Oct. 1, 1924: Born James Earl Carter Jr. in Plains, Georgia, eldest of Lillian and James Earl Carter’s four children.

1928: The family moves to a farm in Archery, a largely Black community a few miles from Plains. The shotgun-style house had no running water or electricity when they moved in.

June 1941: Jimmy, 16, graduates from Plains High School and briefly attends Georgia Southwestern College and then Georgia Tech, preparing to fulfill his dream of entering the U.S. Naval Academy.

June 5, 1946: Graduates from Naval Academy and enters service until 1953.

July 7, 1946: Marries Rosalynn Smith.

1953: Returns home to take over the family farming businesses.

1955: First political election victory: chairman of Sumter County Board of Education.

1962: Wins a seat in the state Senate and holds it through 1966.

Nov. 3, 1970: Wins Georgia gubernatorial election.

Dec. 12, 1974: Announces presidential bid, prompting the response, “Jimmy Who?”

Nov. 2, 1976: Defeats Gerald Ford for presidency.

Jan. 20, 1977: Sets the tone of his administration by walking from the Capitol to the White House after swearing-in.

June 16, 1978: Signs Panama Canal treaties to transfer control of the canal to Panama.

Aug. 15, 1978: Signs legislation designating the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.

Sept. 17, 1978: Brings Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat together to sign the Camp David Accords.

Nov. 4, 1979: Iranians take 66 Americans hostage at U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

January 1980: Following the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979, Carter decides U.S. athletes will not attend the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

April 17, 1980: Carter announces that an economic recession has begun.

April 25, 1980: Helicopter mission to rescue Iranian hostages fails.

Nov. 4, 1980: Loses presidential election to Ronald Reagan.

Jan. 20, 1981: Minutes after Reagan becomes president, hostages are released from Iranian soil.

September 1984: The Carters donate a week of their time to build Habitat for Humanity houses. It turns into the annual Jimmy Carter Work Project.

October 1984: Groundbreaking for the Carter Center in Atlanta. It opens two years later.

1987: Carter Center’s Global 2000 project joins the fight against Guinea worm disease, a parasitic affliction attacking millions of people a year in developing countries.

May 7, 1989: Carter through the Carter Center monitors fairness of Panama’s elections, a role he would repeat in Nicaragua (February 1990), Haiti (December 1990), Guyana (1992, 2001), Paraguay (1993), Venezuela (1998), Peru (2001) and more than 100 other countries.

Oct. 25, 1991: Announces the Atlanta Project to tackle inner-city problems.

June 1994: Plays key role in nuclear disarmament talks in North Korea.

Sept. 17, 1994: Heads delegation to Haiti that arranges terms to avoid U.S. invasion and return President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.

Oct. 1, 1996: National Park Service opens Carter museum in the former Plains High School on his 72nd birthday.

April 3, 1998: At the seventh and final African Conference on Guinea Worm Eradication, Carter is knighted by Mali for his successful efforts to drastically reduce the number of cases worldwide.

August 1999: The Carter Center turns the Atlanta Project program over to Georgia State University’s Neighborhood Partnership Resource Collaborative.

Aug. 9, 1999: Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom along with Rosalynn.

Oct. 19, 2000: Announces that he and Rosalynn no longer will be members of the Southern Baptist Convention, which he believes has grown too “rigid.”

May 12-17, 2002: Visits Cuba with Rosalynn and Carter Center members. Makes a speech on Cuban television in which he calls for democratic reforms in Cuba and an end to the U.S. trade embargo.

Oct. 11, 2002: Wins the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. He later donates $370,000 of his $1 million award to the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Human Development at Georgia Southwestern State University.

May 2003: Works behind the scenes on the Georgia state flag change to stave off a statewide referendum on the Rebel battle emblem.

Jan. 25, 2004: Travels to Venezuela to meet with President Hugo Chavez, opposition leaders and others in the politically divided nation of 24 million.

June 5, 2004: Christens the USS Jimmy Carter, the Navy’s latest nuclear vessel, a $3.3 billion submarine.

July 26, 2004: Delivers a stinging condemnation of the Bush administration addressing the Democratic National Convention, saying the “nation’s soul” is at stake in the November election.

August 2004: Leads the team monitoring the vote to recall Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Sept. 7, 2004: Blasts fellow Georgian and former Gov. Zell Miller in a two-page letter for his “rabid and mean-spirited speech” to the Republican National Convention in New York.

Sept. 27, 2004: Harshly accuses Florida officials of not doing enough to fix their election system following the 2000 presidential election.

October 2004: Along with 2,000 volunteers, travels to Puebla, Mexico, as part of the Jimmy Carter Work Project to build 75 houses in one week through Habitat for Humanity.

