| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1787, Dec. 10 | Born, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1805 | B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1808 | M.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1814 | Graduated, Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass., and became a minister |
| circa 1815-1817 | Traveled to England and France to learn ways for teaching deaf people; studied with Abbeé Sicard in Paris, where he learned sign language |
| 1817 | Helped found and direct American Asylum, at Hartford, for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb, Hartford, Conn. |
| 1821 | Married Sara Fowle |
| 1851, Sept. 10 | 1851, Sept. 10 |
| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1837, Feb. 5 | Born, Hartford, Conn. |
| 1855-1857 | Taught at school for the deaf founded by his father in Hartford, Conn. |
| 1856 | Graduated, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. |
| 1857 | Principal, Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Blind, Washington, D.C. |
| 1858 | Married Jane M. Fessenden (died 1866) |
| 1864-1910 | President, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1868 | Married Susan Skinner Denison |
| 1879 | Published A Manual of International Law. New York [etc.]: A. S. Barnes & Co. |
| 1880 | Delegate to international convention of instructors of the deaf, Milan, Italy |
| 1886 | Invited by British government to visit London, England, to testify before a royal commission on the blind, deaf, and dumb |
| 1888 | Published Life of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Founder of Deaf-Mute Instruction in America. New York: H. Holt and Co. |
| 1917, Sept. 26 | Died, Hartford, Conn. |
