1858 - 1879
1858
October 27
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., is born in New York City to Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt.
1869
May 1869-March 1870
T. R. travels to Europe for the first time with his family.
1870
T. R. begins to work out in a gym to improve his health and frequent asthma attacks.
1872
T. R.'s family travels to Egypt and the Holy Land.
1873
T. R. is sent to live with a German family in Dresden to learn German for five months with brother Elliott and sister Corinne.
1876
September
T. R. begins attending Harvard College.
1878
February 9
T. R.'s father dies.
October 18
T. R. meets Alice Hathaway Lee, who will later become his first wife.