Historical Events In 1861

Jan 01   Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City   

Jan 01   President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful   

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

Jan 02   Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65.   

Jan 02   Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)   

Jan 02   SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor   

Jan 02   SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor.   

Jan 03   Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy.   

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

Jan 04   Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession.   

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

Jan 04   US Fort Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama.   

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

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

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

Jan 06   Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola.   

Jan 06   Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer   

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

Jan 07   Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine.   

Jan 07   Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St Augustine.   

Jan 09   1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC   

Jan 09   Mississippi is recorded as becoming 2nd state to secede   

Jan 09   The inaugural 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 10   Florida is recorded as becoming 3rd state to secede from US   

Jan 10   Fort Jackson and Fort Philip are taken over by Los Angeles state troops   

Jan 10   US forts and property seized by Mississippi   

Jan 11   Alabama is recorded as becoming 4th state to secede.   

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

Jan 12   FL state troops demand surrender of Fort Pickens   

Jan 12   FL state troops demand surrender of Ft Pickens.   

Jan 14   Fort Pikens FL falls into state hands.   

Jan 14   Ft Pikens, FL falls into state hands.   

Jan 14   Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf).   

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Jan 02   Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of william Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer   

Jan 06   In the year 1861 birth of george Exton Lloyd, Anglican bishop and theologian (d. 1940)   

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)   

Jan 14   In the year 1861 birth of wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf)   

Jan 18   In the year 1861 birth of hans Goldschmidt, German chemist   

Jan 18   In the year 1861 birth of raymond Huntington Woodman, composer   

Jan 02   Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

Jan 17   On this day in history death of lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)   

Jan 31   Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53 on this day in history.   

Feb 10   On this day in history francis Danby, Exmouth, painter, dies   

Feb 12   Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer, dies at 72 in the year 1861.   

Feb 18   In the year 1861 louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74   

Mar 10   In the year 1861 josepf Francois Snel, composer, dies at 67   

Mar 14   Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.