Aug. 3, 1823 – born Waterford Ireland
1834 – Jesuit Boarding school, Clongowes Wood College
1838 – Youngest medalist in the Debating Society
1843 – Returns to Ireland
1844 – Joins the Repeal Association
1846 – Joins the Young Irelanders
1848 – To France; returns with tricolor
1848 – March 1 – Flies the tricolor at 33 the Mall; arrested with ten others
1849 – Convicted, death sentence commuted to life transportation to Tasmannia
1851 – Marries Catherine Bennett
1852 – January – escapes Van Diemen’s Land
May – arrives New York, USA
1854 – Catherine arrives New York; four months later returns to Ireland, gives birth to Thomas Bennett Meagher, subsequently dies
1856 – Marries Elizabeth Townsend
1860 – To Panama
1861 – April 29 – Enlists in New York for the Union Army, US 69th
1862 – Forms The Irish Brigade
1863 – May 14 – Resigns commission
1864 – Reassigned
1865 – October – arrives MT Territory, immediately becomes Acting Governor
1866 – Convenes legislature to bring Montana to statehood
1867 – July 1 – Disappears mysteriously in Ft. Benton MT
1905 – Statue erected in Helena MT