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Battles/Soldiers A Union winter cavalry raid departs its West Virginia base and marches south to cut communications
Crime/Disasters A very early frost disrupts the grain harvest in much of the eastern United States.
Crime/Disasters A well-behaved mob lynches a horse thief and murderer in the town square in Kokomo, Indiana
Legal/Political Aaron Stevens found guilty in Virginia for his part in Harpers Ferry Raid
US/the World Abdülaziz I of Turkey becomes the first Ottoman Emperor to visit the United Kingdom.
Foreign Abolition of slavery in Columbia completed
Legal/Political Abolitionist lecture delivered successfully in Philadelphia as police and rioters battle outside the hall
Campaigns/Elections Abolitionist lecture in Burlington, New Jersey ends in chaos and a barrage of rotten eggs
Campaigns/Elections Abolitionist meeting to commemorate John Brown broken up in Boston
Legal/Political Abolitionists meet at Faneuil Hall, Boston to protest the arrest of Anthony Burns
Battles/Soldiers Above Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union troops storm the Confederate positions on Lookout Mountain
Cultural Abraham and Mary Lincoln visit Niagara Falls
Personal Abraham Cahan born near Vilna, Lithuania
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln arrives in New York City on his pre-inaugural tour
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln concludes his New England tour with a speech in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Campaigns/Elections - Abraham Lincoln finishes his five day speaking tour in Kansas with two speeches in Leavenworth
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln gives a speech in Elwood at the start of a five day speaking tour in Kansas
Personal Abraham Lincoln is born in Hardin County, Kentucky
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln is re-elected as President of the United States and Republicans make sweeping electoral gains
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln leaves for home after his short Kansas speaking tour
Science/Technology Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, Illinois receives a patent for a device to aid riverboats over shoals
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln rallies Connecticut Republicans in a strong evening speech at Norwich
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln reaches Albany, New York on his pre-inaugural tour and speaks at the capitol
Personal Abraham Lincoln returns to Springfield, Illinois where his remains lay in state in the State House
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln secretly heads directly to Washington arriving in the early morning hours
Legal/Political - Abraham Lincoln serves a single term in the United States House of Representatives
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln speaks before the Cooper Union in New York City
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln speaks in Pittsburgh and then continues his pre-inaugural tour to Cleveland, Ohio
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln speaks in Providence, Rhode Island
Campaigns/Elections Abraham Lincoln speaks to New Hampshire Republicans at Exeter