| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1765, Feb. 21 | Born, Dinwiddie County, Va. |
| 1790 | Appointed consul general of Martinique, West Indies, by President George Washington |
| 1795 | Appointed consul general to France |
| 1796-1800 | Sole commercial and diplomatic agent of the United States in France |
| 1800-1808 | Official commercial agent of the United States in France |
| 1802 | Married Evelina Louisa Barlié van den Clooster, a Flemish countess |
| 1803 | Instrumental in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase |
| 1808 | Resigned and returned to the United States, settling on the plantation Monte Sano, near Baton Rouge, La. (then West Florida) |
| 1810 | Helped lead revolt to free West Florida from Spain
Governor, Republic of West Florida |
| circa 1812 | After annexation of West Florida to the United States became registrar of the land office |
| circa 1814-circa 1827 | Served in Louisiana state senate |
| 1839, Jan. 7 | Died, Monte Sano plantation, Baton Rouge, La. |
| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1788, Sept. 26 | Born, Baltimore, Md., son of Isaac Causten |
| 1813 | Married Eliza Myer (died 1856) |
| circa 1817 | Shipping agent, Baltimore, Md. |
| circa 1825 | Moved to Washington, D.C., to work on French spoliation claims
Consul in Washington, D.C., for Ecuador and Chile |
| 1825-1874 | Worked actively to settle French spoliation and Spanish claims |
| 1874, Oct. 28 | Died, Washington, D.C. |
| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1822, Oct. 9 | Born, Maysville, Ky. |
| 1841 | Appointed to United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
| circa 1842-1844 | Studied law, Lexington Law School, Lexington, Va. |
| 1845 | Consul, Turk's Island, Bahamas |
| 1850 | Joined Narciso López's expedition against Cuba |
| 1852 | Fought as a general under Lajos Kossuth in Hungarian revolution |
| 1853, Oct. 18 | Married Catherine ("Kate") Keyworth (died 1888) |
| 1853-1860 | American consul, Vera Cruz, Mexico |
| 1862 | Appointed minister to Mexico by Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America |
| circa 1863-circa 1865 | Chief of staff under General John Breckenridge |
| circa 1865-1884 | Law practice in Washington, D.C.; became associated with James H. Causten |
| 1873 | Intermediary in sale of Confederate documents to United States government |
| 1884, Oct. 18 | Died, Washington, D.C. |
