President Lincoln Study Facts
16th President From 1861-1865 - One Term and One Month
Born: Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky
Died: Assassinated on April 15th, 1865 at age 56 in Washington D.C.
Occupation: Lawyer
Political Party: Whig, Republican, National Union
Religion: None
1816 Lincoln Family moves from Kentucky to Indiana
1818 Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, dies of milk sickness
1819 Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln, marries Sarah Bush Johnston
1830 Lincoln family moves to Macon County, Illinois
1831 Lincoln family moves to Cole County, Illinois
1831 Abe gets a job on a flatboat transporting goods from New Salem to New Orleans
1832 Lincoln serves as a Captain in Illinois Militia during The Black Hawk War
1834 Wins an election to the state legislature
1837 Becomes a lawyer
1837 Moves to Springfield, Illinois and sets up a Law Practice
1835 Ann Rutledge, Lincoln's first love, dies. Probably of typhoid fever.
1840 Becomes engaged to Mary Todd
1842 Lincoln marries Marry Todd on November 4th
1843 Lincoln's first son, Robert Todd Lincoln, is born
1846 Lincoln's second son, Edward Baker Lincoln is born
1846 Elected to U.S. House of Representatives
1850 Edward dies most likely from Tuberculosis
1850 Lincoln's son, William Wallace Lincoln, is born
1858 Lincoln vs Douglas Debates. Lincoln loses to Douglas for the U.S. Senate seat.
1853 Lincoln's son, Thomas Tad Lincoln, is born
1860 Speech at Cooper Union on February 27th in New York City
1860 Elected 16th President of the United States on November 6th . First Republican President.
1860 December 20th South Carolina Secedes from the Union. Other Southern States secede.
1861 Jefferson Davis becomes President of the Confederate States of America on February 9th
1861 Lincoln becomes the 16th President of the United States on March 4th
1861 Fort Sumter is attacked by Confederates and Union Troops surrender
1862 William Wallace Lincoln dies at the age of eleven from fever
1862 September - First Executive Order of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
1863 January - Second Executive Order of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
1863 Battle of Gettysburg in July. Union victory send Confederates back South
1863 Lincoln gives his Gettysburg Address speech on November 19th
1864 Lincoln wins the Presidential Election of 1864 on November 8th by a landslide
1865 Confederate General Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
1865 Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14th at the Ford's Theater
1871 Thomas Tad Lincoln dies most likely from Tuberculosis in Chicago at the age of 18
1875 Marry Todd Lincoln is involuntarily committed to a mental health asylum
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