William Taft Timeline: Presidential Timeline of Important Events |
| 1909 | His inauguration as 27th President of the United States |
| 1909 | Taft's Dollar Diplomacy (1909 - 1913) calling for the use of diplomatic and military action to further foreign business interests |
| 1909 | His administration continued the Antitrust Policy initiated by Theodore Roosevelt that was designed to keep markets open and competitive. |
| 1909 | March 25: The Crazy Snake Rebellion between the Creek Indians and settlers in Oklahoma |
| 1909 | June: The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act lowered tariffs on certain goods entering the US |
| 1909 | November: The Ballinger-Pinchot scandal in which Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger is accused of conspiring to defraud the public domain in the Alaskan coal fields and that the Taft administration was complicit in his actions |
| 1910 | June: The Postal Savings Depository Act of 1910 established the Postal Savings System |
| 1910 | Angel Island Immigration Station opened in the San Francisco Bay, California |
| 1910 | The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) started with an uprising led by Francisco Madero against Porfirio Díaz |
| 1911 | The Battle of Kelley Creek in Nevada. A small group of Bannock and Shoshone killed four men in an incident known as the Last Massacre |
| 1911 | The President began to back away from his efforts to tame the trusts. |
| 1912 | New Mexico is admitted as the forty-seventh state on January 6, 1912 |
| 1912 | The Sinking of the Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland on April 14, 1912 |
| 1913 | The Sixteenth Amendment Ratified authorizing Congress to collect income taxes |
| 1913 | The 17th Amendment Ratified stating that people will elect Senators. Before this, Senators were elected by state legislatures. |
| 1913 | His presidency and term in office ends. The next US President was Woodrow Wilson |
Presidential Timeline of important Events |