Jan 04 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession

Jan 01 President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful

Jan 03 US Fort Pulaski &Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia

Jan 31 State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans

Jan 09 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede

Jan 24 Federal troops from Fort Monroe are sent to Fort Pikens

Jan 31 State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans

Jan 29 Kansas becomes the 34th state of the Union.

Jan 06 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola

Jan 24 Arsenal at Augusta GA seized by Confederacy

Jan 19 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede

Jan 01 Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City

Jan 10 US forts & property seized by Mississippi

Jan 01 Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City

Jan 06 New York City NY mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N &S

Jan 21 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign

Jan 05 Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay

Jan 02 SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor

Jan 04 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession

Jan 23 Agoston Haraszthy, first vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 100,000 cuttings of 350 varieties from Europe

Jan 11 Alabama secedes from the Union at the start of the U.S. Civil War.

Jan 02 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia

Jan 02 SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor

Jan 06 New York City NY mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N &S

Jan 10 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US

Jan 14 Fort Pikens FL falls into state hands

Jan 19 Georgia seceded from the Union.

Jan 09 The first hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter SC

Jan 10 Colonel Moody names Lulu Island (near Vancouver) for Lulu Sweet, an American actress appearing in theatrical performances for the Royal Engineers

Jan 01 President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful

Jan 26 Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede

Jan 03 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy

Jan 02 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia

Jan 11 Mexico City captured by Juárez (Liberal) in War of the Reform

Jan 21 Mississippi Sen. Jefferson Davis resigned from the U.S. Senate, 12 days before Mississippi seceded from the Union.

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