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Historical Timeline of Abraham Lincoln

By ahgrove

  • Abraham Lincoln is born

    Abraham Lincoln is born in a one-room log cabin on Nolin Creek in Kentucky.

  • Young Abraham attends a log school house.

  • Nancy Hanks Lincoln (his mother) dies of "milk sickness"

  • Abraham's father, Thomas, marries a widow, Sarah Bush Johnston, and becomes Abraham's Stepmother.

    Sarah Bush Johnston has three children.

  • Abe makes his first-ever political speech

    Abe and his family begin a 200-mile journey to Illinois where they settle on uncleared land along the Sangamon River, near Decatur. Abe makes his first-ever political speech in favor of improving navigation on the Sangamon River.

  • Abe is elected to the Illinois General Assembly as a member of the Whig Party

  • Abe is re-elected to the Illinois General Assembly and by now is a leader of the Whig Party

  • Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield

  • Lincoln's first child is born (Robert Todd Lincoln)

  • Lincoln is unsuccessful in his try for the Whig nomination for U.S. Congress

  • Lincoln is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

  • Abe has another son- William Wallace Lincoln (Willie)

  • Lincoln delivers an impassioned speech on slavery in New Haven, Connecticut.

  • Lincoln is nominated to the be Republican candidate for President of the United States

  • Lincoln is elected as 16th President of the United States, and is the first Republican

  • Lincoln leaves by train for Washington, D.C.

    During the train trip, he is warned about a possible assassination attempt.

  • Inauguration ceremonies are help in Washington, D.C. President Lincoln delivers his First Inaugural Address.

  • At 4:30am, Confederate artillery opens fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The Civil War begins.

  • Lincoln signs a law freeing slaves being used by the Confederates in their war effort.

  • The President issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves.

  • President Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates.

  • President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.

  • Abe Lincoln is nominated for a second term as president by a coalition of Republicans and War Democrats.

  • Abraham Lincoln is re-elected as President

  • President Lincoln delivers his Second Inaugural Address in Washington, D.C.

  • A kidnap plot by John Wilkes Booth fails when Lincoln doesn't arrive for a visit to the Soldier's Home.

  • President Lincoln makes his last public speech which focuses on the problems of reconstruction

  • Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth

    Lincoln and his wife Mary see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. About 10:13pm, during the third act of the play, John Wilkes Booth shoots the President in the head. Doctors attend to the President in the theater and then move him to a house across the street. He never regains consciousness.

  • President Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning

  • John Wilkes Booth is shot and killen in a tobacco barn in Virginia.

  • Abraham Lincoln is laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery, outside Springfeild, Illinois.

  • Slavery is abolished.