Historian Craft: Lincoln - Birth to Death

By rsb9
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    Lincoln: Life to Death

    Or thereabouts.

  • Licoln: Birth

    Abraham Lincoln born to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln in Hogdenville, Kentucky.

  • World Events: War of 1812 ends

    Hostilities between the US, Canada, and British Empire cease.

  • World Events: Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is first published

  • World Events: Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on St Helena Island

  • World Events: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed

  • World Events: Sumatra is hit by a magnitude 8.7 earthquake

  • Lincoln: Election to the Illinois House of Representatives

    Serving his first term.

  • World Events: The Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp, is issued by the British Empire

  • Lincoln: Election to the Illinois House of Representatives

    Elected for his fourth term.

  • Lincoln: Election to US House of Representatives

  • World Events: Melville's "Moby Dick" is first published in the US

  • Lincoln: "House Divided" speech

    "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."

  • Lincoln: Elected to Presidency, First Term

  • World Events: South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • World Events: American Civil War begins

    First shot in the American Civil War fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

  • Lincoln: Emancipation Proclamation put into effect

    Contrary to popular belief the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the ten Confederate states, while slaves in Union states were still to be held as property. Regardless of the Proclamation many "freed" Confederate slaves that were encountered by Union troops were still considered property when taken into account and afforded little of the rights they believed they were entitled to. Also halts European interferance/assistance with Confederate states.

  • Lincoln: Gettysburg Address

    Lincoln's speech to dedicate the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

  • Lincoln: Elected to Presidency, Second Term

  • Lincoln: Death via assassination

    Lincoln killed by J.W. Booth at Ford's Theatre production of "Our American Cousin."

  • World Events: Civil War ends officially

    President Andrew Johnson signs a "Proclamation—Declaring that Peace, Order, Tranquillity, and Civil Authority Now Exists in and Throughout the Whole of the United States of America" effectively ending the American Civil War.