| Year | Date | Historical Events |
| 1961 | Feb 9 | Contract awarded to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA. |
| | Sep 16 | Keel laid down by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA. |
| 1963 | Feb 22 | Launched. |
| | Dec 27 | Commissioned with CDR. Cleo N. Mitchell in command of the Blue Crew and CDR. Walter N. Dietzen in command of the Gold Crew.
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| 1964 | Jan 9 | Departed Vallejo, CA, through the Panama Canal in record time of 7 hours, 10 minutes. |
| | Feb 5 | Making port at Charleston, SC., USS Woodrow Wilson conducted a shakedown cruise off the lower eastern seaboard into March and underwent her post-shakedown availability into April. |
| | May 31 | Woodrow Wilson put to sea at the end of May, upon the conclusion of these repairs and alterations and commenced her first deterrent patrol out of Charleston, SC. in June.
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| | May 31 | (Cont'd.) Woodrow Wilson subsequently operated in the Atlantic until the autumn of 1968 conducting patrols from forward bases at Rota, Spain and Holy Loch, Scotland. |
| 1969 | Nov 19 | After undergoing a 13 month overhaul and A3 Polaris Missile conversion at Newport News Shipbuilding ands drydock Co., Woodrow Wilson was transferred to the Pacific via Charleston, SC and the Panama Canal, arriving at Pearl Harbor, HI. |
| | Nov 19 | (Cpnt'd.) The fleet ballistic missile submarine then continued on to the western Pacific, was based at Guam, and conducted deterrent patrols from Apra Harbor through 1972. |
| 1972 | Dec 31 | Woodrow Wilson shifted back to the Atlantic and another overhaul with C3 Poseidon missile conversion at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. She was then home ported in Charleston, SC. for operations with the Atlantic Fleet.
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| 1990 | Jan 1 | After several overhauls in the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC., and 40 more deterrent patrols, the USS Woodrow Wilson was converted to the Attack Submarine SSN-624. |
| 1993 | Sep 1 | Woodrow Wilson was deactivated. |
| 1994 | Sep 1 | Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register. |
| 1997 | Sep 26 | Woodrow Wilson entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., and on 27 October 1998 ceased to exist.
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