Despite different parties, beliefs, and lifestyles, all presidents have had one thing in common: the inaugural ceremony.

Donald Trump’s ceremony was held Friday, Jan. 20. In many ways, the ceremony has remained the same over time.

It always contains a speech, a ball, and a parade. In America it is a sign of democracy and demonstrates a peaceful transfer of power.

The first presidential inauguration happened in 1789 with George Washington. His celebration consisted of two ceremonies to celebrate (one in New York and one in Philadelphia). Washington was so poor that he had to borrow money to attend, according to History.com.

Washington’s ceremony also didn’t include an elegant ball. The first ball was in 1809 by James Madison.

Tickets for the ball sold for $4, opposed to Trump’s ball which had tickets that sold for up to $1 million according to CBS MoneyWatch.

Despite the high ticket prices, admission to view the swearing in ceremony has always been free.

At this ceremony, the new president always gives a speech. The shortest was Washington’s with just 135 words, compared to Trump’s 1,435 words.

The longest speech, however, goes to William Henry Harrison. Harrison spoke for two hours in 1841, delivering an 8,445 word speech.

The weather was terrible and Harrison ended up catching pneumonia from being outside, speaking for so long.

Harrison passed away exactly one month after taking office from the pneumonia he caught during his speech.

Despite many presidents giving speeches on Mar. 4, Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed the 20th amendment in 1933 which changed Mar. 4 to the current Inauguration day, Jan. 20.

Prior to the 20th amendment, there was another scheduling issue. The deeply religious Zachary Taylor didn’t want to be sworn in on a Sunday due to the Holy Sabbath. The United States couldn’t be president-less for a day so David Rice Atchison was president for Mar. 4, 1849.

Many historians argue whether or not Atchison should have been counted as the 12th president. If he was, that would make Taylor the actual 13th and Trump the 46th.

Atchison had a great sense of humor about the whole situation, with a marking on his grave stone reading “President of the United States of America for One Day.” When asked about his day in office, he said he shouldn’t be counted as the 12th president because he mostly slept all day.

Atchison’s presidency was not the only disputed issue. U.S. History teacher, Kerry Hall, who has been watching inaugurations since 1976, explained that John Roberts messed up when prompting Obama, causing him to stumble during the ceremony.

Because the oath wasn’t technically correct, it didn’t count. A private ceremony was held in the White House the next day.

Despite the minor slip up Hall said, “When Obama was first sworn in it was so different and so new and exciting to a lot of people.”

Obama ended up being sworn in four times due to this slip up and then a scheduling mistake.

Obama wasn’t the only president to not have all go as planned on Inauguration Day.

When Abraham Lincoln was sworn in for the second time, his vice president, Andrew Johnson was intoxicated.

“The inauguration went off very well except that the Vice President Elect was too drunk to perform his duties and disgraced himself and the Senate by making a drunken foolish speech,” a Senator that was present at the time wrote, “I was never so mortified in my life, had I been able to find a hole I would have dropped through it out of sight.”

Lincoln defended his vice president and said, “I have known Andrew Johnson for many years. He made a slip the other day, but you need not be scared, Andy ain’t a drunk.”

Lincoln’s loyalty is a perfect example of how the Inauguration ceremony and politics don’t always create enemies, but also friends.

Hall continued, “It’s an unappreciated tradition in our country that we peaceably transfer power from one party to the other because a lot of countries today and a lot of countries historically haven’t done that.”