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Nov. 26, 1899	Bruno Hauptmann is born in Kamenz in the German Empire, the youngest of five children.
Feb. 4, 1902	Charles Augustus Lindbergh is born in Detroit, Michigan to Swedish immigrant Charles August Lindbergh and Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh.
June 22, 1906	Anne Spencer Morrow is born in Englewood, New Jersey, to Dwight Morrow and Elizabeth Reeve Cutter Morrow.
Nov. 1924	Bruno Hauptmann enters the United States.
May 20-21, 1927	Lindbergh makes the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic, flying from Roosevelt Field in New York City in the Spirit of St. Louis.
Dec. 21, 1927	Lindbergh meets Anne Morrow in Mexico while on a Latin American goodwill tour.
May 27, 1929	Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow are married.
1929	Anne Lindbergh flies solo for the first time.
June 22, 1930	Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. is born on his mother's 24th birthday.
1930	Anne Lindbergh becomes the first American woman to earn a first-class glider pilot's license.
Jan. 1932	The Lindberghs move into their new estate in Hopewell, New Jersey.
March 1, 1932	Charles, Jr. is kidnapped from his crib on the second floor of the Lindbergh estate in Hopewell, sometime between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.  A ransom note demanding $50,000 is left on a radiator which formed a windowsill in the baby's room.
March 2, 1932	Reporters and souvenir hunters swarm over the Lindbergh estate.
March 5, 1932	The Lindberghs receive their first communication from kidnappers since the crime.
March 8, 1932	Dr. John F. Condon publishes open letter to the kidnappers in the Bronx Home News, signed with his moniker "Jafsie," a phonetic representation of his initials, J. F. C.
March 9, 1932	Dr. Condon receives a reply claiming to be from the kidnapper.
March 10, 1932	The Lindberghs agree to allow Condon to act as intermediary.
March 12, 1932	Condon, a.k.a. "Jafsie," meets with kidnapper "John" at Woodlawn Cemetery.  When Condon expressed doubt that John actually had the baby, John promised some proof: the kidnapper would soon return the baby's sleeping suit.  The stranger asked Condon, "... would I burn [be executed], if the package [baby] were dead?"  When questioned further, he assured Condon that the baby was alive.
March 16, 1932	Condon receives a package by mail that contains a toddler's sleeping suit and a seventh ransom note.  Condon shows the sleeping suit to Lindbergh, who identifies it as belonging to his son.
April 2, 1932	Condon again meets "John" at a cemetery, and gives him the $50,000 ransom.  He does not receive the child in exchange for the ransom.
May 12, 1932	The remains of Charles, Jr. are discovered near the Lindbergh estate in Hopewell.
June 10, 1932	Violet Sharp, a parlor maid in the Morrow household, commits suicide.  It was believed by many that she swallowed poison rather than face the harsh re-questioning by relentless authorities who hounded her.
Sept. 17, 1934	A $10 gold certificate that was part of the ransom is given to a gas station attendant as payment.  Gold certificates were rapidly being withdrawn from circulation; to see one was unusual and attracted attention.  On the end of the certificate, the attendant writes down the license plate number of the car and gives it to the police.  The New York license plate is traced to a dark blue Dodge sedan owned by Bruno Hauptmann.
Sept. 19, 1934	In the morning, investigators follow Hauptmann as he leaves his apartment on Needham Avenue and East 222nd Street in the Bronx, but are quickly noticed.  As a result, Hauptmann attempts to get away by ignoring red lights and traveling at high speed.  As the chase continues, Hauptmann is accidentally boxed in by a municipal sprinkler truck between 178th Street and East Tremont Avenue.  Hauptmann is placed in handcuffs.
Sept. 24, 1934	Hauptmann is arraigned before a New York magistrate on a charge of extortion.
Oct. 10, 1934	A New Jersey grand jury indicts Hauptmann on murder and kidnapping charges.
Jan. 2, 1935	The Hauptmann trial begins in Flemington, New Jersey.
Feb. 14, 1935	Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death.
June 20, 1935	Hauptmann's defense team appeals the conviction to New Jersey's highest tribunal, the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey (Supreme Court of New Jersey cases prior to 1948).
July 15, 1935	The defense files supplemental briefs in support of the appeal.
Oct. 9, 1935	Hauptmann's first appeal is denied.
Oct. 15, 1935	The defense files a second appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dec. 5, 1935	The Governor of New Jersey asks the New Jersey Court of Pardons to grant Hauptmann a personal interview to assess clemency.
Dec. 9, 1935	The U.S. Supreme Court rejects Hauptmann's second appeal.
Jan. 11, 1936	The New Jersey Court of Pardons hears Hauptmann's plea and denies clemency.
Jan. 16, 1936	Anna Hauptmann appeals to New Jersey Governor for a stay of execution.  The stay is granted.
March 30, 1936	The New Jersey Court of Pardons hears Hauptman's plea a second time and denies clemency.
April 3, 1936	Bruno Hauptman is executed in the electric chair at 8:47 p.m.
Aug. 26, 1974	Charles Lindbergh dies in Maui County, Hawaii.
1981	Hauptmann's widow, Anna, continues to proclaim her husband's innocence.  She petitions the state of New Jersey to release secret evidence in a continuing attempt to clear her husband's name.
Oct. 10, 1994	Anna Hauptmann dies at the age of 95.
Feb. 7, 2001	Anne Morrow Lindbergh dies.