Detailed Timeline
1860
Born in Cedarville, Illinois
1877
Enters Rockford Female Seminary
1881
Graduates from Rockford
1888
Visits Toynbee Hall in London, England
1889
Founds Hull-House, a social settlement in Chicago, with Ellen Gates Starr
1894
Helps found Chicago Federation of Settlements
1895
Becomes garbage inspector for 19th Ward, Near West Side
1903
Becomes vice president of National Woman's Trade Union League
1905-09
Serves as member of Chicago Board of Education
1909
Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Elected 1st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later National Conference of Social Work)
1910
Mediator in Chicago Garment Workers' Strike
Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House
1911-14
1st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association
1st head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers
1912
Seconds Theodore Roosevelt's nomination for President of the U.S. at Progressive Party convention in Chicago
1913
Speaks at the 7th Congress of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, Budapest, Hungary
1915
Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected 1st chair
Presides at International Congress of Women at the Hague, Netherlands
1919
Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), serves as President 1919-29
1920
Helps found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
1928
Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific Women's Association, in Hawaii
1931
1st American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1935
Dies in hospital in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois