Millard Fillmore died on 8 March 1874 in Buffalo, aged 74. The 13th President of the United States, Fillmore was a New York lawyer and Whig politician who served as Zachary Taylor's vice president and took office when Taylor died in July 1850. He supported the Compromise of 1850, a package of laws meant to settle disputes over slavery in the new territories, and signed the Fugitive Slave Act, which was bitterly opposed in the North and split his party. In foreign affairs he sent Commodore Matthew Perry on the expedition that opened Japan to Western trade. He failed to win the Whig nomination in 1852 and ran again in 1856 for the nativist American Party, the Know Nothings, without success.
Before and after
- 11 October 1873League of the Three Emperors
- 17 November 1873Founding of Budapest
- 1874Founding of Universal Postal Union
- 25 January 1874Birth of William Somerset Maugham
- 8 March 1874Death of Millard Fillmore
- from 15 April 1874 to 15 May 1874Brooks-Baxter War
- 25 April 1874Birth of Guglielmo Marconi
- May 1874Japanese invasion of Taiwan
- 10 August 1874Birth of Herbert Hoover
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