James Monroe inaugurated president

James and Dolley Madison retire to Montpelier

Commercial panic and bank failure, followed by national economic depression

James Madison names a visitor of University of Virginia

Missouri Compromise

Montpelier hit by Typhus epidemic

Denmark Vesey Conspiracy uncovered in South Carolina

James Madison buys Richard and Anna Cutts' house in Washington, D.C.

Monroe Doctrine

James Madison becomes first vice president of the Virginia Colonization Society

Lafayette visits Montpelier

Henry Clay visits Montpelier

John Quincy Adams inaugurated president

Lydia Sigourney visits Montpelier

Thomas Jefferson dies, James Madison becomes rector of the University of Virginia

Andrew Jackson inaugurated president

James Madison's mother, Nelley Conway Madison, dies

Madisons go to Richmond for the Constitutional Convention

Payne Todd goes to debtor's prison

Nat Turner slave rebellion in Virginia

Dolley Payne Madison's sister, Anna Cutts, dies

President Andrew Jackson visits Montpelier

Henry Clay visits Montpelier

James Madison becomes president of the American Colonization Society

James Madison sells sixteen slaves to a cousin in Louisiana

Harriet Martineau visits Montpelier

James Madison dies

Financial panic and economic depression

Dolley Payne Madison moves to Washington, D.C.

Martin Van Buren inaugurated president