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April 15 – Isaiah Stillman, U.S. Army Major in the Black Hawk War (born 1793) May 21 – Benjamin Paul Akers, sculptor (born 1825) May 24 – Elmer E. Ellsworth, first Union officer to die in the Civil War (born 1837) June 3 – Stephen A. Douglas, Senator from Illinois from 1847 till 1861 and presidential candidate (born 1813)
March 4, 1861 – Lincoln becomes the 16th president and Hamlin becomes the 15th vice president; 1861 – American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter; 1861 – First Battle of Bull Run (First Battle of Manassas) 1861 – Davis unanimously elected to full term as Confederate president, Stephen unanimously elected to full term as Confederate vice ...
April 20 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army, in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia. April 24 (N.S.) – Bezdna unrest : Bezdna in Russia is the scene of a peasant uprising; the military open fire and about 90 are killed.
Republicans (and Pennsylvania Democrats) attack the low level of the tariff rates. [139] James D.B. DeBow establishes DeBow's Review, the leading Southern magazine, which becomes an ardent advocate of secession. DeBow warns against depending on the North economically. [140] The Mexican–American War begins.
The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.
The Territory of Dakota is organized, March 2, 1861; Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the United States on March 4, 1861; A rump government declares itself the Confederate Territory of Arizona on March 16, 1861; American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 Battle of Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861 – April 13, 1861
1860 to 1861 – Upper Doab famine of 1860–1861; 1860 to 1861 – the Black Winter of 1860-1861 in Qajar Iran [2] 1862 – the Great Flood of 1862, the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundated the western United States and portions of British Columbia and Mexico [3]
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