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ends, as British attempt his capture
1781 October
Battle of Yorktown
1782 September
Patty Jefferson dies
1782 December
Believing he is heading to Europe as a peace negotiator, Jefferson arrives in Philadelphia and lodges with Madison, who is courting young “Kitty” Floyd
1783 April
Jefferson returns to Virginia
1783 October
Jefferson travels north again, joining Congress (which has moved to Annapolis), as Madison completes his term
1783 December
Madison leaves Philadelphia for the first time in more than three years, returns to Montpelier
1784 April
Madison elected to Virginia House of Delegates
1784 July
Jefferson sails for France (from Boston)
1785 May
First, limited printing of
Notes on Virginia
1786 September
Madison attends Annapolis Convention
1787 January
Shays’s Rebellion takes place in western Massachusetts
1787 May
Madison attends Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
1788 June
Madison attends Virginia Ratifying Convention
1789 April
Madison defeats Monroe to win a seat in the first Congress of the United States; inauguration of George Washington
1789 July
French Revolution begins
1789 October
Jefferson departs France for home
1790 January
Hamilton’s
Report on Public Credit
proposes assumption of state debts, infuriating Madison
1790 March
Jefferson arrives in New York, assumes duties as secretary of state
1791
First signs of coming revolution in St. Domingue (Haiti)
1791 May
Madison tells Jefferson he considers the national bank conclusive proof of Hamilton’s usurpation of power
1791 May–June
Madison and Jefferson tour New York and western New England
1791 October
Philip Freneau’s
National Gazette
begins operation
1792 April
Madison writes scathing article, “The Union: Who Are Its Real Friends?”
1792 May
Hamilton writes Virginian Edward Carrington, offering an interpretation of Madison’s defection and Jefferson’s lust for power
1792 July
Hamilton reopens newspaper attacks aimed principally at Jefferson
1792 September
Madison authors “A Candid State of Parties”
1793 April
America learns England and France are at war; Genet arrives in the United States
1793 June
Hamilton begins publishing “Pacificus” letters
1793 August
Madison responds with his first “Helvidius” letter
1794 January
Jefferson resigns from cabinet and retires to Monticello
1794 September
Madison marries the widow Dolley Payne Todd; Hamilton and Washington overreact to Whiskey Rebellion
1795 June
Senate approves Jay Treaty
1795 August
Edmund Randolph resigns from cabinet, authors self-vindication
1796 April
Madison gives up protesting House exclusion from treaty-making, and Jay Treaty is implemented
1797 March
John Adams inaugurated as second president, Jefferson becomes vice president
1797 May
Jefferson’s Mazzei letter of April 1796 translated and published, angering Washington
1798 April
News of XYZ Affair widely disseminated, war fever develops
1798 July
Alien and Sedition Acts passed
1798 September
Jefferson covertly authors Kentucky Resolutions
1798 December
Madison’s Virginia Resolutions approved by state assembly
1799 December
Washington dies
1800 September
Gabriel’s Rebellion (in vicinity of Richmond) foiled
1800 December
Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied, election moved to House of Representatives
1801 February
James Madison, Sr., dies
1801 March
Jefferson inaugurated as third president
1802 September
Callender publishes articles linking Jefferson and Sally Hemings
1803
Louisiana Purchase
1804 April
Death of Maria Jefferson Eppes
1804 May
Lewis and Clark expedition gets under way (from St. Louis)
1804 July
Burr kills Hamilton in duel
1804
Jefferson easily reelected, George Clinton of New York as vice president
1805 March
Impeachment trial of Justice Samuel Chase ends in acquittal
1807 May
Treason trial of Aaron Burr begins in Richmond
1807 June
Chesapeake
incident, Royal Navy fires on U.S. ship near Norfolk
1807 December
Embargo approved by Congress
1808 January
Further importation of slaves prohibited by