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Abraham Lincoln is born
Abraham Lincoln is born in a one-room log cabin on Nolin Creek in Kentucky. -
Abraham's mother dies
Young Abraham is kicked in the head by a horse and for a brief time is thought to be dead. On October 5th, Nancy Hanks Lincoln (his mother) dies of "milk sickness." -
House of Representatives
Lincoln wins his second bid for election to the Illinois House of
Representatives. -
President
Lincoln becomes the first Republican to be elected President of
the United States. -
Lincoln Dies
Actor John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre.