Abraham Lincoln

By bethany.wood

  • Born

  • Lincoln is elected to the Illinois Gerneral Assembly

    1834 August 4: Lincoln is elected to the Illinois General Assembly

  • Lincoln receives his law license

  • Abe marries Mary Todd in Springfield

  • Robert Todd Lincoln Born

  • Edward Baker Lincoln is born

  • William Wallace Lincoln is born " also called willie"

  • Thomas Lincoln is born "also called tad"

  • Nominated to be the Republican candidate for President of the United States

  • November 6: Abraham Lincoln is elected as 16th U.S. president

  • President Lincoln deliverd his First Inaugural Address

  • Attack on Fort Sumter - the start of the Civil War

  • President Lincoln and his wife go to Ford's Theater to see a play.

    During the third act of the play John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head at 10:13 p.m.

  • President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning

    Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president

  • Abraham Lincoln is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery

    outside Springfield, Illinois.