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)
