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Abraham Lincoln
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- 04.11.1842
Abraham Lincoln, future US President, marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
- 16.06.1858
Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 27.02.1860
Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
- 06.11.1860
U.S. presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
- 23.02.1861
President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, DC after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 04.03.1861
Confederate States adopt "Stars and Bars" flag, on the same day that Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th President of the USA.
- 04.03.1861
President Abraham Lincoln opens Government Printing Office.
- 27.04.1861
President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
- 21.10.1861
American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff - Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
- 23.10.1861
President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
- 01.11.1861
American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George McClellan as commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.
- 21.12.1861
Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
- 15.05.1862
President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture (later renamed USDA).
- 20.05.1862
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
- 02.09.1862
American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
- 05.11.1862
American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
- 14.11.1862
American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
- 31.12.1862
American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two).
- 26.02.1863
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the National Currency Act into law.
- 26.02.1863
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the National Currency Act into law.
- 03.10.1863
Thanksgiving Day declared as the last Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.
- 19.11.1863
American Civil War: Union President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 30.06.1864
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation."
- 08.11.1864
U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
- 04.04.1865
American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
- 11.04.1865
Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
- 14.04.1865
President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next day.
- 14.04.1865
President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth; he dies the next day.
- 15.04.1865
Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth.
- 17.04.1865
Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
- 26.04.1865
Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in a barn in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett.
- 04.05.1865
Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois, three weeks after his assassination.
- 07.07.1865
American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.
- 12.02.1892
Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States.
- 01.05.2003
2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, President George W. Bush declares "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on board USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California.
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