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| 1831 | Birth |  |
| Cuyahoga County Birth of James Abram Garfield, Orange, Ohio, youngest of 5 children born on a poor farm on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio, the poorest man ever to become President |
| 1862 | Election | |
| 19th Sep Elected to the United States House of Representatives |
| 1876 | Leader House of Representatives Garfield | |
| Appointed Republican floor leader of the House of Representatives |
| 1876 | Party Leader | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Republican Party |
| 1880 | Constitution | |
| Washington Garfield is the only person who was elected President directly from the United States House of Representatives |
| 1880 | Election | |
| Elected Member of the Senate |
| Garfield defeats the Democratic candidate Winfield Scott Hancock, another distinguished former Union Army general, by 214 electoral votes to 155 |
| 1880 | President | |
| Garfield is the only person who was elected President directly from the United States House of Representatives |
| 4th Mar Appointed President of the USA, 20th President, Garfield takes office |
| 1881 | Assassination | |
| 2nd July Potomac Charles Guiteau, failed applicant for an appointment as minister to Austria & consul-general to Paris , shoots Garfield in a railroad station, he dies 19th Sept |
| 2nd July Potomac Garfield's assassination is instrumental to the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act on January 16, 1883 |
| 2nd July Potomac Guiteau says, "I am a Stalwart of the Stalwarts! I did it and I want to be arrested! Arthur is President now," |
| 2nd July Potomac One bullet grazes his arm, a 2nd bullet lodged in his back & could not be found despite Alexander Graham Bell devising a metal detector |
| 1881 | Burial | |
| Lakeview Cemetery Garfield is buried, with great and solemn ceremony, in a mausoleum in Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1881 | Death | |
| 19th Sep Elberon Death of James Abram Garfield, dies from gunshot wounds fired by Charles Guiteau |
| 1881 | Inauguration of Garfield | |
| Washington Inaugurated as President |
