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Ash Wednesday |
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Ash Wednesday |
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Ash Wednesday |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Ash Wednesday |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Ash Wednesday begins the Christian observance of Lent for 1862 |
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Ash Wednesday begins the Christian observance of Lent for 1863 |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is celebrated across the United States |
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Ashmun Institute opens in Chester County, Pennsylvania |
US/the World |
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Assassination attempt on the life of Emperor Napoleon III fails in Paris |
Crime/Disasters |
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Assassination conspirator Samuel Arnold is arrested in the morning at Fortress Monroe in Virginia |
Crime/Disasters |
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Astor Place Riot in New York City |
Battles/Soldiers |
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At "Fort Fizzle" in Holmes County, Ohio, federal troops end active draft resistance |
Education/Culture |
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At a gala reception in New York City, thousands greet General Ulysses S. Grant and his family |
Business/Industry |
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At a great celebration in Cedar Falls, ground is broken on the ambitious Iowa Central Railraod |
Campaigns/Elections |
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At a Lincoln rally in New York City, Horace Greeley woos former Whig and American Party voters |
Campaigns/Elections |
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At a mass meeting in Tammany Hall, New York Democrats unite behind Stephen Douglas |
Battles/Soldiers |
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At a private house in Richmond, Confederate cavalry commander General J.E.B. Stuart dies of his wounds |
Science/Technology |
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At a southern England naval base, American inventors demonstrate their "torpedoes" to the Royal Navy |
Personal |
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At Albany, thousands of citizens file past Abraham Lincoln's coffin in the State Capitol |
Crime/Disasters |
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At Atchison, the Kansas Relief Committee reports on its efforts to aid the drought-stricken territory |
US/the World |
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At Baden in Germany, Emperor Napoleon III meets with the leaders of several German states |
Battles/Soldiers |
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At Beaufort, North Carolina, Confederate commerce raider Nashville returns home |
Battles/Soldiers |
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At Bombay, the first British troops leave India for Africa to carry out the invasion of Abyssinia. |
Crime/Disasters |
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At Camp Chase in Ohio, two Union deserters who murdered the assistant Provost Marshal of the Seventeenth District are executed |
US/the World |
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At Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, provincial delegates meet to discuss possible Canadian unity |
Battles/Soldiers |
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At Citronelle, Alabama, Confederate General Richard Taylor surrenders his forces of the Department of Alabama |
Crime/Disasters |
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At Colón in the Panama, an exploding British cargo of nitro-glycerin devastates the port and kills fifty |
Battles/Soldiers |
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At Columbus, Kentucky, Confederate forces begin the abandonment of "the Gibraltar of the West" |
Battles/Soldiers |
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At Columbus, Kentucky, Union forces take possession of "the Gibraltar of the West" |