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Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks.
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Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, died at the age of 34. She was died during an epidemic of a disease called milk sickness which is a disease that comes about from drinking the milk of a cow who ate a poisonous plant. Because of the timing of her death, it is theorized that "milk sickness" was the cause.
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Abraham Lincoln makes his first political speech. It was about the advantages and why navigation on the Sangamon River should be improved.
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Abraham Lincoln becomes a candidate for Illinois General Assembly.
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Abraham Lincoln enlists in the Black Hawk War.
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Abraham Lincoln loses the election for Illinois General Assembly.
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Abraham Lincoln began to study law. He didn't go to any particular school. In fact, he only had about a year and a half total of formal schooling. He self educated himself by reading books.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected to the Illinois General Assembly, in which he previously lost the election.
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Abraham Lincoln is re-elected to the Illinois General Assembly.
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Abraham Lincoln recieves his law license.
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Abraham Lincoln is established as a law partner of John T. Stuart.
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Abraham Lincoln practices as a lawyer in the 8th Judicial Circuit in Illinois.
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Abraham Lincoln is admission into the Circuit Court.
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Abraham Lincoln presents his first case as a lawyer in Illinois Supreme Court.
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Abraham Lincoln begins to suffer from depression.
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Abraham Lincoln gets a new law partnership with Stephen T. Logan.
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Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd after being engaged, breaking engagement, and then being engaged again.
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Abraham Lincoln tries for a Whig nomination for US Congress, but fails.
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Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd have their first born son, Robert Todd Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln sets up his own law practice, also dissolving his partnership with Stephen T. Logan.
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Abraham Lincoln's second son, Edward Baker Lincoln, is born.
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Abraham Lincoln gets, what previously failed, Whig nominated for US Congress.
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Abraham Lincoln gets elected to the US House of Representatives.
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Abraham Lincoln leaves the career in politics to go back to practicing law in Springfield.
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Edward, Abraham Lincoln's second born son, dies of pulminary turberculosis at the age of 4.
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William Wallace Lincoln, nicknamed "Willie", is born.
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Thomas Lincoln, nicknamed "Tad", is born.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected to Illinois Legislature, but declines it to run for US Senator. He loses in the year 1855.
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Abraham Lincoln is nominated for US Senator for Illinois, opposing the Domocratic Stephen A. Douglas, who wins.
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