1859 | Born at 186 South Willard Street, Burlington, Vermont, USA to Lucinda Rich Dewey and Archibald Sprague Dewey |
1875 | Graduated from Burlington High School |
1879 | Bachelor of Arts degree, University of Vermont (Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Psi) |
High school teacher, Oil City Pennsylvania to 1881 | |
1881 | Teacher, Lake View seminary, Charlotte Vermont. |
Studied philosophy with H.A.P. Torrey as private student | |
1882 | Entered Johns Hopkins University as graduate student, encounters Charles Sanders Peirce |
1883 | Becomes Fellow at Johns Hopkins University |
1884 | Doctorate awarded by Johns Hopkins University. His dissertation "The Psychology of Kant" was not published and appears to have been lost. |
Appointed Instructor in Philosophy, University of Michigan | |
1886 | Marries Harriet Alice Chipman of Fenton Michigan on July 28, 1886, one of his students |
Promoted to Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan | |
1887 | First child, Frederick born |
1888 | Appointed Professor of Philosophy at University of Minnesota |
1889 | Appointed Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan |
First daughter, Evelyn, born | |
1890 | George Herbert Mead joins Department of Philosophy at University of Michigan, becomes life-long friend of Dewey |
1893 | Second son, Morris, born |
1894 | Appointed Professor of Philosophy at University of Chicago |
Creation of the Department of Philosophy, Psychology and Education | |
1895 | Son, Morris (born 1893) dies of diphtheria in Milan, Italy |
1896 | Son, Gordon, born |
Laboratory School at the University of Chicago begins operation. The University merged the school into the University School in 1904. | |
1897 | Daughter, Lucy, born |
1899 | Elected President of the American Psychological Association |
1900 | Daughter, Jane, born |
1902 | Appointed Director of the School of Education, University of Chicago, serving until 1904. |
1904 | Appointed Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University. Remains at Columbia until 1930. |
Honorary LL.D. University of Wisconsin | |
Son, Gordon (born 1896), dies of typhoid fever while family vacationing in Ireland | |
Adopt son, Sabino, in Milan, Italy | |
1905 | Elected President of the American Philosophical Association |
1906 | Lecturer in Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1906-1907. |
1910 | Named Member of the National Academy of Sciences |
Honorary LL.D., University of Vermont | |
1911 | Named Member of the American Philosophical Society |
1913 | Honorary LL.D. University of Michigan |
1915 | Founder and first President, American Association of University Professors |
Honorary LL.D., Johns Hopkins University | |
1917 | Honorary LL.D., Illinois College |
1919 | Lecturer, Imperial University, Tokyo |
Lecturer, National Universities of Peking and Nanking, China, 1919 - 1921 | |
Helps found New School for Social Research, New York | |
1921 | Honorary Ph.D., National University of Peking |
1923 | Membre correspondant, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Institut de France, section de philosophie. |
1924 | Educational survey of Turkey |
1925 | Named Paul Carus Lecturer (Experience and Nature (1929)) |
1926 | Educational survey of Mexico |
1927 | Alice Dewey dies of arteriosclerosis |
1929 | Gifford Lecturer, University of Edinburgh (The Quest for Certainty) |
Honorary Litt.D., Columbia University | |
Honorary LL.D., University of St. Andrews | |
1930 | Named Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in residence, Columbia University |
William James Lecturer, Harvard University (Art as Experience) | |
Docteur de l'Université honoris causa, Paris. | |
1931 | Lecturer, National University of Peking |
1932 | Honorary LL.D., Harvard University |
Helps found University-In-Exile | |
Elected Honorary President, National Education Association | |
1935 | Begins correspondence with Arthur Bentley, originally a student at University of Chicago |
1937 | Chairman, Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials |
1938 | Elected Honorary President for Life, American Philosophical Association |
1939 | Named Professor Emeritus, Columbia University |
Awarded Order of the Jade by China | |
1946 | Marries Roberta Lowitz Grant of New York City on December 11, 1946 |
Honorary D.Sc., University of Pennsylvania | |
Honorary Ph.D., University of Oslo | |
1949 | Awarded the Order of Merit by Chile |
1951 | Honorary Litt.D., Yale University |
1952 | Named Honorary Vice-President, New York State Liberal Party |
Dies at home, 1158 Fifth Avenue, New York City on June 1, 1952 after breaking his hip the previous November. |