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1861 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1861st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 861st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1861, the ...
June 3 – Stephen A. Douglas, Senator from Illinois from 1847 till 1861 and presidential candidate (born 1813) June 5 – John Garland, Bvt. Brigadier General in the Union Army (born 1793) June 13 – Richard Lawrence, failed assassin of Andrew Jackson (born c. 1800–1801)
12 April – American Civil War breaks out, leading to Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861–1865). 13 May – British government resolves to remain neutral in the American Civil War. [4] 17 May – Thomas Cook runs the first package holiday from London to Paris. [3] July – outbreak of yellow fever onboard paddle frigate HMS Firebrand in the West ...
The 84th New York State Legislature met from January 1 to April 16, 1861, at Albany, New York. Ira Harris was the candidate of the Republican Party . Harris had been a Whig assemblyman in 1845 and 1846, and a justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1847 to 1859.
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
The 1861 State of the Union Address was written by the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and delivered to the 37th United States Congress, on Tuesday, December 3, 1861, amid the American Civil War, which had begun earlier in the year. [1]
The 1860–61 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between August 6, 1860, and October 24, 1861, before or after the first session of the 37th United States Congress convened on July 4, 1861.
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1861. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland ).