Page 2: Historical Events In 1861

Jan 15   Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis.   

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

Jan 17   Flush toilet patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)   

Jan 18   American Civil War   

Jan 18   Georgia joins the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War.   

Jan 18   Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist   

Jan 19   Georgia is recorded as becoming 5th state to secede.   

Jan 19   Georgia joins the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War   

Jan 19   Georgia seceded from the Union.   

Jan 19   MS troops take Fort Massachusetts an Ship Island.   

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

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

Jan 22   Karel Stecker, composer   

Jan 23   Agoston Haraszthy, inaugural vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 100000 cuttings of 350 varieties from Europe   

Jan 24   Arsenal at Augusta GA seized by Confederacy.   

Jan 24   Arsenal at Augusta, Ga seized by Confederacy.   

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

Jan 26   Louisiana is recorded as becoming 6th state to secede.   

Jan 29   Kansas is recorded as becoming 34th state   

Jan 29   Kansas is recorded as becoming the 34th state of the Union   

Jan 30   Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, Mulhouse Alsace, composer   

Jan 31   Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53   

Jan 31   Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod," premieres in Weimar.   

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

Feb 01   Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands   

Feb 01   Texas votes to secede from the Union.   

Feb 02   Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22).   

Feb 04   Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery Ala, Ga, Fla, La, Miss and SC elect Jefferson Davis pres of Confederacy.   

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

Feb 05   1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale   

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

Feb 05   Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia PA   

Feb 05   Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress.   

Feb 06   1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America   

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Jan 02   Helen herron taft: 1st lady (1909-12)   

Jan 03   William renshaw: British champion tennis player   

Jan 06   Heinrich gottlieb noren: Composer   

Jan 06   George exton lloyd: Anglican bishop and theologian    

Jan 13   Max nonne: German neurologist   

Jan 14   Wilhelm von polenz: German writer (der pfarrer von breitendorf)   

Jan 18   Hans goldschmidt: German chemist   

Jan 18   Raymond huntington woodman: Composer   

Jan 02   Frederik willem iv: King prussia (1840-61)/germ (1849-61),    

Jan 17   Lola montez: Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)   

Jan 31   Franciscus j van vree: Dutch catholic foreman,    

Feb 10   Francis danby: Exmouth, painter,   

Feb 12   Hippolyte-andre-baptiste chelard: Composer,    

Feb 18   Louis c luzac: Dutch minister of internal affairs,    

Mar 10   Josepf francois snel: Composer,    

Mar 14   Abraham louis niedermeyer: Composer,