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Lincoln was born in Nolin Creek, Kentucky.
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Nancy Hanks Lincoln (his mother) dies of "milk sickness."
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Abraham's father, Thomas, marries a widow, Sarah Bush Johnston, and becomes stepfather to her three children. Abraham develops much affection for his stepmother.
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Lincoln, age 24, is elected to the Illinois General Assembly as a member of the Whig party.
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November 4, marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
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November 6, 1860 - Abraham Lincoln is elected as 16th U.S. president and the first Republican. Receives 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
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President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield as a national cemetery.
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Abraham Lincoln is re-elected president, defeating Democrat George B. McClellan. Lincoln gets 212 of 233 electoral votes and 55 percent of the popular vote.
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Lincoln and his wife Mary see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. About 10:13 p.m., during the third act of the play, John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head. Doctors attend to the president in the theater then move him to a house across the street. He never regains consciousness.
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President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning.
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