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...