| Lawmaking/Litigating |
The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States is sitting in Montgomery, Alabama |
02/09/1861—03/15/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
The Virginia Convention on secession is meeting in Richmond |
02/13/1861—05/01/1861 |
| Education/Culture |
Edward Payson Weston, having walked from Boston, arrives in Washington DC four hours late |
03/04/1861 |
| Education/Culture |
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, two Dickinson College students punished for gun play on campus |
03/04/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
Abraham Lincoln takes the oath as the sixteenth President of the United States at the U.S. Capitol |
03/04/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
Hannibal Hamlin takes the oath as fifteenth Vice President of the United States at the U.S. Capitol |
03/04/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
In Washington, DC, the United States Senate is sitting in Special Session |
03/04/1861—03/28/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
The Confederate States flag, "the Stars and Bars," is adopted in Montgomery, Alabama |
03/04/1861 |
