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Timeline:
Jimmy Carter
White House to Ga.: 1981 -
1981
January 20: The hostages are released moments after Ronald
Reagan takes the oath of office.
January 21: Carter meets the released hostages in Germany.
August 9: Egyptian president Sadat visits the Carters in Plains.
September 15: Israeli Prime Minister Begin visits Plains.
October 6: President Sadat is assassinated. Former president
Carter will travel to Cairo with former president Gerald Ford to
attend his friend's funeral.
July: Carter meets with advisers at Sapelo Island to plan the
Carter Center.
September: Carter starts teaching at Emory University in
Atlanta.
October: Carter's presidential memoir, Keeping Faith appears in
bookstores.
1983
 September 26: Carter's sister Ruth Carter Stapleton dies at age
54 of pancreatic cancer. Several weeks later, his mother Lillian
Carter also dies.
October 23: Terrorists drive a truck loaded with TNT into the
U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut, killing 241 Americans.
November 6-9: Former presidents Carter and Ford co-chair a
conference at the Carter Center, "Five Years after Camp David."
Though Israel boycotts the conference, the media reports
favorably on the attempt.
1984
Early March: Carter joins a Habitat for Humanity construction
crew in Americus, Georgia for morning devotions and a day of
house building. The New York Times reports, "Mr. Carter has been
toiling in a callous-raising enterprise that may be unheard of
for a former Commander in Chief."
September 1: Carter, his wife Rosalynn and 36 others leave
Georgia on a Trailways bus headed to New York, where they work
on a tenement house for Habitat for Humanity.
October 2: Construction of the Carter Center begins.
November: Ronald Reagan wins re-election with a decisive victory
over Democrat Walter Mondale.
1985
Carter publishes a book, The Blood of Abraham, about the Middle
East peace process.
April: The Carter Center sponsors an arms control consultation
with eight high-level Soviet officials. Cable news channel CNN
airs the final, eleven-hour consultation live.
November 13: A volcano erupts in Columbia. Carter continues with
his previously scheduled trip there and administers the Sabin
polio vaccine to two infant boys on national television.
1986
June: The Carter Center's Global 2000/Sasakawa Africa
Association opens its first office in Accra, Ghana. By 1991, the
project's end date, Ghana will become a self-sufficient
food-producing nation.
October 1: President Reagan attends the dedication of the Carter
Center. After a gracious speech by Reagan, Carter replies, "I
think I understand more clearly than I ever had before why you
won in November 1980 and I lost."
1987
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's book, Everything to Gain: Making the
Most of the Rest of Your Life, is published and stays on The New
York Times bestseller list for 10 weeks.
January 28: The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, next to the
Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, opens to researchers.
October 21: The Carter Center convinces Merck, a Fortune 500
pharmaceuticals giant, to donate the drug Mectizan for as long
as might be needed to control river blindness in Africa.
1988
Jimmy Carter publishes An Outdoor Journal, recounting a lifetime
of experiences as a fisherman and hunter.
September 26: Brother Billy Carter dies at the age of 51 from
pancreatic cancer.
1989
May 9: Former presidents Carter and Ford jointly lead a team of
Panamanian election monitors.
September 7-19: Preliminary peace negotiations between the
Ethiopian government and the Eritrean People's Liberation Front
begin at The Carter Center.
1990
February 23-28: Carter travels to Nicaragua to observe
presidential elections. Carter convinces incumbent Daniel Ortega
to accept the surprising election of Violeta Chamorro.
March: Sister Gloria Carter Spann dies at the age of 63.
April 4: Carter and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat meet for
the first time in a Paris hotel.
May 16: Carter monitors elections in the Dominican Republic.
December 16: Carter leads a mission to monitor Haiti's first
democratic national elections.
1991
February 7: Carter attends the inauguration of Haitian president
Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
August 2: Rosalynn Carter announces the formation of "Every
Child By Two," a nationwide campaign for early childhood
immunization.
September: Haitian president Aristide is ousted by a military
junta lead by General Raoul Cedras.
September 4: The Carter Center announces the formation of a
Mental Health Task Force under the direction of Mrs. Carter.
