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Born :02/15/1861Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician/philosopher
Born :07/29/1861Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt
Born :12/08/1861Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)
Born :12/18/1861Aristide Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist
Born :12/05/1861Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24)
Born :08/14/1861Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor
Born :12/15/1861Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
Born :04/09/1861Charles Holroyd, painter/etcher
Born :01/30/1861Charles Martin Loeffler, Mulhouse Alsace, composer
Born :08/06/1861Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
Born :04/23/1861Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Field Marshal
Born :12/18/1861Edward MacDowell, US, composer (Indian Suite)
Born :02/26/1861Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18)
Born :10/04/1861Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West
Born :11/14/1861Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisc, historian/educator (Harvard U)
Born :10/10/1861Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922)
Born :12/17/1861Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer
Born :07/11/1861George William Norris, (Rep/Sen-Neb) (Lame duck-amendement)
Born :12/08/1861Georges M‚lis, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story
Born :01/18/1861Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist
Born :01/02/1861Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)
Born :01/01/1861Isaac Murphy, thoroughbred jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%)
Born :12/19/1861Italo Svevo, Trieste, novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno)
Born :11/06/1861James A Naismith, inventor (basketball)
Born :04/27/1861Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte)
Born :06/10/1861Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (St Bavo, Harlem)
Born :06/18/1861Jos‚ FdT Coelho, Portugese writer (Os Meus Amores)
Born :12/04/1861Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
Born :02/12/1861Lou [Andreas-]Salom‚, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott)
Born :01/14/1861Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
Born :02/02/1861Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22)
Born :02/20/1861Nicolaas van Meeteren, Cura‡ao, folk singer
Born :09/17/1861Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch)
Born :07/03/1861Peter Jackson, heavyweight, boxing hall of famer
Born :06/10/1861Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian
Born :05/07/1861Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913)
Born :05/06/1861Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer
Born :10/26/1861Richard D Sears, Boston, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match
Born :11/10/1861Robert TA Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
Born :02/27/1861Rudolf Steiner, Austria, philosopher (founded anthroposophy movement)
Born :07/01/1861Samuel D Riddle, horse owner (Man 'o War)
Born :06/16/1861Scato Gocko de Vries, paleography/librarian
Born :02/02/1861Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist (Guggenheim Museum NYC)
Born :02/13/1861Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian)
Born :09/03/1861Ursmer Berlire, Belgian historian (Monastican Belgium)
Born :05/27/1861Victoria E Matthews, educator
Born :04/19/1861Warden Oncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish landlord/writer
Born :01/14/1861Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf)
Born :12/08/1861William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine
Born :06/29/1861William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota




Died :02/20/1861A Eugne Scribe, French playwright (Fra Diavoli), dies
Died :12/14/1861Albert, prince consort of England & husband of Queen Victoria, dies
Died :01/02/1861Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/emp of Germ (1849-61), dies
Died :06/06/1861Giuseppe Concone, Italian child singer, dies at 59
Died :11/11/1861Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies at 24
Died :06/03/1861Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln-debates, dies




Special :06/03/18611st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
Special :09/17/18611st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia
Special :01/09/18611st hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter, SC
Special :07/21/18611st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
Special :02/06/18611st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
Special :07/01/18611st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF
Special :06/01/18611st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va
Special :10/24/18611st transcontinental telegram sent ending Pony Express
Special :01/05/1861250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter
Special :08/14/186179th NY troops mutinies
Special :04/25/18617th NY arrives to reinforce Washington, DC
Special :02/10/1861A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #63 Ausonia
Special :04/13/1861After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates
Special :01/11/1861Alabama becomes 4th state to secede
Special :01/05/1861Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay
Special :05/05/1861Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city
Special :05/24/1861Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops
Special :06/19/1861Anaheim Post Office established
Special :03/16/1861Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
Special :05/06/1861Arkansas & Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th state to secede from US
Special :04/23/1861Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith
Special :01/24/1861Arsenal at Augusta, Ga seized by Confederacy
Special :02/10/1861Asteroid 63, Ausonia, discovered (named after Auson, son of Odysseus)
Special :03/04/1861Asteroid 64, Angelina discovered
Special :04/09/1861Asteroid 66, Maia discovered
Special :04/17/1861Asteroid 67, Asia discovered
Special :04/29/1861Asteroid 68-Leto & Asteroid 69-Hesperia discovered
Special :05/29/1861Asteroid 72, Feronia, discovered (name for Italian goddess of groves)
Special :03/10/1861Asteroid Cybele (65) discovered by Tempel
Special :05/04/1861At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
Special :11/26/1861At Wheeling, a convention adopts a consitution for new state W Va
Special :04/19/1861Baltimore riots-4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
Special :12/13/1861Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV
Special :10/21/1861Battle of Balls Bluff, VA (Leesburg, Harrison's Island)
Special :11/07/1861Battle of Belmont, MO
Special :06/10/1861Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats
Special :12/09/1861Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
Special :12/19/1861Battle of Black Water
Special :07/18/1861Battle of Blackburn's Ford, VA US57 CS68 - Manassas -
Special :06/17/1861Battle of Boonville, MI-Brig General Lyon defeats Conmfederate forces
Special :08/27/1861Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark
Special :09/10/1861Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA
Special :12/20/1861Battle of Dranesville, VA
Special :10/11/1861Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek)
Special :08/28/1861Battle of Fort Hatteras NC
Special :11/22/1861Battle of Ft McRee, FL
Special :04/18/1861Battle of Harpers Ferry, VA
Special :07/02/1861Battle of Hoke's Run, WV - small Union voctory
Special :07/07/1861Battle of Laurel Hill, VA
Special :07/11/1861Battle of Laurel Mountain VA-Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels
Special :04/25/1861Battle of Lavaca, TX
Special :09/20/1861Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union
Special :07/27/1861Battle of Mathias Point, VA - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing.
