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- Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
3: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1860]] to [[1899]]'''.
5: === [[1860s]] ===
6: ====1860–1865====
7: ...as-1970-1860.png|thumb|U.S. territorial extent in 1860]]
8: *[[1860]] - [[Pony Express]] begins
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
69: | [[1866]] — [[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...explorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[...
6: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
28: ...rlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast Passage]]
30: ... several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other pla... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
46: ...vangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
56: ...ohn Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
72: ...ams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer
79: *[[James Adamson|Adamson, James]], (1946-), astronaut
84: *[[Jane Addams|Addams, Jane]], (1860-1935), [[social work]]er - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
12: ...] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[Highgate]], [[London]].
15: ...wbone ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in...
19: ...rning point in the history of the novel. Making masterful use of a [[counterpoint]]ed plot, Eliot pres...
21: ...ughout her career, Eliot wrote with a politically astute pen. From ''[[Adam Bede]]'' to ''[[The Mill o...
29: * ''[[The Mill on the Floss]]'' (1860) - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ...s educated at home and at a private school. In [[1860]] she resolved to study medicine, an unheard-of t...
7: ... also made one of the visiting physicians of the East London hospital for children; but the duties of t...
9: ...Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the [[British Medical Associati... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
33: ...tance from the doctors and officers, her changes vastly improved conditions for the wounded and by Apri...
39: ...are of her patients in Crimea earned her the everlasting respect and affection of the common soldier.
55: ...ing]]) at [[St Thomas' Hospital]] on [[July 9]] [[1860]]. The first trained Nightingale nurses began wor...
57: ...''[[Notes on Nursing]]'' which was published in [[1860]], a slim 136-page book that served as the corner...
83: ...in the graveyard at [[St. Margaret Church]] in [[East Wellow]], England. - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
14: ...often stacked in rows to provide some shade, at least for those not on top. Keepers could smoke one end...
20: In Eastern, particularly southeastern [[USA]], sections of hollow trees were used up...
31: ...new colonies. Langstroth presented his design in 1860 and it has become the standard style hive for 75%...
38: ...made of wood or plastic and which have a wax or plastic [[foundation]] on which the bees draw out the c... - Nile (13738 bytes)
18: [[Image:Nile_boat.jpg|thumbnail|left|East Africa, showing the course of the River Nile]]
20: ...oth branches formed on the western flanks of the East African Rift, which is the southern African part ...
36: ... Khartoum. The Nile is also unusual in that its last tributary (the Atbara) joins it approximately hal...
42: ...y currents nurture the fishing industries of the Eastern Mediterranean, or used to before the Aswan Hig...
46: ...ago [[desiccation|desiccated]] the [[pastoralism|pastoral]] lands of Egypt to form the [[Sahara]] and t... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
12: ... time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have been a resident of the ...
35: ...utive branch of the federal government — a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, in...
291: ... Secret Service until the President's death. The last President to have lifetime Secret Service protect...
299: *[[Coast Guard One]]
336: ...ar vote in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1860|1860 election]] - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
49: ...ans who acted as Jackson's advisers, and won the lasting regard of Jackson by his courtesies to Mrs. Jo...
59: ...several states. Calhoun, bitterly hostile to the last, objected to the usual vote of thanks to the reti...
63: ... state elections of [[1837]] and [[1838]] were disastrous for the Democrats, and the partial recovery i...
69: ...l vote was won by the party. In the election of [[1860]] he voted for the [[Electoral fusion|fusion]] ti...
71: ...rhook at 2:00 a.m. on [[July 24]], [[1862]]. His last words were: "There is but one reliance..." - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
52: *Pearl Tyler ([[June 20]], [[1860]] - [[June 30]], [[1947]]).
71: The last year of Tyler's presidency was marred by a freak ...
73: Tyler's last act in office was perhaps the most significant: h...
117: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Francis Granger]]'... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
32: | [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
50: ...t overall and the general [[populace]] rated him last as well[http://home.nyc.rr.com/taranto/presidents...
