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Abraham Lincoln is born
Abraham Lincoln is born in a one-room log cabin on Nolin Creek in Kentucky. -
Young Abraham attends a log school house.
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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 Abraham's Stepmother.
Sarah Bush Johnston has three children. -
Abe makes his first-ever political speech
Abe and his family begin a 200-mile journey to Illinois where they settle on uncleared land along the Sangamon River, near Decatur. Abe makes his first-ever political speech in favor of improving navigation on the Sangamon River. -
Abe is elected to the Illinois General Assembly as a member of the Whig Party
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Abe is re-elected to the Illinois General Assembly and by now is a leader of the Whig Party
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Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield
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Lincoln's first child is born (Robert Todd Lincoln)
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Lincoln is unsuccessful in his try for the Whig nomination for U.S. Congress
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Lincoln is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
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Abe has another son- William Wallace Lincoln (Willie)
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Lincoln delivers an impassioned speech on slavery in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Lincoln is nominated to the be Republican candidate for President of the United States
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Lincoln is elected as 16th President of the United States, and is the first Republican
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Lincoln leaves by train for Washington, D.C.
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Inauguration ceremonies are help in Washington, D.C. President Lincoln delivers his First Inaugural Address.
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At 4:30am, Confederate artillery opens fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The Civil War begins.
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Lincoln signs a law freeing slaves being used by the Confederates in their war effort.
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The President issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves.
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President Lincoln issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in territories held by Confederates.
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President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
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Abe Lincoln is nominated for a second term as president by a coalition of Republicans and War Democrats.
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Abraham Lincoln is re-elected as President
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President Lincoln delivers his Second Inaugural Address in Washington, D.C.
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A kidnap plot by John Wilkes Booth fails when Lincoln doesn't arrive for a visit to the Soldier's Home.
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President Lincoln makes his last public speech which focuses on the problems of reconstruction
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Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln and his wife Mary see the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. About 10:13pm, during the third act of the play, John Wilkes Booth shoots the President in the head. Doctors attend to the President in the theater and then move him to a house across the street. He never regains consciousness. -
President Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning
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John Wilkes Booth is shot and killen in a tobacco barn in Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln is laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery, outside Springfeild, Illinois.
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Slavery is abolished.