Looking back: US presidential inaugurations

The second inauguration for Ulysses S Grant, centre, as he takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Salmon P Chase on the east portico of the Capitol building in Washington DC, 4 March 1873. Photograph: AP

18 March 1861: President Lincoln’s inaugural address.

3 March 1913: The new president - Dr Woodrow Wilson takes the oath.

The inauguration of Benjamin Harrison as he takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller on the east portico of the Capitol building in Washington, 4 March 1889. Photograph: AP

22 February 1933: Film stars cross the US by train for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration.

21 January 1941: President Roosevelt takes office for the third time.

20 January 1961: Mr Kennedy sets his sights - 35th President of the United States. JFK’s inauguration speech: 50 years on.

President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address after taking the oath of office at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., 20 January 1961. Photograph: AP

10 August 1974: Honest Gerald spreads a little sunshine. After Richard Nixon’s resignation, vice-president Gerald Ford’s inauguration takes place in the East Room of the Whitehouse.

21 January 1981: Ronald Reagan’s first inauguration - second billing as Iran hostages fly to freedom.

The Guardian, 21 January 1981.

20 January 2005: George W. Bush sworn in for second term. The inauguration speech.

20 January 2009: Barack Obama inauguration - Let the remaking of America begin today. The inaugural address in full.

Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th US president as his wife Michelle Obama holds the Lincoln Bible at the US Capitol in Washington DC, January 20, 2009. Photograph: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images

12 February 2013: The state of our union is… dumber - how the linguistic standard of the presidential address has declined.

28 December 2015: ‘Performing is a political statement’: who will play Donald Trump’s inauguration?