Ulysses S. Grant died on 23 July 1885 in Wilton, aged 63. 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
- 1885Construction of Anfield
- from February 1885 to March 1885Panjdeh Incident
- 7 February 1885Birth of Sinclair Lewis
- from 1 July 1885 to 2 April 1908Congo Free State
- 23 July 1885Death of Ulysses S. Grant
- 11 September 1885Birth of D. H. Lawrence
- 7 October 1885Birth of Niels Bohr
- 11 October 1885Birth of François Mauriac
- 30 October 1885Birth of Ezra Pound
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- 4 June 1867Birth of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
- 1 November 1880Birth of Alfred Wegener
The era
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