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11/25/1864 |
In New York City, John Wilkes Booth performs with his brothers Edwin and Junius for the only time |
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04/05/1865 |
In Washington, Secretary of State Seward is injured quite badly when thrown from his carriage |
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04/14/1865 |
John Wilkes Booth shoots President Lincoln during the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford’s Theatre |
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04/14/1865 |
Lewis Powell attempts to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward in Washington, DC |
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04/15/1865 |
Reckless remark over the death of President Lincoln leads to mob violence in Fall River, Massachusetts |
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04/15/1865 |
President Lincoln dies from the head wound John Wilkes Booth inflicted eight hours before |
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04/15/1865 |
President Lincoln's body taken from Petersen's Boarding house to the White House two hours after death |
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04/15/1865 |
Fugitive John Wilkes Booth rides into Maryland and reaches the farm of Dr. Samuel Mudd at four a.m. |
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04/16/1865 |
John Wilkes Booth and David Herold continue their flight across Maryland then hide in a remote thicket |
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04/17/1865 |
Mary Surratt and Lewis Powell are arrested in a late night War Department raid on Surratt's boarding house |
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04/17/1865 to 04/20/1865 |
John Wilkes Booth and David Herold are hiding from their pursuers in a remote Maryland pine thicket |
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04/17/1865 |
In Baltimore, assassination conspirator Michael O'Laughlin is arrested in the morning in Baltimore |
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04/17/1865 |
Assassination conspirator Samuel Arnold is arrested in the morning at Fortress Monroe in Virginia |
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04/19/1865 |
The funeral service for President Lincoln takes place in the White House East Room at noon |
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04/20/1865 |
George Atzerodt, failed assassin in the John Wilkes Booth conspiracy, is captured in Maryland |
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04/20/1865 |
The body of slain President Lincoln is laying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda |
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04/20/1865 |
At the War Department, Secretary Stanton announced large rewards for the capture of the Lincoln conspirators |
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04/21/1865 |
Doctor Samuel Mudd, who treated and sheltered John Wilkes Booth, is arrested at his Maryland farm |
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04/21/1865 |
At ten o'clock in the morning President Lincoln's remains reach Baltimore to lie in state there for several hours |
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04/21/1865 |
At eight o'clock in the morning President Lincoln begins his twelve-day journey home from Washington D.C. |
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04/22/1865 |
Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Harrisburg and rolls across the Pennsylvania countryside to Philadelphia |
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04/22/1865 to 04/23/1865 |
In Philadelphia, President Lincoln's remains lay in state at Independence Hall for two days |
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04/24/1865 |
President Lincoln's remains arrive in New York City to lay in state at City Hall |
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04/24/1865 |
Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Philadelphia before dawn and moves across New Jersey |
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04/24/1865 |
President Johnson sets May 25th as a day of "special humiliation and prayer" for Abraham Lincoln |
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04/25/1865 |
President Lincoln's remains depart New York City after a massive procession across the city |
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04/25/1865 |
Secretary Edwin Stanton intervenes to ensure African-American participation in New York's funeral procession |
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04/26/1865 to 04/27/1865 |
President Lincoln's funeral train makes its way across upstate New York to Buffalo |
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04/26/1865 |
John Wilkes Booth is trapped in a Virginia barn, is shot, and dies of his wound just before dawn |
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04/26/1865 |
At Albany, thousands of citizens file past Abraham Lincoln's coffin in the State Capitol |
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04/27/1865 |
In Philadelphia, high political emotions start a brawl and get a prominent Philadelphia author arrested |
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04/27/1865 |
President Lincoln's remains spend the day in Buffalo, New York before heading for Cleveland, Ohio |
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04/28/1865 |
President Lincoln's remains spend the day in Cleveland, Ohio, on their journey west |
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04/29/1865 |
For Christian religious reasons, President Johnson adjusts the day of mourning for Abraham Lincoln to June 1, 1865 |
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04/29/1865 |
In Washington, John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are transferred to the Old Penitentiary for trial |
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04/29/1865 |
In Columbus, Ohio, thousands view President Lincoln's remains during a day at the State Capitol |
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04/30/1865 |
At Richmond, Indiana, a crowd of thousands await the three a.m. arrival of President Lincoln's train |
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04/30/1865 |
President Lincoln's casket lays in state at the State Capitol in Indianapolis, Indiana |
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05/01/1865 |
In Washington, President Johnson orders a military trial for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters |
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05/01/1865 |
Reaching his home state, President Lincoln's remains arrive in Chicago to a remarkable reception |
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05/02/1865 |
President Lincoln's remains reboard his funeral train for the last time in Chicago bound for Springfield, Illinois and home |
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05/03/1865 |
Abraham Lincoln returns to Springfield, Illinois where his remains lay in state in the State House |
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05/04/1865 |
In Springfield, Illinois, President Lincoln is laid to rest at the Oak Ridge Cemetery |
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05/06/1865 |
In Washington, the officers of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are named |
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05/09/1865 |
In Washington, membership of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters is adjusted |
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05/10/1865 |
In Washington, the accused Lincoln Assassination plotters all plead not guilty before their military court |
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05/12/1865 |
Famed Maryland lawyer and statesman Reverdy Johnson meets with accused conspirator Mary Surratt in her cell |
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05/12/1865 |
In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial begins |
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05/13/1865 to 06/13/1865 |
In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial continues |
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06/14/1865 |
In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial concludes |
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06/15/1865 to 06/28/1865 |
In Washington's Old Penitentiary, final arguments are being made in the Lincoln conspiracy trial |
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06/29/1865 |
In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the Commission in the Lincoln conspiracy trial begin their deliberations |
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07/03/1865 |
In Washington D.C., the planned reopening of Ford's Theater causes public and governmental consternation |
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07/05/1865 |
In Washington, President Andrew Johnson approves the sentences passed down to the Lincoln conspirators |
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07/06/1865 |
In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the Lincoln conspirators are told their fate in their cells |
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07/07/1865 |
Four condemned Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, are executed in Washington, D.C. |
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07/10/1865 |
On Secretary of War Stanton's orders, troops surround Ford's Theater and prevent its re-opening |
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07/15/1865 |
President Johnson orders the surviving Lincoln conspirators to serve their sentences off the coast of Florida |
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07/24/1865 |
In Washington, the War Department purchases Ford's Theater and begins to convert it as an office building |
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02/12/1866 |
On Abraham Lincoln's birthday, historian George Bancroft delivers a memorial oration before Congress |
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02/19/1867 |
Accused Lincoln conspirator is returned to the United States under arrest for murder. |
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06/10/1867 |
Accused Lincoln conspirator John H. Surratt goes on trial in Washington DC for murder. |
