Timeline March 1869

Events in March 1869 4

• 1803 – 1869 Hector Berlioz Romantic orchestral innovator French Romantic composer who revolutionised orchestration with his Symphonie fantastique and expanded the scope of the orchestra to unprecedented scale.
• 1865 – 1869 A. Johnson presidency 17th President — 1865 to 1869 Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency on April 15, 1865 after Lincoln's assassination. His lenient Reconstruction policies clashed with Congress, leading to his impeachment in 1868. He was acquitted by one vote in the Senate.
• 1869 – 1877 Grant presidency 18th President — 1869 to 1877 Ulysses S. Grant served as the 18th President from March 4, 1869 to March 4, 1877. He vigorously enforced Reconstruction and civil rights for Black Americans, but his administration was marred by corruption scandals.
• 1869 Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated as US president Civil War general becomes eighteenth US president Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in as the eighteenth President of the United States, having led Union forces to victory in the Civil War four years earlier. His administration oversaw early Reconstruction policy in the postwar South. He was inaugurated on the steps of the US Capitol.