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I8I6...............................Indiana becomes a State.
I80I-I847.......................John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) plants apple-tree nurseries in the Middle West.
I826...............................New Harmony, Indiana, founded by Robert Owen on the southern Wabash.
I844, November..............James K. Polk, Democrat, defeats Henry Clay, Whig, in Presidential Election.
I846-I848.......................The War with Mexico.
I846, August ..................The Wilmot Proviso, proposing that land acquired from Mexico be free territory, reopens the slavery controversy.
I847, September II ...........Stephen Foster's 'Oh! Susanna' sung, probably for the first time, at Andrews' Eagle Ice Cream Saloon in Pittsburgh.
I848
January 24..........Gold discovered in California.
July 4..................Cornerstone of the Washington Monument
laid.
November...........General Zachary Taylor, Whig, wins Presidential
Election.
I85I..............................Hawthorne's story 'The Great Stone Face' published in The Snow Image.
I852.............................Uncle Tom's Cabin published.
I854
May 25 ................Kansas-Nebraska Bill passed.
July 6....................A Republican Party founded in convention
at Jackson, Michigan.
October I6.............The 'Peoria Speech' makes Abraham Lincoln
famous throughout the Northwest for its clear statement of the
moral and political case against slavery and its extension.
I855...............................Hiawatha and Leaves of Grass published.
I856, November..............James Buchanan, Democrat, defeats John C. Frémont, Republican, in Presidential Election.
I858, June I6...................Lincoln opens senatorial campaign against Douglas with 'House Divided' speech.
I859
October I6.............John Brown raids Harper's Ferry.
December 2...........John Brown hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.
I860, November...............Lincoln elected President of the United States.
I86I
February 8............Confederate Government formed.
March 4................Lincoln inaugurated in Washington.
April I2-I4............Fort Sumter besieged and surrendered;
Civil War begins.
I863
January I ..............The Emancipation Proclamation.
May 2-4 ...............The Battle of Chancellorsville.
July I-3 ................The Battle of Gettysburg.
July 8-I3................Morgan's Raid passes through Indiana.
September I9-20....The Battle of Chickamauga.
September-November ..The Siege of Chattanooga.
November I9 .........Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
November 25 ........The Battle of Missionary Ridge.
I864
November I4-I6......The destruction of Atlanta, Georgia.
Nov. I5-Dec. I0.......Sherman's Army marches to the Sea.
I865
February I7............Fall of Columbia, South Carolina.
March 4 ................Lincoln inaugurated for a second term.
April 9 .................Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox
Court House.
April I4 ................Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth in
Ford's Theatre in Washington.
May 23-24 ............The Grand Review in Washington.
I869, May I0...................The Golden Spike driven at Promontory Point, linking the continent by rail.
I869-I877....................... Presidential term of Ulysses S. Grant.
I876
June 26..................Custer Massacre at the Little Big Horn.
July 4 ...................Centennial Fourth in Philadelphia;
America is one hundred years old.
November .............Disputed Presidential Election between
Tilden and Hayes; finally awarded to Hayes.
I877, July......................The Great Railroad Strike.
I892
June......................Republicans nominate Benjamin Harrison
for President; Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland.
July I....................Carnegie and Company lock out 3800
men on a wage dispute at Homestead.
July 4...................The Populist Party convenes at Omaha,
Nebraska.
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