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President of the United States

head of state and head of government of the United States of America

71 dated entries naming President of the United States, drawn from 56 separate years between 1751 CE and 2025 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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18th century

  • 1751March 16 – James Madison, fourth President of the United States (d. 1836)source
  • 1767July 11 – John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, son of John Adams and Abigail Adams (d. 1848)source
  • 1784November 24 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)source
  • 1790March 29 – John Tyler, tenth President of the United States (d. 1862)source
  • 1791April 23 – James Buchanan, American lawyer, politician, and 15th President of the United States. (d. 1868)source
  • 1800January 7 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)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

  • 1804July 27 – The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reforms the way that candidates for President and Vice President are chosen, is ratified by Tennessee, removing doubt surrounding adoption.source
  • 1804November 23 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)source
  • 1808December 29 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)source
  • 1822October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)source
  • 1829October 5 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)source
  • 1831November 19 – James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)source
  • 1848February 23 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, son of John Adams and Abigail Adams (b. 1767)source
  • 1850July 9 – Zachary Taylor, 65, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)source
  • 1856February 18 – The American Know Nothing Party convenes in Philadelphia to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.source
  • 1856November 4 – 1856 United States presidential election: Democrat James Buchanan defeats former President Millard Fillmore, representing a coalition of Know Nothings and Whigs, and John C. Frémont of the fledgling Republican Party, to become the 15th President of the United States.source
  • 1862July 24 – Martin Van Buren, 79, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)source
  • 1865April 14 – Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: President of the United States Abraham Lincoln is shot while attending an evening performance of the farce Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.source
  • 1868February 24 – Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: Three days after his action to dismiss United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, the United States House of Representatives votes 126–47 in favor of a resolution to impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, the first of three Presidents to be impeached by the full House. Johnson is later acquitted by the United States Senate.source
  • 1868June 1 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)source
  • 1868May 16, May 26 – President Andrew Johnson is twice acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.source
  • 1869October 8 – Franklin Pierce, 64, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)source
  • 1870March 31 – James M. Cox, Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920 (d. 1957)source
  • 1872May 10 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States, although she is a year too young to qualify and does not appear on the ballot.source
  • 1874March 8 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)source
  • 1881September 19 – James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)source
  • 1886June 2 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House (Washington, D.C.), becoming the only President of the United States to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.source
  • 1886November 18 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)source
  • 1888June 19 – In Chicago, the Republican Convention opens at the Auditorium Building. Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton win the nominations for President and Vice President of the United States, respectively.source
  • 1888September 8 – In a letter accepting renomination as President of the United States, Grover Cleveland declares the Chinese "impossible of assimilation with our people and dangerous to our peace and welfare".source
  • 1889February 22 – President Grover Cleveland signs the Enabling Act of 1889, admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.source
  • 1893January 17 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)source

20th century

  • 1901September 14 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1843)source
  • 1917May 18 – WWI: The Selective Service Act passes the United States Congress, giving the President the power of conscription.source
  • 1922February 8 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.source
  • 1922June 14 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.source
  • 1923December 6 – Calvin Coolidge addresses the United States Congress in the first radio broadcast from a President of the U.S.source
  • 1924February 22 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.source
  • 1930June 17 – President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law, implementing protectionist trade policies in the United States. It has the incidental effect of defining an antique as older than 1830.source
  • 1939August 2 – The Einstein–Szilard letter is signed by Albert Einstein, advising President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt of the potential use of uranium to construct an atomic bomb. It is delivered on October 11 and leads to the first meeting on October 21 of the Advisory Committee on Uranium.source
  • 1941January 6 – During his State of the Union address, President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt presents his Four Freedoms, as fundamental global human rights.source
  • 1943November 22–26 – WWII: Cairo Conference ("Sextant") – President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Chairman of the National Government of China Chiang Kai-shek meet at Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan in the Pacific War.source
  • 1945February 4–11 – WWII: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin hold the Yalta Conference.source
  • 1951February 27 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.source
  • 1957July 15 – James M. Cox, Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920 (b. 1870)source
  • 1960May 16 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the U-2 reconnaissance plane flights over the Soviet Union, thus aborting their summit meeting scheduled for Paris this year.source
  • 1960November 8 – 1960 United States presidential election: In a close race, Democratic U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is elected over Republican U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon, to become (at 43) the second youngest man to serve as President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.source
  • 1960October 14 – Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps of the United States.source
  • 1961March 29 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections.source
  • 1988May 29–June 3 – The Moscow Summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev takes place, where the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was finalized.source
  • 1991February 27 – Gulf War: U.S. President Bush declares victory over Iraq and orders a cease-fire. U.S. troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf on March 10.source
  • 1996August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for vice president, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.source
  • 1998December 19 – The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles of impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate, making him the second president to be impeached in U.S. history.source

21st century

  • 2008November 4 – 2008 United States presidential election: Democratic U.S. Senator Barack Obama defeats Republican candidate John McCain and is elected the 44th President of the United States, making him the first African-American to be elected to the office.source
  • 2008October 3 – 2008 financial crisis: U.S. President George W. Bush signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law, creating a 700 billion dollar Treasury fund to purchase failing bank assets.source
  • 2009January 20 – Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, becoming the first African-American to hold the office.source
  • 2012November 6 – 2012 United States presidential election: Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States, defeating his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.source
  • 2014April 28 – United States President Barack Obama's new economic sanctions against Russia go into effect, targeting companies and individuals close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.source
  • 2016November 8 – 2016 United States presidential election: Businessman and television personality Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States in a surprise upset against his opponent, former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton.source
  • 2017January 21 – Millions of people worldwide join the Women's March following the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States. 420 marches were reported in the U.S. and 168 in other countries, becoming the largest single-day protest in American history at the time.source
  • 2018March 9 – President of the United States Donald Trump accepts an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a meeting in May to discuss the denuclearisation of North Korea.source
  • 2019December 18 – The U.S. House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Trump, making him the third president to be impeached in the nation's history.source
  • 2019February 27–28 – The 2019 North Korea–United States summit is held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.source
  • 2020April 14 – U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the U.S. will suspend funding towards the World Health Organization (WHO) pending an investigation of its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship with China.source
  • 2020January 16 – The first impeachment trial of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, begins in the U.S. Senate. He was acquitted on February 5.source
  • 20202020 United States presidential election: The election of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States and Kamala Harris as the 49th Vice President of the United States is called by many news media organizations after remaining vote counts (November 7) come in from key states delayed by an influx of mail-in ballots caused by the pandemic, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump.source
  • 2021January 6 – Supporters of US President Donald Trump attack the US Capitol, disrupting certification of the 2020 presidential election, and forcing both houses of Congress to evacuate. Five people die during the ensuing riot. The event is classified as a domestic terrorist attack, and draws international condemnation.source
  • 2024July 13 – While campaigning for the 2024 United States presidential election, former President Donald Trump is shot in the right ear in an assassination attempt at a rally he held near Butler, Pennsylvania.source
  • 2024May 30 – Former United States President Donald Trump is found guilty on 34 counts in his hush money trial, the first time any American president had been found guilty of a crime.source
  • 2025February 28 – A meeting between U.S. president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes place at the White House. Trump and V.P. JD Vance sharply criticise Zelenskyy, raising questions about support for Ukraine, a proposed end to the war, and the country's future in general.source

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