1861 TimelineJanuary01 - President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful.
01 - Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City.
02 - Confederate guns trained on Fort Sumter
02 - Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia.
02 - Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65.
02 - Wilhelm B”lsche, writer, is born.
02 - SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor.
03 - US Ft Pulaski & Ft Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia.
03 - Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy.
04 - US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama.
04 - Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession.
05 - 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter.
05 - Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay.
06 - Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola.
06 - NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S.
06 - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, is born.
07 - Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St Augustine.
08 - Provisional Confederate Constitution adopted
09 - Mississippi secedes
09 - Jeff Davis named president of the Confederacy
09 - South CarolinaUS Civil War ?+
10 - Florida secedes
10 - Ft Jackson & Ft Philip are taken over by LA state troops.
10 - US forts & property seized by Mississippi.
11 - Constitution of Confederacy adopted
11 - Mexico City captured by Ju rez (Lib) in War of Reform.
11 - Alabama becomes 4th state to secede.
12 - V clav Hanka, Czech author/translator/forger, dies at 69.
12 - US Civil War Florida state troops demand surrender of Ft Pickens.
14 - FloridaUS Civil War Fort Pikens falls into state hands.
14 - Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf), is born.
15 - Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis.
17 - Flush toilet patented by Thomas Crapper.
18 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, is born.
18 - Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer, is born.
19 - MS troops take Ft Massachusetts an Ship Island.
19 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede.
21 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign.
22 - Karel Stecker, composer, is born.
24 - Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens.
24 - GeorgiaUS Civil War Arsenal at Augusta seized by Confederacy.
26 - Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede.
29 - Kansas becomes 34th state.
30 - Monitor launched by Union
30 - Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, Mulhouse Alsace, composer, is born.
31 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod," premieres in Weimar.
31 - State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans.
31 - Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53.
February01 - Texas seceded from the Federal Union following a 171 to 6 vote by the Secession Convention. Governor Sam Houston was one of a small minority opposed to secession.
01 - Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands.
01 - Texas becomes 7th state to secede.
02 - Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22), is born.
02 - Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist (Guggenheim Museum NYC), is born.
02 - Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), is born.
03 - L‚opold Courouble, Belgian writer (Family Kaekebroeck), is born.
04 - ALABAMA Convention of 6 seceded states in Montgomery
04 - Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery Ala, Ga, Fla, La, Miss & SC elect Jefferson Davis pres of Confederacy.
05 - Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress.
05 - 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale.
05 - Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila.
06 - English Adm Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships.
06 - 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America.
08 - Constitution of Confederacy adopted
08 - Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala.
09 - Jeff Davis named Provisional President
09 - Tennessee votes against secession.
09 - Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of CSA.
09 - Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states.
10 - Francis Danby, Exmouth, painter, dies.
11 - Provisional CSA government adopted, sent to states for ratification
11 - US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
11 - US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
11 - President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Wash DC.
12 - Lou [Andreas-]Salom‚, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott), is born.
12 - State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, AK.
12 - Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer, dies at 72.
13 - 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ.
13 - Abraham Lincoln declared president.
13 - Col Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians.
13 - Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian), is born.
15 - Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger).
15 - Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer, is born.
15 - Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas), is born.
18 - Jeff Davis inaugurated President CSA
18 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st king of Italy.
18 - Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74.
18 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Ala.
20 - Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm.
20 - Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms.
20 - Nicolaas van Meeteren, Cura‡ao, folklorist, is born.
21 - Navaho indians elect Herrero Grande as chief.
21 - Pierre Breville, composer, is born.
22 - On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration.
23 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US.
23 - Pres-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Wash DC to take office.
23 - Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns.
26 - Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18), is born.
27 - Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland.
27 - US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing.
27 - Rudolph Steiner, Kraljevic Aust, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy, is born.
27 - Warsaw Massacre: Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russia.
28 - Territories of Nevada & Colorado created.
March00 - 27 states remain in Union
02 - US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah ter.
02 - Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington.
03 - Russia ? Alexander II ?+ emancipates the serfs.
04 - President Lincoln inaugurated
04 - Pres Lincoln opens Govt Printing Office.
04 - Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag.
06 - Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army.
08 - St Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies.
09 - Confederate currency authorized-, 0, 0, ,000.
10 - Josepf Fran‡ois Snel, composer, dies at 67.
11 - Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution.
13 - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers.
14 - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58.
16 - Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain.
16 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union.
17 - Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed.
17 - Petter Conrad Boman, composer, dies at 56.
22 - 1st US nursing school chartered.
23 - London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of NY, begins operating.
27 - Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars.
31 - Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans.
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