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1856: Born in Virginia; family moves to Georgia the following year
1882: Opens law office in Atlanta, Georgia
1883: Enrolls at Johns Hopkins University to prepare for a career as an academician
1885: Publishes first book, Congressional Government ; begins teaching at Bryn Mawr College
1888-89: Teaches at Wesleyan College; publishes second book, The State
1890: Takes academic position at Princeton University
1893: Publishes book about the Civil War, Division and Reunion
1902-10: Serves as president of Princeton
1911-13: Serves as governor of New Jersey
1912: Defeats incumbent president William Howard Taft and former president Theodore Roosevelt in three-party presidential race
1913-21: Serves as twenty-eighth U.S. president
1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated, beginning a series of events that results in World War I; first lady Ellen Wilson dies
1915: United States remains neutral in the war despite the loss of one hundred Americans in the German torpedoing of British ocean...
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