January 2005: Along with the National Democratic Institute, observes election of the new president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.

June 6, 2005: Declares that the United States should close its prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and that the Bush administration was wrong to say parts of the Geneva Conventions do not apply to at least 520 “enemy combatants” from about 40 countries held there.

Oct. 10, 2005: Heads a team of election observers from his center and the National Democratic Institute, another U.S. group, to monitor Liberia’s first presidential election since a 14-year civil war ended.

November 2005: His book “Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis” becomes the quickest-selling of his 20 books to date. In it, he takes aim at fundamentalism, environmental decay, the Iraq War and the Bush administration’s record on human rights.

March 22, 2006: Along with co-leader of a bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, announces that states should require voters to show photo IDs and to let them see paper ballots at electronic polling places.

May 24, 2006: Praises the Bush administration’s immigration policies but remains sharply critical of its human rights record in the war on terror.

June 1, 2006: Toasts Jane Fonda at her celebrity roast at the Georgia Aquarium.

November 2006: His book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” draws criticism upon its release. Critics contend he unfairly compared Israeli treatment of Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza to legalized racial oppression that once existed in South Africa.

January 2007: 14 Carter Center advisers resign because of the book.

August 2007: Jonathan Demme’s documentary “Jimmy Carter Man From Plains” premieres, chronicling Carter’s book tour and the controversy.

2007: Carter joins The Elders, a group of former world political leaders such as Nelson Mandela, who work on promoting peace and human rights.

April 18, 2008: Defies U.S. and Israeli warnings to meet with the exiled leader of Hamas and his deputy, two men the U.S. government had labeled terrorists. U.S. officials were critical. Carter said he failed to convince the top Hamas boss to stop rocket attacks on Israel, adding, “I did the best I could.”

Oct. 10, 2008: During a stop in Brussels, Carter blames the “atrocious” economic policies of President George W. Bush for the beginning of the Great Recession.

Jan. 7, 2009: Joins President-elect Barack Obama, President George W. Bush and former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush at the White House for a historic meeting. Some said the body language during photo ops suggested chilly relations between Carter and the others.

June 2009: Carter and a team of observers monitor parliamentary elections in Lebanon, the 76th election monitored by the Carter Center.

June 13, 2009: The Palestinian government honors Carter during his visit to the region, and he pledges his “assistance, as long as I live, to win your freedom, your independence, your sovereignty and a good life.”

Sept. 14, 2009: Jody Powell dies, a year after Hamilton Jordan succumbed to cancer. The two Georgians were Carter’s closest political advisers. “Jody Powell knows me better than anyone except my wife,” Carter once said.

Oct. 1, 2009: Carter Center reopens after an extensive, $10 million renovation.

August 2010: Travels to North Korea to secure release of Aijalon Gomes, an American who was accused of crossing the border the previous winter.

September 2010: His latest book, “White House Diary,” is based on edited journal entries from his time in the White House. While promoting the book, Carter stirs controversy by saying his post-presidential career was “probably superior” to that of other ex-presidents. He later said he only meant he has had more opportunities to do good works.

Jan. 14, 2013: Carter visits Colombia at the request of the country’s president to brief on the peace talks with rebels and other issues.

2013: The Carters’ grandson, Atlanta attorney Jason Carter, decides to leave his state Senate seat to run unsuccessfully for governor in 2014. Jimmy Carter helps campaign.

July 31, 2013: Carter visits Colombia, the first Western country to be certified as free from river blindness, for which the Carter Center provided support.

August 2014: Carter was joined by another “Elder,” Mary Robinson, during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, with the pair pressing for the inclusion of Hamas as an actor in peace talks with Israel, recognition of the group as a legitimate political entity and the lifting of the siege of Gaza.

May 15, 2015: Carter visits Guyana for election monitoring.

Aug. 12, 2015: Carter undergoes surgery to remove a mass from his liver and discovers he had cancer. It had spread to his brain.

December 2015: Carter announces he is cancer free.

July 13, 2017: Carter is admitted to a hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after becoming dehydrated while working outdoors for Habitat for Humanity. He is released the following day.

June 2019: Carter calls President Donald Trump “a disaster,” during one of his public addresses in Atlanta, and in Virginia he questioned the legitimacy of Trump’s election because of Russian interference.

August 2020: The Carter Center launches a program to strengthen and build confidence in the U.S. election system prior to the presidential election.

February 2023: Jimmy Carter enters home hospice care in Plains.

Nov. 19, 2023: Rosalynn Carter, his wife of 77 years, dies in Plains. She was 96 years old.

Oct. 1, 2024: Jimmy Carter turns 100.

Dec. 29, 2024: Carter dies at age 100.

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