Special :06/24/1861Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries
Special :11/08/1861Battle of Mount Ivy, KY
Special :04/20/1861Battle of Norfolk, VA
Special :11/09/1861Battle of Piketon, Ky
Special :11/07/1861Battle of Port Royal Bay, SC (Ft Walker, Ft Beauregard)
Special :09/16/1861Battle of Princeton WV
Special :07/11/1861Battle of Rich Mountain, VA - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender
Special :04/23/1861Battle of San Antonio, TX
Special :05/18/1861Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South
Special :06/16/1861Battle of Vienna, VA & Secessionville, SC (James Island)
Special :08/10/1861Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed
Special :10/25/1861Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield)
Special :03/27/1861Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
Special :08/01/1861Brazil recognizes Confederacy
Special :06/01/1861British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
Special :02/23/1861By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
Special :05/29/1861C H F Peters discovers asteroid #72 Feronia
Special :06/30/1861CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
Special :04/18/1861Col Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
Special :07/03/1861Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general.
Special :08/19/1861Confederacy Congress allies with govt of MI
Special :10/16/1861Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
Special :03/31/1861Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
Special :03/04/1861Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
Special :02/08/1861Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala
Special :11/28/1861Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederate Army
Special :03/11/1861Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
Special :03/09/1861Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
Special :09/03/1861Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality
Special :03/16/1861Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
Special :10/12/1861Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi
Special :07/20/1861Confederate state's congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va
Special :07/17/1861Congress authorizes paper money
Special :03/02/1861Congress creates Dakota & Nevada Territories
Special :05/20/1861Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle
Special :01/03/1861Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
Special :02/20/1861Dept of Navy of Confederacy is established
Special :05/29/1861Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
Special :03/04/1861E W Tempel discovers asteroid #64 Angelina
Special :03/08/1861E W Tempel discovers asteroid #65 Cybele
Special :02/06/1861English Adm Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
Special :08/05/1861Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years
Special :01/12/1861FL state troops demand surrender of Ft Pickens
Special :04/30/1861Federal Troops, under orders from Lincoln, evacuate Indian Territory
Special :04/15/1861Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by Pres Lincoln
Special :06/05/1861Federal marshals seize arms & gunpower at Du Pont works DE
Special :01/24/1861Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens
Special :04/05/1861Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Tx
Special :01/10/1861Florida becomes 3rd state to secede
Special :01/06/1861Florida troops seize the Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
Special :01/07/1861Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St Augustine
Special :01/17/1861Flush toilet patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
Special :04/14/1861Formal Union surrender of Ft Sumter
Special :09/22/1861Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate), rapes Navaho Indians
Special :04/12/1861Fort Sumter, SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War
Special :06/19/1861Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia
Special :01/10/1861Ft Jackson & Ft Philip are taken over by LA state troops
Special :01/14/1861Ft Pikens, FL falls into state hands
Special :02/15/1861Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
Special :04/26/1861G Schiaparelli discovers asteroid #69 Hesperia
Special :05/03/1861GEN Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
Special :12/05/1861Gatling gun patented
Special :05/31/1861Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
Special :11/01/1861Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
Special :01/19/1861Georgia becomes 5th state to secede
Special :03/02/1861Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington
Special :09/01/1861Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
Special :05/05/1861H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #70 Panopaea
Special :04/09/1861H P Tuttle discovers asteroid #66 Maja
Special :09/17/1861Hampton Institute forms
Special :06/14/1861Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance
Special :07/04/1861In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
Special :04/17/1861Indianola TX-"Star of West" taken by Confederacy
Special :03/17/1861Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
Special :02/09/1861Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of CSA
Special :05/06/1861Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy
Special :11/06/1861Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate pres
Special :01/21/1861Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
Special :03/13/1861Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
Special :08/30/1861John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
Special :06/15/1861Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry
Special :01/29/1861Kansas becomes 34th state
Special :05/16/1861Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
Special :05/20/1861Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
Special :02/05/1861Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia
Special :02/18/1861King Victor Emanuel II of Sardinia becomes king of Italy
Special :05/01/1861Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
Special :06/28/1861Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest
Special :08/06/1861Lexington KY-Union milt camp established in neutral state
Special :05/03/1861Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
Special :08/15/1861Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MI
Special :04/19/1861Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
Special :03/04/1861Lincoln's innauguration; 1st time US has 5 former presidents
Special :01/26/1861Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede
Special :02/05/1861Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
Special :01/19/1861MS troops take Ft Massachusetts an Ship Island
Special :05/24/1861Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
Special :07/16/1861Manassas Campaign [->JUL 22]
Special :08/14/1861Martial Law is declared at St Louis MI
Special :04/29/1861Maryland's House of Delegates vote against seceding from Union
Special :01/11/1861Mexico City captured by Ju rez (Lib) in War of the Reform
Special :05/31/1861Mint at New Orleans closes
Special :01/09/1861Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
Special :04/17/1861N R Pogson discovers asteroid #67 Asia
Special :01/06/1861NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S
Special :02/21/1861Navaho indians elects Herrero Grande as chief
Special :10/06/1861Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert
Special :08/05/1861Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade
Special :05/20/1861North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union
Special :02/22/1861On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
Special :02/05/1861Peep show machine patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati
Special :06/08/1861People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
Special :01/01/1861Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico
Special :05/26/1861Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South
Special :01/04/1861Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession
Special :01/01/1861Pres Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful
Special :03/04/1861Pres Lincoln opens Govt Printing Office
Special :08/16/1861Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
Special :04/27/1861President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
Special :02/18/1861President Jefferson Davis is inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama
Special :02/11/1861President-elect Lincoln takes train to Washington
Special :05/13/1861Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
Special :04/29/1861R Luther discovers asteroid #68 Leto
Special :08/13/1861R Luther discovers asteroid #71 Niobe
Special :10/06/1861Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
Special :05/21/1861Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
Special :05/07/1861Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
Special :04/22/1861Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia forces
Special :04/20/1861Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
Special :03/03/1861Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
Special :02/19/1861Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom (3/3 NS)
Special :09/25/1861Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
Special :06/01/1861Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA
Special :09/01/1861Skirmish at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV
Special :08/02/1861Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
Special :08/16/1861Skirmish at Fredericktown MI & Kirkville MI
Special :07/04/1861Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV
Special :08/20/1861Skirmish at Jonesboro MI
Special :07/24/1861Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)VA - CS Gen Wise retreats.
Special :08/12/1861Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians
Special :01/09/1861Star of the West is fired upon as it enters Charlestown Harbor
Special :01/31/1861State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans
Special :02/12/1861State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, AK
Special :01/15/1861Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
Special :10/25/1861Telegraph message sent from St Louis to SF
Special :06/24/1861Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
Special :02/09/1861Tennessee votes against secession
Special :02/28/1861Territory of Colorado created
Special :02/01/1861Texas becomes 7th state to secede
Special :06/01/1861US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
Special :08/05/1861US Army abolishes flogging
Special :02/27/1861US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
Special :01/04/1861US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama
Special :01/03/1861US Ft Pulaski & Ft Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
Special :06/08/1861US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
Special :01/10/1861US forts & property seized by Mississippi
Special :08/05/1861US levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
Special :04/08/1861US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy
Special :11/08/1861US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
Special :12/30/1861US, banks stops payments in gold
Special :05/26/1861Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL
Special :05/10/1861Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, MI
Special :11/04/1861University of Washington founded in Seattle
Special :04/17/1861Virginia become 8th state to secede
Special :05/23/1861Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
Special :07/01/1861War Dept decrees the KA & TN are to be canvassed for volunteers
Special :04/27/1861West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
Special :06/25/1861Western Virginia campaign
Special :08/08/1861William Bateson, originator of term "genetics"

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