53: ...itted to the bar in [[1812]] and practiced in Lancaster. He was one of the first volunteers in the [[W...
78: Sectional strife rose to such a pitch in [[1860]] that the Democratic Party split. The southern w...
86: ...He was interred in Woodward Hill Cemetery, in Lancaster. "Wheatland" should not be confused with the [... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: ...nto federal territories, and his victory in the [[1860 presidential election]] further polarized the nat...
48: Lincoln had a lasting influence on U.S. political and social institu...
89: In addition, Lincoln worked in at least one criminal trial in [[1857]] when he defended [...
93: ... sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Many eastern Republicans had urged the nomination of Dougla...
95: ...[Jesus]] in Matthew 12:25.) The speech created a lasting image of the danger of disunion due to slavery... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
46: ...d a member of the state Senate from [[1858]] to [[1860]]. He was elected as a [[United States Republica... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
34: ...in 1870 and, while in that post, carried out at least two hangings of condemned criminals. Political op...
62: ...about the yacht ''Oneida'' as it sailed in the [[East River]] to Long Island Sound. The surgery was con...
67: ...Wilson]], the only other Democrat elected between 1860 and 1932. In 1904, some conservative pro-business...
71: ...ndson and a New Hampshire social worker and broadcaster, is now a Grover Cleveland re-enactor.
104: ...t"|[[Postmaster General of the United States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[William F. Vilas]]... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
6: ...aza Strip]], [[Palestine]] and [[Israel]] to the east. The [[Nile]] has been the lifeline for Egyptian ...
14: ...the time of the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]] or before, the Egyptians [[Mining|mined]] [[tu...
35: * [[2400 BCE]] - [[Egyptian calendar|Astronomical Calendar]], used even in the [[Middle Ag...
36: ...e [[Suez Canal|Nile-Red Sea Canal]] ([[Twelfth dynasty of Egypt]])
63: ...Egyptian hieroglyphs first used during the 1st Dynasty (c. 2925 BC - c. 2775 BC). [[Demotic]] referes t... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
16: ...tensive process that happened during the first dynasty. The dead were originally buried in [[reed (plan...
20: ...wever, from the [[first dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]] onwards, the ancient Egyptians were trying pre...
31: ...in the tomb during the burial ritual. In later dynasties, these organs were treated and wrapped and ret...
63: ...C]] and suggesting very ancient contacts between East and West. It has been suggested that these mummif...
67: ...0 ancient tombs dating back to the Eastern Han Dynasty at Yingpan near Lop Nur in the Xinjiang Uighur A... - California (63989 bytes)
63: Dance = [[West Coast Swing]]; folk - [[Square dance]] |
89: ...d on the [[West Coast of the United States|west coast]] of the [[United States]]. California is the thi...
93: ...daries of the [[Sea of Cortez]] and the Pacific coast were only partially explored and California was s...
98: ...ds, tribes, tribelets, and on the resource-rich coasts large chiefdoms, such as the Chumash, Pomo and S...
100: The first [[European]] to explore parts of the coast was the [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] [[Juãn ... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
26: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
37: ... on the north, and the [[Atlantic Ocean]] on the east.
42: ...d, chartered two colonies on the North Carolina coast in the late [[1580s]], both ending in failure. [[...
46: ...yetteville, North Carolina|Fayetteville]] in the east to [[Bethania, North Carolina|Bethania]] (northwe...
48: ...an Civil War|Civil War]], North Carolina was the last state to secede from the Union in [[1861]]. Gove... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
25: TimeZone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
52: ...], on the north by [[Massachusetts]], and on the east by [[Rhode Island]]. The state capital is [[Hartf...
56: ...rthwards to Hartford, as well as further up the coast near New London. Many towns center around a small...
65: ...attached to [[New York City]] and its suburbs in eastern [[New York State]].
68: *[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast]]
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