Ulysses S. Grant was born on 27 April 1822 in Point Pleasant. The 18th President of the United States, Grant rose from an obscure background to become the commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War. His victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Vicksburg and Chattanooga led President Lincoln to place him in overall command, and in April 1865 he accepted Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. As president from 1869 to 1877 he supported Reconstruction, enforced civil rights laws against the Ku Klux Klan and backed the Fifteenth Amendment, but his administration was damaged by corruption scandals. Dying of throat cancer, he completed his memoirs, which were praised and sold well.
Before and after
- 1822Chios massacre
- 1822Invention of difference engine
- from 18 February 1822 to 8 March 1824Brazilian War of Independence
- from April 1822 to September 1823Royalist War
- 27 April 1822Birth of Ulysses S. Grant
- 24 May 1822Battle of Pichincha
- 20 July 1822Birth of Gregor Mendel
- from 7 September 1822 to 15 November 1889Empire of Brazil
- 27 September 1822Champollion deciphers the hieroglyphs
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- 4 June 1867Birth of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
- 1 November 1880Birth of Alfred Wegener
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The era
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