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John Adams

Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)

15 dated entries naming John Adams, drawn from 12 separate years between 1636 CE and 1848 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

  • 1636The first American ancestor of John Adams, Henry Adams, emigrates to Massachusetts.source

18th century

  • 1735October 30 – John Adams, second president of the United States (d. 1826)source
  • 1765July 14 – Abigail Adams Smith, firstborn daughter of Abigail Adams and John Adams (d. 1813)source
  • 1767July 11 – John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, son of John Adams and Abigail Adams (d. 1848)source
  • 1782April 19 – John Adams secures recognition of the United States as an independent government by the Dutch Republic. During this visit, he also negotiates a loan of five million guilders, financed by Nicolaas van Staphorst and Wilhelm Willink.source
  • 1782October 18 – John Adams returns to Paris as the first United States Minister to France.source
  • 1785April 26 – John Adams is appointed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, and Thomas Jefferson as ambassador to France.source
  • 1789April 21 – John Adams takes office as the first vice president of the United States, and begins presiding over the United States Senate.source
  • 1792November 6 – The second United States presidential election is held. Incumbent President George Washington receives all 132 electoral votes for president, and incumbent Vice President John Adams is re-elected with 77 of 132 votes, with George Clinton receiving 50.source
  • 1796December 7 – The U.S. Electoral College meets to elect John Adams president of the United States.source
  • 1796November 3 – John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson, in the 1796 U.S. presidential election.source
  • 1800June 3 – U.S. President John Adams moves to Washington. Because the President's Mansion is still under construction, President Adams takes up residence at Tunnicliffe's City Hotel near the unfinished U.S. Capitol Building.source
  • 1800November 1 – U.S. President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).source

19th century

  • 1826July 4 – Former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.source
  • 1848February 23 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, son of John Adams and Abigail Adams (b. 1767)source

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