n of a member of Congress and grandson of the 9th President.
19/11/1831, James Garfield, American Republican and 20th President, was born near Orange, Ohio.
4/7/1831 James Monroe, 5th US President from 1817 to 1825, died in New York City.
5/10/1830, Chester Arthur, American Republican and 21st President, was born at Fairfield, Vermont, the son of a Baptist minister.
4/7/1826, Thomas Jefferson, third US President from 1801 to 1809, died and, aged 83. He was buried near Charlottesville, Virginia.
9/2/1825, John Quincy Adams was elected President of the USA, defeating Andrew Adams and ending a 2-month impasse.
4/10/1822, Rutherford Hayes, USA Republican and 19th President, was born in Delaware, Ohio, son of a farmer.
6/12/1820. Monroe was re-elected President of the USA with an overwhelming majority.
9/12/1818, Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died aged 34. In 1819 his father, Thomas Lincoln married Sarah Bush Johnston.
4/12/1816. President Monroe, having served as US Secretary of State under President Madison, was elected to succeed him. See 2/12/1823.
4/3/1809. Madison was elected President of the USA.
12/2/1809. Abraham Lincoln was born on a farm in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
29/12/1808, Andrew Johnson, American Democrat and 17th President, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, the son of an inn porter.
3/6/1808, Jefferson Davis, American President of the Confederate Sates during the Civil War, was born in Fairview, Kentucky.
23/11/1804, Franklin Pierce, American Democrat and 14th President, was born at Hillsborough, New Hampshire.
4/3/1801, Thomas Jefferson became 3rd US President.
7/1/1800, Millard Fillimore, American Whig and 13th President, was born in Summerhill, New York State, the son of a farmer.
14/12/1799. George Washington, 1st president of the USA from 1789 to 1797, died in Mount Vernon, on the south bank of the Potomac in Virginia, aged 67. See 30/4/1789.
4/3/1797, John Adams became the 2nd US President.
17/9/1796, George Washington gave his farewell address as president of the USA.
5/12/1792. George Washington was re-elected President of the USA.
23/4/1791, James Buchanan, Democrat and 15th US President, was born in Stony Batter near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, the son of a farmer.
29/3/1790, John Tyler, American Whig and 10th President, was born in Greenway, Virginia.
30/4/1789. General George Washington inaugurated as first president of the United States, on the balcony of New York City’s federal Hall. John Adams was installed as Vice-President (see 7/1/1789 and 17/3/1776). The United States was federated on 4/3/1789.
24/11/1784, Zachary Taylor, American Whig and 12th President, was born in Orange County, Virginia.
5/12/1782, Martin van Buren, US Democrat and 8th President, was born in Kinderhook, New York State, the son of a farmer.
9/2/1773, William Henry Harrison, American Whig and 9th President, was born in Berkeley in Charles City County, Virginia.
11/7/1767, John Quincy Adams, 6th American President, was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, son of John Adams, 2nd President.
15/3/1767, Andrew Jackson, American Democrat and 7th President from 1828 to retirement in 1837, was born in the Waxhaws district of South Carolina, son of Irish immigrants.
28/4/1758, James Monroe, American Republican and 5th President, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
16/3/1751, James Madison, American Republican and 4th President, was born in Port Conway, Virginia, the first of 12 children.
13/4/1743, Thomas Jefferson, 3rd American President, was born in Shadwell, Virginia, son of a civil engineer.
30/10/1735, John Adams, American Federalist and 2nd President, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, the son of a farmer.
Appendix 4 - Alaska
28/8/2015, McKinley National Park, USA, was renamed ‘Denali’.
2/12/1980, McKinley National Park, USA, (now Denali), was enlarged to 15,000 square miles.
28/7/1977, First oil through the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline reached Valdez, Alaska.
22/6/1977. The 7,000 mile Alaska Oil Pipeline opened.
31/5/1977, The Trans-Alaska Pipeline was completed.
9/3/1975, Construction of the Trans-Alaskan