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May 31 – Horatio Seymour, 18th Governor of New York, Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in the presidential election of 1868 (died 1886) June 12 – David Levy Yulee, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1851 and from 1855 to 1861 (died 1886) July 2 – Robert Toombs, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1853 to 1861, 1st ...
March 4 – James Madison is sworn in as President of the United States for his second term, and Elbridge Gerry is sworn in as Vice President of the United States. March 22 – War of 1812: Col. Richard M. Johnson puts out an order for raising a regiment of mounted volunteers in Kentucky. March 29 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of ...
Sports competitions in Georgia (country) (12 C, 1 P) Categories: History of Georgia (country) Events in Georgia (country) Historical events by country.
October–December. November 16: Oklahoma. October 1 – Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners established within Department of Justice. October 22 – Panic of 1907: A bank run forces New York 's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations.
August 23 – William Stanley West, U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1914 (died 1914) September 3 – Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine fiction writer (died 1909) September 18 – Martha Place, murderer (first woman executed in the electric chair, 1899) October 3 – Jeannette Leonard Gilder, author and editor (died 1916)
September 23 – Freeman Walker, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1819 to 1821 (born 1780) October 12 – John Eager Howard, politician (born 1752) November 10 – St. George Tucker, lawyer and poet (born 1752 in Bermuda) November 25 – Enoch Fenwick, Jesuit priest (born 1780) See also. Timeline of United States history (1820–1859) References
July–September. August 7 – American Baptist minister William Miller preaches his first sermon on the Second Advent of Christ in Dresden, New York, launching the Advent Movement in the United States. August 21 – Outbreak of Nat Turner's Rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. Approximately 55 whites are stabbed, shot and clubbed to death.
The commemoration of the American Civil War is based on the memories of the Civil War that Americans have shaped according to their political, social and cultural circumstances and needs, starting with the Gettysburg Address and the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery in 1863. Confederates, both veterans and women, were especially active in ...