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civil war
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The Pemberton Mill collapses in Lawrence, Massachusetts, killing 145 workers.
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The New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 begins in Lynn, Massachusetts
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Wiyot Massacre, 80 to 250 Wiyot people were killed on Indian Island, near Eureka, California.
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Abraham Lincoln gives his Cooper Union speech.
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The pony express begins its first run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.
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The Paiute War begins as Northern Paiutes raided Williams Station in Utah Territory.
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The U.S. Constitutional Union Party holds its convention and nominates John Bell for President of the United States.
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Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
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An unsuccessful proposal introduced by United States senator John J. Crittenden.
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South Carolina secedes from the union.
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Abraham Lincoln officially becomes the 16th president of the united states.
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Defeat of a Federal attack on the fort at Big Bethal in Virginia.
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Federal victory in West Virginia.
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Action during the pursuit of the army defeated at Rich Mountain, in which the Confederate commander General Garnett becomes the first civil war general to be killed in action
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General McClellan appointed to command the army of the Potomac.
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Battle in Missouri that saw the death of the key Federal commander in the area
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A Confederate defeat in West Virginia, notable as the first battle commanded by General Lee.
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Confederate forces in the south of West Virginia defeated by General Rosecrans.
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Defeat of a Union attempt to capture Leesbury (Virginia), forty miles up-river from Washington.
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An early battle in the career of U.S. Grant. An attempt to create a diversion in the Mississippi campaign, most significant for the battlefield experience it gave Grant.
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204 men are trapped and die underground, when the only shaft becomes blocked.
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Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Fort Craig, in New Mexico Territory
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Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated in Richmond, Virginia, to a 6-year term as president of the Confederate States of America.
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The Confederates are shut out of Missouri.
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In New Mexico, Union forces succeed in stopping the Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory.
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The Spanish and the British end their alliance with France.
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The battle begins when Union forces under General George B. McClellan close in on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
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The Union Army, under General Ulysses S. Grant, defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
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Union volunteers steal a Confederate locomotive, setting off the Great Locomotive Chase, famously involving the use of The General steam locomotive, which still exists in the 21st century.
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Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut occupy the Confederate city of New Orleans, securing access to the Mississippi River.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was made by Abraham Lincoln on January 1st. It freed all Confederate slave.
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1st underground railway opens in London
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President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address
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Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana
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1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal.
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Civil War skirmish near Newtown,Virginia.
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American soldiers slaughter hundreds of Native Americans at the confluence of the Bear River and Beaver Creek in present day Idaho.
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The United States War Department issued General Order Number 143. Establishing a "Bureau of Colored Troops" to facilitate the recruitment of African-American soldiers to fight for the Union Army.
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a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and one of the best-known speeches in American history.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was an important battle in the war, with Lee's invasion of a northern state (from Maryland to Pennsylvania).
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Battle of Cosby Creek, Tennessee
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Battle of Yazoo River, MS
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Rebecca Lee in the US becomes 1st African American woman to receive a medical degree
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Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities
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1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga.
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US Civil War ends after 10,920 killed or injured
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Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
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won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War)
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Union General William T Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during Savannah Campaign (US Civil War)
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US President Abraham Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday
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Battle of Ft Moultrie, South Carolina
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13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
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Conferate General Early's army is defeated at the battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, during American Civil War
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Battle at Blakely Alabama
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US President Andrew Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
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Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi
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One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine found the Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) as the East London Christian Mission
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Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
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American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
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13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery
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Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End, England and kills 220
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cures her injuries by opening a bible
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US Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
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US Congress rejects presidential veto giving all equal rights in US
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Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao
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Italy declares war on Austria beginning the Third Italian War of Independence
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Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment to the US constitution, guaranteeing civil rights
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Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
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Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel in Chicago
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Fetterman Massacre: Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians kill all 81 US Army soldiers in the worst military disaster ever suffered by the U.S. Army on the Great Plains
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African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Andrew Johnson's veto
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Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
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US Congress creates the Department of Education
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Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
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The Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving as the first Prime Minister
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Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tennessee)
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The United States takes control of Midway Island.
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72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
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US Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson
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Around 49 victims of "Angola Horror" train wreck burn to death in Angola, New York