October 25: Carter announces the Atlanta Project, a major
domestic initiative to tackle inner city social problems.
October 31: Carter leads an international delegation to observe
elections in Zambia.
1992
Carter publishes Turning Point, an account of his first election
to the Georgia senate.
September 2-8: The Carters visit Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali,
Niger, and Togo in Africa to promote an effort to eradicate
Guinea worm disease.
October 5: Carter and others observe presidential elections in
Guyana.
November 4: The Carter Center monitors the polls during general
elections in Ghana.
1993
May 9: Carter and other observers monitor elections in Paraguay.
October: Guinea worm disease is eradicated in Pakistan.
October 15: Carter, along with former presidents Gerald Ford,
Ronald Reagan, and George Bush, announce they will serve as
chairmen of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
commission.
1994
June 12-18: The Carters meet with North and South Korean leaders
to discuss nuclear disarmament. A few weeks later, North Korean
leader Kim Il Sung dies, aborting the planned reunification
talks.
September 17-18: Carter heads a mission to Haiti with former
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell and
Georgia Senator Sam Nunn at the request of President Clinton.
They negotiate terms of departure for Haiti's de facto leaders.
The successful meetings avert a U.S.-led multinational invasion
and result in a signed agreement for the peaceful removal of the
officers from power.
December 17-21: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter travel to the former
Yugoslavia to facilitate talks among warring Bosnian Muslims and
Serbs. The Carter mission produces a four-month cease fire and
the resumption of peace talks.
1995
March 30: Carter negotiates a two-month Sudanese cease-fire
allowing leaders and citizens of Sudan to initiate efforts to
eradicate Guinea worm disease, prevent river blindness, and
immunize children against polio and other diseases.
1996
January 18-21: The Carters lead a 40-member delegation from 11
countries to Jerusalem to observe Palestinian elections.
1997
March 5: Carter and Yasser Arafat meet in Plains, Georgia.
December 18: A fifty-five member delegation, including Carter,
General Colin Powell, and boxing champion Evander Holyfield
observe parliamentary elections in Jamaica.
1998
March 2-15: A Carter Center delegation observes village
elections in China. This is the fourth visit by the Center to
discuss, observe, or advise the Chinese government on elections.
December 6: Carter leads a team of more than 40 delegates to
observe the Venezuelan presidential election.
December 10: Carter receives the first United Nations Human
Rights Prize on the 50th anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
1999
February 27: The Carters are joined by General Colin Powell and
former Nigerian President Mahamane Ousmane as co-leaders of a
60-member delegation to observe the Nigerian presidential
elections.
May 22: The Carter Center observes the Cherokee Nation elections
in Oklahoma.
June 7: The Carter Center helps field a team of 100 observers to
the Indonesian parliamentary elections.
August 9: President Clinton presents former president Jimmy
Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter with the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the
United States.
September 3: Carter calls for the Indonesian government to move
swiftly to maintain order in East Timor, where armed
pro-integration militias are terrorizing the populace in the
wake of the August 30 balloting.
December 3-5: The Carters and former Botswana President Ketumile
Masire lead a team of observers to the Mozambique general
elections.
2000
February 11: Carter Center observers visit Lima and find that
Peru's election process does not yet meet international
standards for democratic elections.
May 12: Carter Center observers in the Dominican Republic praise
the elections yet call for improvements in the voting process.
May 28: The Carter Center withdraws from observing Peru's
presidential run-off election, citing conditions that would make
a fair election impossible.
July 2: Carter leads a delegation to observe Mexico's
presidential elections. The country elects a new president,
Vicente Fox, breaking 71 years of rule by the governing PRI
party.
July 30: The Carter Center observes elections in Venezuela. The
elections go smoothly, although delegation members note some
technical problems with the electronic vote tabulation machines.
2000
June: Carter is the first American president to visit Cuba in
over 40 years. He calls for the decades-old U.S. trade embargo
of Cuba, and challenges Cuban president Fidel Castro to
introduce democratic reforms.
August: The Carter Center celebrates its 20th anniversary.
October: Carter receives the Nobel Peace Prize for "his decades
of untiring efforts to find peaceful solutions to international
conflict.
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