89, Grover Cleveland, 22nd US President (1885-1889) was succeeded by Benjamin Harrison (1889 – 1893).
18/11/1886, Chester Alun Arthur, American Republican and 21st President from 1881 to 1885, died in New York City.
11/10/1884, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and cousin of Franklin D Roosevelt, was born in New York City.
8/5/1884, Harry S Truman, American Democrat and 33rd President, was born in Lamar, Missouri. He ordered the atom bomb to be dropped on Japan in 1945.
30/1/1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, American Democrat and 32nd President, was born near Hyde Park, New York.
19/9/1881, James Abram Garfield, US Republican and 20th President since 4/3/1881, who had been shot on 2/7/1891, died at Elberon, New Jersey. The remainder of his term was completed by Chester Arthur.
2/7/1881, James Garfield, American Republican and 22nd President, was shot by Charles Guiteau in Washington DC. He died on 19/9/1881 in Elberton, New Jersey.
4/3/1881, James Abram Garfield, Republican, became the 20th US President.
20/1/1881, King David Kalalahua of Hawaii died, age d54, and was succeeded by his 52-year sister, Queen Lydia Liliuokalani. White settlers who now owned 80% of the land in Hawaii, formed a Hawaiian League to oppose the accession of Queen Liliuokalani, and sought annexation to the USA.
11/1877, General Carleton ordered Apache Indians in Arizona off their Chiricahua Reservation at Warm Springs and on to San Carlos. Here, summer temperatures reached 40 C, and there was no game or other food. Any Indian found leaving San Carlos would be shot.
31/7/1875, Andrew Johnson, American Democrat and 17th president from 1865 to 1869, died in Carter County, Tennessee.
10/8/1874, Herbert Hoover, Republican politician and 31st US President, 1929-33, was born in West Branch, Iowa, the son of a blacksmith.
8/3/1874, Millard Fillimore, American Whig and 13th President from 1850 to 1853, died in Buffalo, New York State.
5/11/1872. Ulysses S Grant was elected President of the USA for a second term.
4/7/1872, Calvin Coolidge, American Republican and 30th President, was born in Plymouth, Vermont. He was the son of a storekeeper.
8/10/1869, Franklin Pearce, US Democrat and 14th President from 1853 to 1857, died in Concord, New Hampshire.
1/6/1868, James Buchanan, American Democrat and 15th President from 1857 to 1861, and the only bachelor President, died in Wheatland, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, aged 77.
2/11/1865, Warren Harding, American Republican and 29th President, was born near Corsica (now called Blooming Grove), Ohio, the son of a rural doctor.
15/4/1865, The Vice President, Andrew Johnson, was sworn in as President. See 14/4/1856.
14/4/1865. President Lincoln was shot by an assassin. He died the following day, 15/4/1865.The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, a failed actor, was himself shot dead on 26/4/1865. He had entered the Box Seven of Ford’s Theatre and shot the President in the back of the head with a single bullet. The audience was laughing, and few heard the shot. Booth then slashed at a soldier who rushed him, jumped on stage and shouted ‘Thus always to tyrants – the South is avenged’. Booth managed to escape the theatre, but was tracked down by police and federal agents.
President Lincoln was buried on 4/5/1865 at Springfield, Illinois, where he began his legal career and where he married.
8/11/1864. Abraham Lincoln was re-elected President of the USA for a second term. Supported by a coalition of Republicans and War Democrats, Lincoln won 55% of the vote.
2/12/1863, The Capitol Building, Washington DC, USA, was completed. It is the meeting place of Congress.
26/7/1863, Death of Sam Houston, US soldier and First President of the Republic of Texas (1836-8 and 1841-4) after whom the city is named.
24/7/1862, Martin van Buren, American Democrat and 8th President from 1837 to 1841, died in Kinderhook, New York.
18/1/1862, John Tyler, American Whig and 10th President from 1841 to 1845, died in Richmond, Virginia.
6/11/1860. Abraham Lincoln , Republican, was elected 16th President of the USA, with 39.9% of the vote; the Democratic vote was split