Franklin Pierce was born on 23 November 1804 in Hillsborough. The 14th President of the United States, Pierce was a New Hampshire Democrat who won the 1852 election as a compromise candidate, at 48 the youngest elected president to that time. Shortly before his inauguration his young son was killed in a railway accident, which left him and his wife in deep grief. His administration made the Gadsden Purchase of land from Mexico, but his support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which opened new territories to the possibility of slavery, led to violence in Kansas and divided the country. His party refused to renominate him in 1856, and he is often counted among the weaker presidents.
Before and after
- from 18 May 1804 to 7 July 1815First French Empire
- 4 July 1804Birth of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 28 July 1804Birth of Ludwig Feuerbach
- from 11 August 1804 to 8 June 1867Austrian Empire
- 23 November 1804Birth of Franklin Pierce
- 21 December 1804Birth of Benjamin Disraeli
- 1805Rise of Muhammad Ali dynasty
- 1805Peace of Pressburg
- from 1805 to 1806War of the Third Coalition
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