1811--March 20, Bingham was born to Henry Vest and Mary Amend Bingham in Virginia

1819-Moved with his family to the Missouri Territory

1823-Henry Vest Bingham died

1825-After Franklin flooded, family moved to Saline County farm near Arrow Rock

1828,circ-Bingham moved to Boonville to being apprenticeship to carpenter Justinian Williams

1833-Began painting portraits

1834-Paints portraits of James Sidney Rollins, Dr. John Sappington and his wife

1836-April, Married  Sarah Elizabeth Hutchinson, of Boonville

1837-March, son Newton is born

1837-Painted portraits in Natchez, Mississippi

1838-March-June, studied briefly at the Philadelphia

1840-Attended Whig convention in Rocheport, MO

1840-1844-Lives in Washington, D.C. with family

1841-March, son Newton dies at age of four, son Horace is born

1841-1844-visits Petersburg, Virginia and Philadelphia

1842-Completes Going to Market, or Market Day; and portraits of John Quincy Adams and Daniel 
          Webster

1844-returns to Missouri, paints banners for Whig Convention in Boonville

1845-resided in St. Louis, while his family lived in Boonville where  daughter Clara is born; shipped 
          four paintings to New York Art-Union, including Fur Traders escending the Missouri

1846-campaigned as Whig candidate for state representative from Saline County against; Bingham 
           reportedly won but lost when election was contested by his opponent, Eramus Sappington ;
           exhibited Jolly Flatboatmen at St. Louis

1848-won election as state rep for Saline County;

1848-In November his wife and one son die.

1849-In September, married Eliza K. Thomas

1851-Began Emigration of Daniel Boone

1852-Represented Missouri's eighth district at Whig Convention in Baltimore, also Canvassing the
          Vote and The County Election.

1855-Stump Speaking and The Verdict of the People

1856-Traveled with wife and daughter to Dusseldorf, Germany, where he painted Thomas Jefferson
           and George Washington

1861-In June became captain in US Volunteer Reserve Corp

1862-1865-resigned captaincy to become state treasurer in provisional government

1863-Thomas Ewing issued Order No. 11

1866-Unsuccessful congressional candidate

1868-Bingham completes first painting of Order No. 11; chosen as elector to the Democratic State
          Convention

1870-executes second larger version of Order No. 11

1875-Appointed Adjutant General

1876-began portrait of Vinnie Ream while in Washington

1876-lobbied Congress to provide Missouri with money to pay its state militia for service to the
          federal government during Civil War; October, relinquished post as Adjutant General due to ill
          health; committed wife to mental institution

1876-November, wife died

1877-Becomes the University of Missouri's first professor of art;
married Martha "Mattie" Livingston Lykins

1879-Died in his home in Kansas City