November 2, 1976 Bill Clinton is elected attorney general of Arkansas. Clinton, who ran unopposed, had won the Democratic primary on May 25, 1976.
January, 1977 Hillary Clinton joins the Rose Law Firm.
August 2, 1978 The Clintons enter into a partnership with Jim and Susan McDougal on a real estate investment called Whitewater Development Corporation.
November 7, 1978 Bill Clinton is elected governor of Arkansas.
January 25, 1982 Jim McDougal purchases a savings & loan and later renames it Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan.
April, 1985 Jim McDougal hires the Rose Law Firm to do legal work for Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan.
February 28, 1989 Madison Guaranty is deemed insolvent by federal regulators, ultimately costing federal taxpayers over $60 million. Loans from Madison Guaranty had been used to support the failing Whitewater investment.
May 8, 1991 Conference at the Excelsior Hotel, where Paula Jones alleges then-Governor Clinton sexually harassed her.
October 3, 1991 Governor Clinton announces his candidacy for President of the United States.
January 27, 1992 At a press conference, Gennifer Flowers alleges that she had a twelve-year affair with Governor Clinton.
March 8, 1992 Jeff Gerth at the The New York Times breaks a story on the Clinton's "Whitewater" partnership with the McDougals.
November 3, 1992 Bill Clinton wins the presidential election.
July 20, 1993 Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster commits suicide in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia. Foster was a partner in the Rose Law Firm. According to reports, Foster was troubled by allegations of impropriety by the Clinton White House in the firings of several staffers in the White House Travel Office, known as "Travelgate."
November 29, 1993 Private meeting in the Oval Office study between White House volunteer Kathleen Willey and President Clinton, during which Willey alleges Clinton sexually assaulted her.
January 20, 1994 President Clinton calls for a prosecutor to investigate Whitewater and Attorney General Janet Reno appoints Robert Fiske as Regulatory Special Counsel.
May 6, 1994 Paula Jones's lawyers file a civil lawsuit against President Clinton, seeking $700,000 in damages.
August 5, 1994 As a result of a recently renewed statute signed by Clinton, a three judge panel replaces Robert Fiske with Kenneth W. Starr as Independent Counsel.
November 4, 1994 Republicans win the House for the first time in more than forty years, ushering in the "Republican Revolution" and their speaker, Newt Gingrich.
July 10, 1995 Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old recent college graduate from Los Angeles, begins working at the White House as an unpaid intern.
August 17, 1995 A grand jury charges Jim and Susan McDougal with bank fraud relating to the improper lending practices committed at Madison Guaranty.
November 14, 1995 The federal government shutdown commences. Interns take on the roles of furloughed Federal employees and an intimate relationship between Monica Lewinsky and the President begins.
April 16, 1996 Lewinsky is transferred from the White House to the Pentagon where she befriends Linda Tripp. Lewinsky later revealed her relationship with the President to Tripp in detail.
November 5, 1996 Bill Clinton is elected to a second term as President.
September 18, 1997 Linda Tripp informs her friend, literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, about Lewinsky's relationship with President Clinton. Goldberg advises Tripp to begin taping her phone conversations with Lewinsky.
November 21, 1997 Linda Tripp is contacted by Paula Jones' lawyers. Tripp informs Jones's lawyers for the first time to the existence of Monica Lewinsky.
November 24, 1997 Linda Tripp is subpoenaed in the Jones case.
December 17, 1997 President Clinton telephones Lewinsky to inform her that her name has appeared on the witness list for the Jones case.
December 19, 1997 Lewinsky receives a subpoena from the Jones lawyers.
January 7, 1998 Lewinsky signs an affidavit, denying a sexual relationship with President Clinton.
January 12, 1998 Tripp calls the Office of the Independent Counsel and reveals what she knows about Monica and the President, offering them their taped conversations.
January 16, 1998 The OIC has Tripp set up a meeting with Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton. There, Lewinsky is ambushed by FBI agents and taken to a hotel room where she is held by waiting prosecutors from the OIC until late in the night.
January 17, 1998 President Clinton sits for his deposition in the Jones case.
January 17, 1998 Michael Isikoff's reporting on the Lewinsky investigation is leaked to Matt Drudge, who breaks the story on the "Drudge Report" including details such as Monica Lewinsky's name.
January 21, 1998 The Lewinsky story breaks in the Washington Post and ABC News and begins to dominate mainstream news coverage.
January 26, 1998 While speaking at the White House, President Clinton denies having "sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
January 27, 1998 On NBC's Today show, Hillary Clinton denounces a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
March 15, 1998 Kathleen Willey appears on 60 Minutes and tells her story of her harassment by President Clinton in 1993 to a national audience.
July 28, 1998 In exchange for an agreement of immunity, Lewinsky gives the OIC a dress stained with Bill Clinton's semen and agrees to cooperate with the investigation.
August 3, 1998 The White House Physician draws a vial of blood from President Clinton.
August 17, 1998 President Clinton submits to four hours of videotaped testimony from Starr's prosecutors for the grand jury. Later that day, Clinton admits to the affair in a nationally televised address.
September 9, 1998 Starr submits the written report of the findings of his investigation, the Starr Report, to Congress.
September 11, 1998 The House votes to release the Starr Report to the public.
October 8, 1998 The House votes for an impeachment investigation.
November 3, 1998 The Republicans lose seats in the House in midterm congressional elections, leading House Speaker Newt Gingrinch to resign his post.
December 19, 1998 The House votes to impeach President Clinton.
January 7, 1999 The senate impeachment trial begins.
January 14, 1999 The House managers present the case against President Clinton.
February 12, 1999 The senate acquits President Clinton on impeachment charges.
February 24, 1999 Juanita Broaddrick appears on Dateline NBC and alleges that President Clinton raped her in 1978.
September 20, 1999 The Independent Counsel announces that the Whitewater investigation is closed due to insufficient evidence.
January 20, 2007 Hillary Clinton, then serving as a United States Senator from New York, announced that she was running for president on her website. By the last day of the primaries, Barack Obama had become the presumptive nominee. Clinton suspended her campaign on June 7, 2008, endorsing Obama.
May 6, 2014 Having spent a decade out of the public eye, Monica Lewinsky re-emerges as a public figure, publishing an in-depth essay in Vanity Fair titled "Shame and Survival."
2016 Hillary Clinton, who served as Secretary of State under President Obama until February, 2013, becomes the Democratic party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
October 9, 2016 Donald Trump holds a press conference with three women who have accused Bill Clinton of inappropriate behavior—Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones, and Kathleen Willey.
