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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861, until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.
The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began March 4, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States, and ended upon his death on April 15, 1865, 42 days into his second term.
November 6 – 1860 United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln elected president and Hannibal Hamlin vice president with only 39% of the vote in a four-man race. December 18 – Crittenden Compromise fails. December 20 – President Buchanan fires his cabinet. December 20 – South Carolina secedes from the Union
October 3 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November. October 5 – The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road starts operations in Brooklyn, New York ; making it the oldest right-of-way on the New York City Subway , the largest rapid transit system in the ...
The Territory of Dakota is organized, March 2, 1861; Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the United States on March 4, 1861; A rump government declares itself the Confederate Territory of Arizona on March 16, 1861; American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 Battle of Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861 – April 13, 1861
June 5 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law allowing for the appointment of diplomats to Liberia and Haiti, the first time Congress had recognized a Black government. [2] June 6 – American Civil War: First Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates
It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1865, to March 4, 1867, during Abraham Lincoln's final month as president, and the first two years of the administration of his successor, Andrew Johnson. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1860 United States census. Both chambers had a Republican majority.
Early in his presidency, Hay and Nicolay requested and received permission from Lincoln to write his biography. [1] In the first years after Lincoln's death, Hay and Nicolay were not encouraged to publish such a work—Representative Isaac Newton Arnold, a Lincoln supporter, had quickly published a substantial Lincoln biography, and publishers were not eager for another.