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Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks marry in Kentucky.
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Lincoln's sister Sarah was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
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Abraham Lincoln in Hardin County Kentucky. His birthday is known as Lincoln Day.
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Lincoln's little brother Thomas dies at infancy.
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The family moves to Perry County, Indiana.
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Lincoln's mom, Nancy Lincoln (Hanks), dies and was buried in Spence County, Indiana.
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Abraham's father, Thomas Lincoln, marries again. This time to Sarah Bush Johnson.
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Lincoln's sister Sarah marries Aaron Grigsby at the age of 18.
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Sarah dies in childbirth at the age of 20.
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Lincoln and his father moved to Illinois, near Decatur. Lincoln gives his first political speech in favor of improving navigation on the Sangamon River.
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Lincoln moves to New Salem, Illinois and works as a clerk in the village store.
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In March: Lincoln becomes a candidate for Illinois General Assembly.
In April: The Black Hawk War starts and Lincoln joins. -
Lincoln loses the election.
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Lincoln becomes the Postmaster of New Salem and in October he becomes the Deputy County Surveyor.
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Lincoln starts to study law and meets his first love, Ann Rutledge.
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Lincoln is elected to the General Illinois Assembly.
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Ann Rutledge dies from fever. Forever in our hearts. But on the up side, he becomes the leader of the Whig Party.
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On August 1st: Lincoln is re-elected to the Illinois Generel Assembly. On September 9th: Recieves his law license. He also starts to date Mary Owens.
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Lincoln moves to Springfield, becomes the law partners with John T. Stuart but Mary Owens declined his proposal.
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Re-elected into the Illinois Generel Assembly.
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Practises as a lawyer on the 8th Judicial Circuit in Illinois.
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Lincoln meets Mary Todd as a Christmas dance.
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Lincoln recieves admission to United States Circuit Court.
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Lincoln proposes to Mary Todd and she accepts.
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Lincoln breaks off his engagement to Mary Todd and suffers from depression
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Abe resumes his courtship with Mary Todd.
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Lincoln gets challenged to a sword duel by James Shields over the publication of letters which taunted the Democrat Shields.
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Abe marries Mary Todd in Springfield.
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Robert Todd Lincoln is born to Abe and Mary
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Lincoln sets up his own law practice.
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Edward Baker Lincoln is born
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Lincoln is nominated as Whig candidate for U.S. Congress.
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Lincoln is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The Lincoln family moves to a boarding house in Washington, D.C.
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Gives a speech against war policy regarding Mexico
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Lincoln leaves politics to practice law in Springfield.
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Lincoln resumes his role in the 8th Judicial Circuit gaining a reputation as an outstanding lawyer and earning the nickname of 'Honest Abe'.
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Edward Baker Lincoln died at the age of 3 years and 328 days old. His death was recorded as chronic consumption but it is believed that he may have died from medullary thyroid cancer which Lincoln and his two other sons may have shared some part of the genetic cancer syndrome.
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William Wallace Lincoln (Willie) was born.
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Thomas (Tad) Lincoln is born.
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Lincoln gives a speech on slavery in New Haven, Connecticut
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Lincoln is nominated to be the Republican candidate for President of the United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected as 16th U.S. president.
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President Lincoln delivers his First Inaugural Address.
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There is an attack on Fort Sumter - Confederates under General Pierre Beauregard open fire marking the start of the Civil War.
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A kidnap plot by John Wilkes Booth fails when Lincoln doesn't arrive as expected at the Soldiers Home.
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President Lincoln and his wife Mary go to Ford's Theater to see the play "Our American Cousin" . During the third act of the play John Wilkes (Wimpy) Booth shoots the president in the head at approx 10:13 p.m.
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President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning. Vice President Andrew Johnson assumes the presidency.
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John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed in a tobacco barn in Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, outside Springfield, Illinois.