Mar 07 Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN

Mar 19 Maori War in New Zealand ends with Maori surrender

Mar 22 The first US nursing school chartered

Mar 06 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army

Mar 23 London's first tramcars, designed by Mr Train of New York, begins operating

Mar 04 President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office

Mar 16 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union

Mar 17 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed

Mar 04 Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President; first time US has 5 former Presidents living

Mar 02 US Congress creates Dakota &Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska &Utah territories

Mar 27 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars

Mar 31 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans

Mar 04 Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th President of the United States

Mar 02 Government Printing Office purchases a printing plant, Washington DC

Mar 08 St Augustine FL surrenders to Union armies

Mar 13 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers

Mar 04 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag

Mar 09 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000

Mar 16 Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain

Mar 11 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution

Mar 03 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom

Mar 04 Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as US President.

Aug 05 US Army abolishes flogging

Aug 03 First manned balloon from a ship used to observe Confederate artillery position at Hampton Roads, VA

Aug 05 US levies its first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)

Aug 16 Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy

Sep 25 Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves

Sep 03 Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality

Feb 13 Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks &defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians

Feb 18 Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery AL

Feb 09 Tennessee votes against secession

Feb 23 Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns

Feb 13 Abraham Lincoln declared President

Feb 23 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US

Feb 11 US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state

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