| Zachary Taylor Timeline: Presidential Timeline of Important Events |
 | 1849 | His inauguration as 12th President of the United States |
| 1849 | The conflicts of the Apache Wars (1849 -1924) continued in the Southwest and led to the short lived Jicarilla War fought between the Jicarilla Apaches and Ute warriors against the US |
| 1849 | He spent the first weeks of his Presidency deciding on his cabinet and in the summer of 1849 Taylor toured the northeastern U.S. |
| 1850 | In May 1850 debates in Congress raged over whether slavery should be expanded into the territories of California, New Mexico, and Utah that were won during the Mexican War. |
| 1850 | The Compromise of 1850, were legislative measures enacted by Congress to reconcile the differences existing between the North and South concerning the issue of Slavery in newly formed US Territories. President Taylor impeded the passage of the bill because he favored admission of California and New Mexico as free states |
| 1850 | The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 |
| 1850 | The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty was signed with Britain guaranteeing that any future canal across Central America would be available to all nations. |
| 1850 | The Galphin scandal in which the Galphin Estate was at the center of a dispute between the government and the Galphin family. A scandal arose involving George Crawford a member of the cabinet and the Secretary of the Treasury William Meredith |
| 1850 | The President Zachary Taylor died in office on July 9, 1850 of "acute indigestion" after eating a bowl of cherries. His untimely death led to rumors that he was poisoned by pro-slavery Southerners |
| 1850 | Vice President Millard Fillmore took the oath of office the day after his death. The next US President was therefore Millard Fillmore |
| Zachary Taylor Timeline of important Events |
