12 – December

1-[5] December 1791 – Elizabeth and Eliza Monroe in New York City (JM in Phila)

1-12 December 1829 – president of the Virginia constitutional convention

2 December 1823 – annual message to Congress including passages that became the Monroe Doctrine

2 December 1826 – Andrew Monroe (brother) died

3 December 1810 – took seat in Virginia House of Delegates

4-16 December 1826 – attended meeting of board of visitors of University of Virginia

ca 5 December 1786 – Eliza Monroe born

6 December 1790 – took seat in U. S. Senate

7 December 1801 – annual message as governor to the Virginia General Assembly—urges creation of public school system in Virginia

8 December 1804 – 1 January 1805 – traveled from Paris to Madrid

8 December 1824 – dinner for Lafayette at the President’s House

9 December 1823 – appointed Smith Thompson as associate justice of the Supreme Court

10 December 1802 – ends term as governor of Virginia

11-31 December 1805 – at Cheltenham, England

12 December 1829 – resigned from the Virginia constitutional convention because of

ill health

13 December 1783 – took seat in the Continental Congress

13 December 1807 – arrived at Norfolk on return from England

13-18 December 1819 – Samuel F. B. Morse painted portrait of JM

17 December 1799—began three consecutive one-year terms as governor of Virginia

19 December 1812 – appointed acting secretary of war

20 December 1802 – Elizabeth Monroe and children visiting New York City

23 December 1797 – publication of JM’s A View of the Conduct of the Executive

25 December 1813 – Maria Hester Monroe gave her dolls to Hortensia Hay

26 December 1776 – wounded at the battle of Trenton

31 December 1806– Monroe and William Pinkney signed treaty with Great Britain (not accepted by President Jefferson)