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U.S. territorial extent in 1860. April 3, 1860 – Pony Express begins. 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.
1860 1860 Paiute War United States: Paiute tribes 1860 1861 First Taranaki War Second Māori War Part of New Zealand Wars: Māori iwi (tribes) Māori King Movement. Government of New Zealand. British Settlers 1860 1862 Colombian Civil War (1860–62) Granadine Confederation: Federal State of Cauca: 1860 1890 Barasa–Ubaidat War: Ubaidat Tribe ...
May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784) June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815) July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (born 1800) September 12 – William Walker, filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua, executed (born 1824)
Image credits: undiscoveredh1story Nowadays, we consume tons of visual media. Videos, photos, cinema, and TV can help us learn new things every day. However, they can just as easily misinform us.
The American Civil War was the first war in history whose intimate reality would be brought home to the public, not only in newspaper depictions, album cards and cartes-de-visite, but in a popular new 3D format called a "stereograph," "stereocard" or "stereoview." Millions of these cards were produced and purchased by a public eager to ...
The Crimean War: April 1855 Roger Fenton: Crimea [s 2] Valley of the Shadow of Death: 23 April 1855 Roger Fenton Sevastopol, Crimea Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the ...
1860: Colombia, Bay of Panama: From September 27 to October 8, naval forces landed to protect American interests during a revolution. 1861–1865: American Civil War: A major war between the United States (the Union) and eleven Southern states which declared that they had a right to secession and formed the Confederate States of America.
The war contributed to the popular image of Theodore Roosevelt as a war hero and advanced his career, in 1901 became the 26th president of the United States; Spain sells to Germany its last colonies in the Pacific in 1899; Philippine–American War (1899–1902) Location: Philippines U.S. soldiers during the Battle of Manila. 1899–1902 United ...