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1929 |
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier is born in Southampton, Long Island, on July 28.
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1951 |
Wins Vogue’s Prix de Paris writing contest. Introduced to Congressman John F. Kennedy.
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1952 |
Begins working as the “Inquiring Camera Girl” for the Washington Times Herald.
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1953 |
Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy are engaged on June 23, and married in Newport, Rhode Island, on September 12.
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1957 |
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is born on November 27.
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1960 |
John F. Kennedy defeats Richard M. Nixon in the presidential election. John F. Kennedy, Jr., is born on November 25.
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1961
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 JANUARY 20
John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the thirty-fifth president if the United States. Jacqueline Kennedy becomes the third-youngest first lady.
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FEBRUARY 23
Mrs. Kennedy announces the formation of the twelve-member Fine Arts Committee to develop restoration plans for the White House.
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MARCH 29
Lorraine Pearce is appointed the first curator of the White House at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy.
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MAY 31
President and Mrs. Kennedy arrive in Paris for a three-day official visit.
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 JUNE 3
Accompanied by the first lady, President Kennedy meets Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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 JUNE 4
The Kennedys dine with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace.
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SEPTEMBER 21
Congress approves a law making the White House a national monument.
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NOVEMBER 13
Following a state dinner for Puerto Rico governor Luis Muñoz Marin, Spanish cellist Pablo Casals performs at the White House.
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DECEMBER 15
The Kennedys embark on a series of state visits to Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Columbia.
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1962
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FEBRUARY 14
Mrs. Kennedy hosts a televised tour of the White House, for which she later receives a special Emmy award for public service from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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FEBRUARY 20
John H. Glenn Jr. becomes the first American astronaut to orbit the earth.
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 MARCH 11
Mrs. Kennedy stops in Rome for a private audience with Pope John XXIII en route to India and Pakistan for a semiofficial two-week visit.
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APRIL 29
The Kennedys host forty-nine Nobel prizewinners from the Western Hemisphere to a White House dinner held in their honor.
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SEPTEMBER 11
Mrs. Kennedy unveils Edward Durrell Stone’s model for the proposed National Cultural Center to be built in Washington, D.C.
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SEPTEMBER 28
President Kennedy orders U.S. military to enforce a court order to enroll James Meredith as the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi.
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OCTOBER 16—28
Cuban Missile Crisis
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NOVEMBER 30
Jacqueline Kennedy’s Asian Journey is released to movie theatres worldwide.
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DECEMBER 29
President and Mrs. Kennedy address Brigade 2506, which participated in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
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1963
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 JANUARY 8
The Mona Lisa is exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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JUNE 11
President Kennedy mobilizes the National Guard to enforce admission of black students to the University of Alabama.
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JUNE 24
President Kennedy visits the Berlin Wall and receives a hero’s welcome when he addresses a huge crowd afterward: “Ich bin ein Berliner.”
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AUGUST 7
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy is born prematurely, and dies two days later.
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AUGUST 28
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, and meets with President Kennedy in the Oval Office.
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AUGUST 30
The “hot line” between the Kremlin and the White House is established.
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OCTOBER 10
President Kennedy signs the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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NOVEMBER 22
President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
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NOVEMBER 25
John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Jacqueline Kennedy lights the eternal flame.
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1964 |
Jacqueline Kennedy and her children move to New York City.
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1968 |
Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis on the island of Skorpios.
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1975
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JANUARY
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis becomes involved in the fight to save New York City’s Grand Central Station from demolition.
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MARCH 15
Aristotle Onassis dies in Paris.
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1976 |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis begins her career as a literary editor.
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1979
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The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, designed by I. M. Pei, is dedicated on October 20 in Boston.
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1994
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis dies in New York City on May 19, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery four days later.
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