Timeline
| 1859 | Katherine Lee Bates is born in Falmouth, MA on August 12, 1859 |
| 1874 | Graduates from Wellesley High School |
| 1880 | Graduates from Wellesley College with a Bachelor of Arts degree |
| 1881 | Bates begins a four decade career teaching at Wellesley College as a professor of English Literature. |
| 1893 | During a summer lecture series at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Bates writes the lyrics to "America the Beautiful" |
| 1895 | July 4 - Lyrics to "America the Beautiful" appears in The Congregationalist for the first time. |
| 1904 | Bates rewrites the lyrics to America the Beautiful to make the "phraseology more simple and direct" for composers to set the lyrics to music. |
| 1904 | November 19 - The New and final version of lyrics to "America the Beautiful" are published in The Boston Evening Transcript adding "beautiful" in the third stanza |
| 1915 | Founds the New England Poetry Club and served as its first president |
| 1925 | Retires from Wellesley |
| 1929 | March 28 - Katherine Lee Bates dies |