabeth tour the US Capitol. The Queen cranes her neck to see the paintings in the Rotunda. |
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King George VI and Queen Elizabeth State Visit of Canada |
| 1941/03/17 |
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The House Committee on Military Affairs digest Public Law 503 in a one half hour session in which Col B M Bryan, chief of the Alien Division, is the only one to testify. |
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Internment of Americans with Foreign Enemy Ancestry |
| 1941/12/26 |
Winston Churchill |
Prime Minister |
Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, addresses US Congress. "I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British, instead of the other way round, I might have got here on my own." |
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Winston Churchill's Washington Conference |
| 1952/01/17 |
Winston Churchill |
UK Prime Minister |
Winston Churchill addresses the United States Congress in Washington. |
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| 1957/08/28 |
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J Strom Thurmond ends his 24 hours and 18 minute filibuster against the Civil Rights Act. "Mr President, I urge every Member of this body to consider this bill most carefully. I hope the Senate will see fit to kill it. I expect to vote against the bill." |
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| 1958/05/28 |
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Caskets of two unknown soldiers, one from World War II and one from the Korean Conflict, arrive in Washington and lay in State in the Capitol Rotunda until May 30. |
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Establishing the Tomb of the Unknown US Soldier |
| 1969/00/00 |
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Treasury Secretary Joseph Barr testified that in 1966, 155 high-income people paid zero income tax. Instead of eliminating the tax preferences that enabled these taxpayers to reduce their taxable income, Congress created a minimum tax. - taxfoundation.org |
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| 1984/05/27 |
Ronald Reagan |
US President |
Vietnam veterans and President and Mrs Ronald Reagan visit the Vietnam Unknown in the US Capitol. |
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Establishing the Tomb of the Unknown US Soldier |
| 1998/12/19 |
William Jefferson Clinton |
Sugar Daddy |
Impeachment of Bill Clinton is initiated by the House of Representatives on one charge of perjury and one charge of obstruction of justice. |
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