Franklin Pierce Timeline: Presidential Timeline of Important Events |
| 1853 | His inauguration as 14th President of the United States |
| 1853 | The Apache Wars (1849 -1924) continued |
| 1853 | The Walker War (1853–1854) with the Ute Indians erupts in Utah over slavery among the Native Indians. Wakara (Walker) leads the Utes in a series of raids on Mormon settlements |
| 1853 | American inventor Elisha Otis established a company for manufacturing elevators |
| 1853 | The Gadsden Purchase, negotiated by James Gadsden, is signed in which the United States acquires more than 30,000 sq. miles of new territory in southwest Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million. |
| 1854 | February 13, 1854: Matthew Perry arrives in Japan |
| 1854 | The Sioux Wars (1854 - 1890) break out in South Dakota, Minnesota and Wyoming. Their leaders included Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull |
| 1854 | February 28 1854: The Black Warrior Affair (involving an American Merchant ship in Havana, Cuba), inflamed diplomatic relationships between the United States and Spain |
| 1854 | March 31, 1854: Commodore Matthew Perry negotiates the Treaty of Kanagawa that opens US trade with Japan |
| 1854 | The Kansas- Nebraska Act in which newly formed territories could decide whether slavery would be allowed in their new state when they applied for statehood |
| 1854 | Popular Sovereignty and Slavery was used a pre-Civil War political doctrine |
| 1854 | 1854 -1861: Bleeding Kansas - A series of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery factions that took place in Kansas Territory |
| 1854 | October 1854: The Ostend Manifesto a secret document proposing the annexation of Cuba from Spain by proslavery diplomats that led to huge controversy between the northern and southern states |
| 1855 | Additional conflicts with Native American erupted with the Yakima War (1855–1858), the Puget Sound War (1855–1856) and the Third Seminole War (1855–1858) |
| 1855 | Henry Bessemer invented a process to create steel from iron which produced steel cheaply and efficiently |
| 1857 | His presidency and term in office ends. The next US President was James Buchanan |
Franklin Pierce Timeline of important Events |