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The first wagon train leaves for the West from Elm Grove Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
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Robert Todd Lincoln was born in Springfield Illinois to Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln
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The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican American War and giving the US essentially what will become the Southwestern states.
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The first shot of the Civil War is fired at Fort Sumter South Carolina on April 12, 1861.
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The American Civil War is the bloodiest war ever fought on United States soil.
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Roberts father Abraham Lincoln the 16th President issues the Emancipation Proclamation which decrees that all slaves still living in the Confederate States shall be proclaimed as free peoples.
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Robert receives a commission as an Assistant Adjutant to General Grant.
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Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States and Robert's father is assassinated at Fords Theater in Washington D.C
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Robert resigns his commission at the end of the Civil War.
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Robert marries Mary Eunice Harlan.
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The 15th Amendment is ratified, guaranteeing all African-American men the right to vote.
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Robert is named as Secretary of War by President James Garfield, and after Garfields assassination he continues the post under President Chester A. Arthur
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Mary Todd Lincoln, former First Lady and mother to Robert dies.
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Robert serves as the United States Minister for The United Kingdom.
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153 Lakota Sioux and 25 U.S troops are killed at the Massacre of Wounded Knee, near Wounded Knee South Dakota.
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Robert is named President of the Pullman Palace Car Company.
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Production of the Model T began on August 12 1908 in Highland Park Michigan.
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World War I was the first global war to be fought in modern history.
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The RMS Lusitania was struck by a German torpedo off the coast of Ireland. Historians credit this action with the United States entering World War I
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Robert makes his last public appearance at the dedication ceremony in Washington D.C of his father's memorial.
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Robert Todd Lincoln dies in Manchester Vermont on July 26, 1926 at the age of 82.
