June 5, 1946: Graduation from the Naval Academy and entry into service until 1953.

July 7, 1946: Married Rosalynn Smith.

1953: Returns home to take over the family farm.

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

1962: Wins a state Senate seat and retains it until 1966.

November 3, 1970: Wins Georgia gubernatorial election.

December 12, 1974: Presidential candidacy announced, to which the response is: “Jimmy Who?”

November 2, 1976: Defeats Gerald Ford in the presidential race.

January 20, 1977: Sets the tone for his administration by walking from the Capitol to the White House after being sworn in.

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

August 15, 1978: A law designating the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area was signed.

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

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

January 1980: After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in late December 1979, Carter decided that US athletes would not compete in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

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

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

November 4, 1980: Loses the presidential election to Ronald Reagan.

January 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 homes. This becomes the annual Jimmy Carter Work Project.

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

1987: The Carter Center’s Global 2000 Project participates in the fight against Guinea worm disease, a parasitic disease that affects millions of people in developing countries each year.

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

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

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

September 17, 1994: Leads a delegation to Haiti that negotiates terms to prevent a U.S. invasion and return President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.

October 1, 1996: The National Park Service opens the Carter Museum in the former Plains High School on its 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 dramatically reduce the number of cases worldwide.

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

August 9, 1999: Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Rosalynn.

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

12-17. May 2002: Visits Cuba with members of the Rosalynn and Carter Center. Gives a speech on Cuban television calling for democratic reforms in Cuba and an end to the US trade embargo.

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

May 2003: Work is underway behind the scenes to change Georgia’s state flag to avert a statewide referendum on the Rebels’ battle emblem.

Jan. 25, 2004: Travel to Venezuela to meet with President Hugo Chávez, opposition leaders and others in the politically divided country of 24 million.

June 5, 2004: Christening of the USS Jimmy Carter, the Navy’s newest nuclear ship, a $3.3 billion submarine.

July 26, 2004: Strongly condemns the Bush administration’s speech to the Democratic National Convention, saying the “soul of the nation” is at stake in the November election.

August 2004: Leads the team overseeing the vote to recall Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

September 7, 2004: Blames fellow Georgian and former Gov. Zell Miller in a two-page letter for his “rabid and vicious speech” at the Republican National Convention in New York.

September 27, 2004: He sharply accuses Florida officials of not doing enough to improve their election system after the 2000 presidential election.

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

January 2005: Observes the election of new Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with the National Democratic Institute.

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

Oct. 10, 2005: Leads 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 the end of a 14-year civil war.

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

March 22, 2006: Joins co-chair of a bipartisan commission on federal election reform and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III to announce that states should require voters to show photo identification and allow voters to view paper ballots at electronic polling stations .

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” met with criticism when it was published. Critics claim he unfairly compared Israel’s treatment of Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza to the legalized racial oppression that once existed in South Africa.

January 2007: 14 Carter Center advisers resign over 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 leaders like Nelson Mandela who work to promote peace and human rights.

April 18, 2008: Defies U.S. and Israeli warnings and meets with the exiled Hamas leader and his deputy, two men the U.S. government had designated as terrorists. US officials were critical. Carter said he had failed to persuade Hamas’ top leader to stop rocket attacks on Israel, adding: “I did my best.”

October 10, 2008: During a stop in Brussels, Carter blames President Bush’s “cruel” economic policies for the start of the Great Recession.

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

June 2009: Carter and a team of observers monitor Lebanon’s general election, 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 “help as long as I live to win your freedom, your independence, your sovereignty and a good life.”

September 14, 2009: Jody Powell dies, a year after Hamilton Jordan was diagnosed with 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: The Carter Center reopens after an extensive $10 million renovation.

August 2010: Travel to North Korea to secure the release of Aijalon Gomes, an American accused of crossing the border last winter.

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

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

2013: The Carters’ grandson, Atlanta attorney Jason Carter, decides to give up his state Senate seat to make an unsuccessful run for governor in 2014. Jimmy Carter helps in the election campaign.

July 31, 2013: Carter visits Colombia, the first Western country to be certified free of river blindness, with support from the Carter Center.

August 2014: During the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, another “elder,” Mary Robinson, joined Carter. The pair pushed for the inclusion of Hamas as a player in peace talks with Israel and the recognition of the group as a legitimate political entity and the lifting of the siege on Gaza.

May 15, 2015: Carter visits Guyana to observe elections.

August 12, 2015: Carter undergoes surgery to remove a mass from his liver and discovers he has 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 questions the legitimacy of Trump’s election due to Russian interference.

August 2020: The Carter Center launches a program to strengthen and build trust in the US electoral system ahead of the presidential election.

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

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

October 1, 2024: Jimmy Carter turns 100.

December 29, 2024: Carter dies at age 100.