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Abraham Lincoln is born in a one room log cabin in Nolin Creek, Kentucky.
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Lincoln attends school on and off for the next 7 years.
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Abe, now 19, takes a flatboat containing produce down to New Orleans. While he is there he observes his first slave auction.
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Lincoln makes his first-ever political speech in favor of improving navigation on the Sangamon River
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Lincoln becomes a canidate for the Illinois General Assembly, but loses the election. He then enlists in the army for 3 years.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected to the Illinois General Assembly as a member of the Whig Party. He also begins to study law.
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Lincoln is now the leader of the Whig Party, and has received his license to practice Law
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Lincoln becomes the Whig Floor Leader in the Senate, and is admitted practice in the U.S. States Circuit Court.
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Abe is elected tp the U.S. House of Representatives
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Lincoln earns the nickname "Honest Abe" because of his reputation as an outstanding lawyer.
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Lincoln is nominated to the Republican Senate representing Illinois.
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Abraham Lincoln is nominated to the be Republican candidate for President of the United States. He opposes Northern Democrat, Stephen A. Douglas.
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Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States, and is the first Republican
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South Carolina secedes from the Union
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At 4:30 am, Confederate forces opens fire on Fort Sumner in Charleston Harbor beginning the Civil War.
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Lincoln approves the Federal Homestead Law giving 160 acres of land to anyone who will claim the land and farm it for 5 years. Thousands then cross the Mississippi River to tame the Wild West
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Abe issues the Emanicpation Proclaimation, freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates.
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Confederate defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg marks the turning point of the war
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President Lincoln delivers the Gettyburg Address at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield as a national cemetery
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Atlanta is captured by Sherman's army. Later, Lincoln approves Sherman's "March to the Sea"
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Abe is re-elected as President, defeating Democrat George B. McCellan
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A kidnap plot by John Wilkes Booth fails when Lincoln does not arrive for a visit at a soldiers' home
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Lincoln and his wife attend the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. During the 3d act, Booth shoots Lincoln in the back of the head.
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Lincoln dies at 7:22 am
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Jihn Wilkes Booth is captured and killed in a tobbaco barn in Virginia
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The 13th Amendment is passed ending slavery
