Timeline of Jane Addams' Life

1860 - Jane Addams is born in Cedarville, Illinois.

1877-1881 - Jane Addams attends Rockford Female Seminary.

1889 - Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr found Hull House, a settlement house, in Chicago.

1903 - Jane Addams becomes the vice president of the National Women's Trade Union League.

1909 - Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and is elected 1st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later National Conference of Social Work).

1911-1914 - 1st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association and 1st head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers.
1915 - Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected 1st Chairman.
1919 - Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, serves as President 1919-29.
1931 - 1st American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.

1935 - Jane Addams passes away in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois