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April 3 – The Pony Express begins its first run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. May 1 – A Chondrite type meteorite falls to earth in Muskingum County, Ohio near the town of New Concord. May 6 – The Paiute War begins as Northern Paiutes raided Williams Station in Utah Territory.
December 20, 1860 - South Carolina responds to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President by being the first southern state to secede from the Union. 1861 February 4, 1861 - In Montgomery, Alabama, the convention to form the Confederated States of America opens.
November 6 – 1860 United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln elected president and Hannibal Hamlin vice president with only 39% of the vote in a four-man race. December 18 – Crittenden Compromise fails. December 20 – President Buchanan fires his cabinet. December 20 – South Carolina secedes from the Union.
- February 27, 1860: Abraham Lincoln, a lawyer from Springfield, Illinois, gave a speech at Cooper Union in New York City. Lincoln delivered a forceful and well-reasoned argument against the spread of enslavement and became an overnight star and a leading candidate for the upcoming presidential election.
- March 4, 1861: Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the president of the United States. April 12, 1861: In the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, Fort Sumter was attacked by Confederate guns.
- May 2, 1862: Death of writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden. September 17, 1862: The Battle of Antietam was fought in western Maryland.
- January 1, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. July 1-3, 1863: The epic Battle of Gettysburg was fought in Pennsylvania.
Dec 1, 2017 · The main issue of the election was slavery and states’ rights. Lincoln emerged victorious and became the 16th President of the United States during a national crisis that would tear states...
Highlights. Events. Birthdays. Deaths. Weddings. Jan 1 Slavery abolished in the Dutch East Indies for areas under direct rule. Jeanie Deans. Jan 9 Dion Boucicault 's stage drama "Jeanie Deans" opens at Laura Keene's Theatre, NYC. Actor and Playwright Dion Boucicault. Jan 20 Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes.
Apr 15, 2019 · The time between 1851 and 1860 was one of great upheaval in United States history. Early 1850s: Treaties and Land From Mexico The early part of the decade began with a treaty signed with the Native American Sioux tribe and ended with Mexico selling the U.S. land along its southern border for $15 million.
