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| 1884 |
October 11: Eleanor Roosevelt is born in New York City. |
| 1892 |
 Elliott Roosevelt, Eleanor's father, is confined to a mental asylum; Eleanor's mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt, dies of diphtheria. |
| 1894 |
August 13: Elliot Roosevelt dies of alcoholism. |
| 1899 |
Eleanor enrolls at Allenswood School in England. |
| 1901 |
 President McKinley is assassinated six months after his second inauguration; Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, Eleanor's uncle, assumes the presidency. |
| 1902 |
Eleanor leaves Allenswood and makes her society debut at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. |
| 1903 |
Eleanor becomes engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth cousin once removed. She enrolls in the Junior League of New York where she teaches calisthenics and dancing to immigrants. She joins the Consumers' League and investigates working conditions in the garment districts. |
| 1905 |
 March 17: Eleanor marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York. |
| 1906 |
May 3: Eleanor gives birth to her first child, Anna. |
| 1907 |
December 23: Eleanor gives birth to her second child, James. |
| 1909 |
 March 18: Eleanor gives birth to her third child, Franklin, Jr. He dies of influenza soon after. |
| 1910 |
September 23: Eleanor has her fourth child, Elliott. |
