| Year | Date | Historical Events |
| 1971 | Jan 8 | Contract awarded to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA. |
| 1972 | Nov 18 | Keel laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA. |
| 1975 | Apr 26 | Launched. |
| 1977 | Jun 25 | Commissioned. |
| | Jun 25 | Recommissioned. |
| 1992 | Feb 11 | Patrolling off Kildin Island near Severomorsk, Baton Rouge, under command of CDR.Kremer, collided with the Sierra-class attack submarine K-276. The US Navy stated that the collision occurred more than 12 miles from the shore, in international waters. |
| | Feb 11 | (Cont'd.) However, the Soviet Union uses it's own set of rules for defining the boundary between territorial and international waters, and their rules put the collision site inside their territorial waters. |
| | Feb 11 | (Cont'd.) Both submarines were able to return to their respective bases under their own power. K-276 was fully repaired by June 1992. Commander Kremer was relieved of command.
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| 1993 | Nov 1 | Baton Rouge was placed "In Commission, In Reserve". |
| 1995 | Jan 13 | Decommissioned. |
| 1997 | Sep 30 | Baton Rouge entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., and ceased to exist on 30 September 1997.
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