Timeline - Obama Presidency Oral History
2008
10 3, 2008
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act signed
11 4, 2008
President Obama elected
12 16, 2008
Economic team briefed on stimulus proposals
2009
1 20, 2009
President Obama inaugurated
1 22, 2009
Guantanamo Bay closure ordered
1 29, 2009
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act signed
2 17, 2009
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed
2 19, 2009
CNBC's Rick Santelli calls for a 21st century "Tea Party" movement
2 24, 2009
Address to Congress on economic conditions and the importance of healthcare reform
3 20, 2009
First Lady breaks ground on new White House vegetable garden
3 29, 2009
Extension of support to GM and Chrysler
4 2, 2009
G20 summit on global financial crisis in London
4 5, 2009
Speech on nuclear nonproliferation in Prague
6 4, 2009
Speech to the Muslim world in Cairo
6 26, 2009
American Clean Energy and Security Act passes the House
7 11, 2009
Speech to the Ghanaian Parliament in Accra
7 30, 2009
President Obama and Vice President Biden host "beer summit" at the White House
8 6, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor Confirmed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by US Senate
9 9, 2009
Republican congressman interrupts healthcare reform speech with "You lie!''
10 24, 2009
H1N1 declared national emergency
10 28, 2009
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act signed
11 5, 2009
Inauguration of annual Tribal Nations Conferences
11 5, 2009
Mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas
12 1, 2009
Troop surge in Afghanistan announced during West Point speech
12 7, 2009
UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen
12 10, 2009
President Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize
12 25, 2009
"Underwear bomber" attempt aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253
2010
1 12, 2010
Major earthquake in Haiti
1 15, 2010
Healthcare reform conference meetings with Democratic congressional leaders
1 19, 2010
Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley in Massachusetts special election
1 21, 2010
SCOTUS prohibits restrictions on political spending by corporations
1 27, 2010
First State of the Union Address
2 9, 2010
Michelle Obama announces Let's Move! initiative
2 18, 2010
National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform created
2 25, 2010
Healthcare summit at the Blair House
3 23, 2010
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed
3 31, 2010
Speech on energy security and offshore drilling
4 20, 2010
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
5 1, 2010
Attempted Times Square car bombing
7 21, 2010
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed
8 3, 2010
Fair Sentencing Act signed
8 5, 2010
Elena Kagan confirmed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by US Senate
10 2, 2010
2010 United States midterm elections
11 28, 2010
WikiLeaks begins publishing leaked US diplomatic cables
12 13, 2010
Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act signed
12 17, 2010
Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act signed
12 17, 2010
Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolates in Tunisia
12 18, 2010
US Senate passes Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal and rejects DREAM Act
12 22, 2010
New START nuclear arms reduction treaty ratified by US Senate
2011
1 8, 2011
Representative Giffords survives assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona
1 25, 2011
2011 State of the Union Address
3 19, 2011
NATO-led intervention in Libya begins
4 4, 2011
President Obama announces his candidacy for re-election
4 12, 2011
Joining Forces initiative announced
4 27, 2011
White House releases President Obama's "long form" birth certificate
5 2, 2011
Osama Bin Laden is killed
6 1, 2011
White House engages in Grand Bargain fiscal negotiations with congressional Republicans
6 22, 2011
Planned drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan announced
8 2, 2011
Budget Control Act signed
9 8, 2011
President Obama calls on lawmakers to pass American Jobs Act
9 17, 2011
Occupy Wall Street takes over New York's Zuccotti Park
9 19, 2011
Keystone XL protestors arrested at White House
10 21, 2011
Withdrawal of US troops in Iraq announced
12 6, 2011
Speech on inequality
2012
2 22, 2012
Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act signed
2 26, 2012
Trayvon Martin killed in Sanford, Florida
5 9, 2012
President Obama announces support for marriage equality
6 15, 2012
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) issued
6 28, 2012
Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act
7 20, 2012
Mass shooting during screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado
8 5, 2012
Mass shooting at Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin
8 20, 2012
President Obama sets Syrian "red line" on chemical weapons
9 11, 2012
Attack on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya
10 22, 2012
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall
11 6, 2012
President Obama re-elected
11 19, 2012
President Obama visits Myanmar
12 14, 2012
Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut
2013
1 1, 2013
American Taxpayer Relief Act signed
1 1, 2013
"Fiscal cliff" crisis
1 29, 2013
Hadiya Pendleton murdered in Chicago, Illinois at park after school
3 1, 2013
Budget Control Act sequestration takes effect
4 15, 2013
Bombing at the Boston Marathon
6 5, 2013
Snowden leaks hit The Guardian
6 7, 2013
"Shirt-sleeves summit"
6 25, 2013
Climate Action Plan released
6 25, 2013
Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder ruling
6 26, 2013
Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act ruled unconstitutional
6 27, 2013
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act passes Senate
6 30, 2013
Power Africa initiative launched
10 1, 2013
Federal government shutdown
10 1, 2013
healthcare.gov launched
12 1, 2013
Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
2014
2 7, 2014
Farm Bill signed
2 20, 2014
Russian annexation of Crimea begins
5 2, 2014
First Lady Michelle Obama launches Reach Higher
6 13, 2014
Visit to the Standing Rock Sioux tribal nation in Cannonball, SD
6 30, 2014
Supreme Court grants religious exemptions in healthcare coverage
7 28, 2014
White House urges Congress to supply emergency funding for border crisis
8 9, 2014
Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri
11 4, 2014
2014 midterm elections
11 11, 2014
US-China climate change announcement
11 20, 2014
Protection for parents of US citizens and permanent residents announced
12 18, 2014
Task Force on 21st Century Policing established
2015
1 2, 2015
Ship carrying Syrian migrants rescued off Italian coast
3 3, 2015
President and First Lady launch Let Girls Learn
3 7, 2015
50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
4 27, 2015
Unrest in Baltimore following Freddie Gray's death
6 17, 2015
Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina
6 25, 2015
Supreme Court upholds tax provisions of the Affordable Care Act
6 26, 2015
Supreme Court rules that right to marry extends to same-sex couples
6 29, 2015
EPA mandated to consider cost implications of new greenhouse gas emissions
7 26, 2015
Address to Kenyan public in Nairobi
8 3, 2015
Clean Power Plan released
8 31, 2015
President Obama travels to Alaska
10 18, 2015
United Nations Security Council adopts Iran Nuclear Deal
11 6, 2015
Keystone XL pipeline rejected
11 13, 2015
Paris terror attacks
11 30, 2015
UN Climate Conference in Paris
12 2, 2015
Terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California
2016
1 16, 2016
Iran Nuclear Deal comes into effect
2 4, 2016
Trans-Pacific Partnership signed
2 9, 2016
Supreme Court Blocks EPA regulation of power plant emissions
3 16, 2016
Merrick Garland nominated to Supreme Court
3 20, 2016
Visit to Havana, Cuba
5 4, 2016
Visit to Flint, Michigan to address water crisis
6 12, 2016
Mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida
6 23, 2016
Supreme Court Blocks DAPA Program
7 7, 2016
Mass shooting at Dallas protest over killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling
10 28, 2016
Mass arrest of protestors at Standing Rock
11 8, 2016
Donald Trump wins presidential election
12 13, 2016
21st Century Cures Act signed
2017