Andrew Johnson was born on 29 December 1808 in Raleigh. The 17th President of the United States, Johnson was a self-taught tailor from North Carolina who rose to become a Tennessee senator and the only Southern senator to remain loyal to the Union. He became Lincoln's vice president in 1865 and president after Lincoln's assassination. His lenient approach to the defeated South and opposition to civil rights for freed slaves put him at odds with the Republican Congress, which overrode his vetoes and passed the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1868 the House impeached him, and the Senate acquitted him by a single vote. His administration did purchase Alaska from Russia in 1867. He later returned to the Senate.
Before and after
- from 25 September 1808 to 29 September 1833Spanish American wars of independence
- from 7 November 1808 to 9 July 1809Spanish reconquest of Santo Domingo
- from 10 November 1808 to 11 November 1808Battle of Espinosa
- from 20 December 1808 to 20 February 1809Second Siege of Zaragoza
- 29 December 1808Birth of Andrew Johnson
- 1809Symphony No. 5
- 1809Lamarck proposes the first theory of evolution
- 4 January 1809Birth of Louis Braille
- 15 January 1809Birth of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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