Historical Events In 1861

Jan 17 Flush toilet (with seperate water tank and a pull chain) patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)

Jan 03 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy

Jan 05 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Fort Sumter

Jan 04 US Fort Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama

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

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

Jan 05 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Fort Sumter

Jan 12 FL state troops demand surrender of Fort Pickens

Jan 04 US Fort Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama

Jan 19 MS troops take Fort Massachusetts an Ship Island

Jan 15 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis

Jan 07 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine

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

Feb 11 President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Washington DC

Feb 05 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia PA

Feb 01 Texas votes to secede from the Union.

Feb 23 President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington DC to take office

Feb 27 US Congress authorizes first stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing

Feb 09 Jefferson Davis &Alexander Stephens elected president &Vice President of CSA

Feb 04 Confederate constitutional convention meets for first time, Montgomery AL, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi &South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy

Feb 20 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms

Feb 05 First moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale

Feb 15 Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)

Feb 21 Navaho Indians elect Herrero Grande as chief

Feb 01 Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands

Feb 18 King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes first king of Italy

Feb 06 First meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America

Feb 22 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration

Feb 27 Warsaw Massacre Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russian rule of Poland

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