History Timeline project

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  • The Pony Express was Founded

    The Pony Express was Founded

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  • Abraham Lincoln is elected president

    Source (For All 1860 Events)

  • The Crittendedn Compromise was Reached

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

    South Carolina secedes from the Union

  • Mississippi secedes from the Union

    Mississippi secedes from the Union

  • Florida secedes from the Union

  • Georgia secedes from the Union

    Source (For all 1861 Events)

  • Texas secedes from the Union

  • The Civil War Starts

  • Arkansas secedes from the Union

  • Tennessee secedes from the Union

  • The First Battle of Bull Run

  • George B. McClellan is appointed as commander of the Union Army

  • Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederacy

  • The First Ironclad warship (the USS Monitor) ls launched

  • Ulyssess S. Grant captures Fort Henry, Tennessee

    Source (For the 1862 Year Events)

  • Jefferson Davis Is Offical Inaugurated as the President of the Confederacy

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  • The Battle of Shiloh Begins

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  • Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into effect

  • Robert E. Lee takes control of the Northern Virginia Army

  • George B. McClellan is removed from commander of the Union Army by Abraham Lincoln

  • The Battle of Memphis starts

  • David G. Farragut bcomes Admiral of the US Navy

    Sources (For 1862 Events)

  • The 2nd Battle of Bull Run Starts

  • Arizona is Orgainzed into a US Territory

  • The Enrollment Act is Signed

  • The Battle of Chancellorsville Begins

  • The First African American Regiment Fights for the Union

  • West Virginia is admitted as a free state.

  • The Battle of Gettysberg Begins

  • The Battle of Vicksberg Starts

  • Robert E. Lee Tries to Resign After the Loss at Gettysberg

  • The Battle of Lawrence Starts

  • Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysberg Address

  • The First Union Prisoners arrive at Andersonville, Georgia

  • Abraham Lincoln Promotes Ulysses S. Grant as Commander of all of the Union Armies

  • The U.S Government Passes the Coinage Act

  • The U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act

  • Montana is Organized as a US Territory

  • Confederate Spy Belle Boyd is arrested

  • An assault is launched on Atlanta, Georgia

  • Nevada is Established as a Free State

    Source (For 1864 Events)
  • Abraham Lincoln gets re-elected in the election of 1864.

    Abraham Lincoln gets re-elected in the election of 1864.

    Abraham Lincoln wins the election of 1864 with 2,218,3388 of the popular vote, just over George B. McClellan, with 1,812,807 of them. However, in electorial votes, Lincoln held 212 electorial votes, while McClellan only had 21. 80 electorial votes, however, belong to Southern States, and thus did not count.

  • William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea Begins

  • The U.S. Congress allows the Freedmen's Bureau to be Formed

  • The Civil War Ends

    Source (For the 1865 Dates)

  • Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated at Ford's Theather

  • Andrew Johnson Becomes the 15th President of the US

  • John Wilkes Booth is killed

  • Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Troops

    Source (For 1865 Posts)

  • The U.S. Secret Service is Formed

  • Major Henry Wirz was Executed for War Crimes in Andersonville, Georgia

  • The 13th Amendment is added to the United States Constitution

  • The Ku Klux Klan is Formed

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was Passed

  • The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is formed

  • The Memphis Riots Start

  • The U.S. Congress appointed the minting of the nickel

  • The Great Fire of Portland, Maine occurs

  • The Judicial Circuits Acts is Passed

  • Tennessee becomes the first state to be readmitted into the Union

  • The Metric Act of 1866 Is Passed

  • Andrew Johnson starts his "Swing Around the Circle" speaking tour

  • The Republican Party Wins most of the House of Representatives Spots

  • African-Americans are Granted the Right to Vote in the District of Columbia

  • West Virginia University is Established

  • Nebraska is admitted as a state to the US

  • The University of Illinois is Established

  • Alaska is Purchased From Russia

    Source (For 1867 Posts)

  • The First Elevated Railroad is Created

  • The Harvard School of Dential Medicine is Established

  • The Reconstruction Acts Were Passed

  • The US takes control of Midway Island

  • The Medicine Lodge Treaty is Signed