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On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in a one room log cabin in Nolin Creek, Kentucky.
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On September 9, 1836, Lincoln received his license to practice law.
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On August 3, 1846, Abraham Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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On June 26, 1857, Representative Lincoln speaks against the Dred Scott Decision in Springfield.
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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States.
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At 4:30 A.M., Confederate artillery opens fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, thus beginning the Civil War.
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On the 1st of January, 1863, President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates.
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On November 19, 1863, president Lincoln delivers the legendary Gettyburg Address at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield as a National Cemetery.
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On April 9, 1865, the Civil War ends as General Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to General Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox in Virginia.
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On April 14, 1865, Lincoln and his wife Mary see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. At about 10:13 p.m., during the third act of the play, John Wilkes Booth shoots the President in the head, and dies at 7:22 in the morning the next day.
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