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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]]
159: | [[Rhode Island]]
160: | [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]]
193: | [[1919]] — [[1928]] (Legislative Building) - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
30: ...]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to ...
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]]
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region i...
53: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[Atlantic]] islands)
66: ... to the [[Indies]]; discovered various lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
84: *[[Jane Addams|Addams, Jane]], (1860-1935), [[social work]]er
89: *[[Thomas Addison|Addison, Thomas]] (1793-1860)
90: *[[George Ade|Ade, George]] (1866-1944), ''[[The Slim Princess]]'' - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
5: ...e said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their ow...
8: ...hical radicals. In [[1854]], she published a translation of Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', ...
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... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
55: ...ing]]) at [[St Thomas' Hospital]] on [[July 9]] [[1860]]. The first trained Nightingale nurses began wor...
57: ...on Nursing]]'' which was published in [[1860]], a slim 136-page book that served as the cornerstone of... - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
31: ...new colonies. Langstroth presented his design in 1860 and it has become the standard style hive for 75%... - Nile (13738 bytes)
50: .... Speke returned with [[James Augustus Grant]] in 1860-1863 for further explorations around Lake Victori...
54: ...sections of faster flowing water with many small islands, shallow water, and rocks, forming an obstacl...
62: ...science during Pharonic times. The Nile mysteriously and predictably rose each summer to flood and fe...
66: Ledyard, in his ''Travels'', speaks contemptuously of this celebrated wonder:—"This is the mi...
87: ...//www.ianandwendy.com/OtherTrips/Egypt/NileCruise/slideshow2.htm Photo Gallery from a cruise between L... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...f State]] [[Madeleine Albright]], born in [[Czechoslovakia]]; and [[Michigan]] [[List of Governors of ...
16: ...should he have succeeded to the Presidency previously and served less than two years completing his pr...
19: ...ally elected officials in the United States. (Legislators are elected on a state-by-state basis; other...
35: ...l. In addition, the president has important [[legislative]] and [[judicial]] powers.
328: ...n 1824, the electors were chosen by the state legislature, with no popular vote. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
35: ...ution opposing the admission of [[Missouri]] as a slave state. In the same year he was chosen a presid...
43: ...uctions from the New York [[State legislature|legislature]] — an action which was cited against ...
55: ...District of Columbia]] without the consent of the slave states.
59: ... He expressed himself plainly on the questions of slavery and the bank, at the same time voting, perha...
63: ...in that year. Nevertheless, Van Buren was unanimously renominated by the Democrats in [[1840]]. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
27: ...ate to [[William Henry Harrison]]. Their campaign slogans of "Log Cabins and Hard Cider" and "Tippecan...
52: *Pearl Tyler ([[June 20]], [[1860]] - [[June 30]], [[1947]]).
58: ... the entire Whig agenda, twice vetoing Clay's legislation for a national banking act following the [[P...
63: ...f a new state constitution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opini...
65: ...ually by all the original States, of which Rhode-Island was one."</blockquote> - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ...zed for failing to prevent the [[country]] from [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American Civil W...
53: ... was graduated from [[Dickinson College]], [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania]]. In [[1809]] he moved to [[Lanc...
66: ...Court was considering the legality of restricting slavery in the territories, and two justices hinted ...
70: ... the majority in that case to uphold the right of slave property.
72: ...herners. Buchanan, meanwhile, was by now tremendously unpopular in the North. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: ...tion]] in [[March]] of [[1861]], seven Southern [[slave state]]s [[secession|seceded]][[Confederate St...
46: ... evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in hi...
48: ...wever, he is most famous for his role in ending [[slavery]] in the United States with the enactment of...
53: ..., Louisiana|New Orleans]] he may have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on h...
61: ...]]. In [[1837]] he made his first protest against slavery in the [[Illinois House of Representatives|I... - 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)
31: Cleveland was a hard worker and was scrupulously honest at a time when many politicians were neit...
36: ... of reform-minded Republicans in the New York legislature. Roosevelt admired Cleveland's stubborn natu...
40: ...an Party|Republicans]], the "[[Mugwumps]]," who disliked the record of his opponent [[James Blaine]] o...
46: ...shment was blocking others' bad ideas. He vigorously pursued a policy barring special favors to any e...
52: ...think there's a burglar in the house." Cleveland sleepily mumbled, "No, no. Perhaps in the Senate, m... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
10: ...d it is unknown if [[Alashiya]] was actually the island of [[Cyprus]].
36: * [[1900 BC|1860 BCE]] - possible [[Suez Canal|Nile-Red Sea Canal]...
57: ...they become knowledgeable seamen. It is contentiously disputed as to whether or not the Egyptians had ...
100: ...Egypt until the coming of [[Christianity]] and [[Islam]]. This was conducted by Egyptian [[priest]]s o...
113: ...[[Lower Egypt]], which seem to have been continuously inhabited by [[Caucasoid]] peoples speaking [[Af... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
87: ...indicate that it had been sold to a Canadian in [[1860]] and exhibited alongside displays such as a two-... - California (63989 bytes)
93: ...arci RodrÃguez de Montalvo]], where there is an island paradise called California. (For further discu...
107: ...o a sudden end, however, when Commodore [[John D. Sloat]] of the [[United States Navy]] sailed into [[...
109: ...f the [[USA]] as a [[free state]] (one in which [[slavery]] was prohibited).
120: ...dently elected constitutional officers, the [[legislative branch]] consisting of the [[California Asse...
122: ...cisions are thus not made on the floor of the legislature but in back-room deals by the "[[Big Five (C... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Michael Easley]] |
42: ...he demise of one, the "Lost Colony" of [[Roanoke Island]], remains one of the great mysteries of Ameri...
48: ...le attempt by Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston to slow Union Gen. Sherman's advance into the Carolinas...
58: ...h Carolina|Raleigh]] and its governor is [[Mike Easley]], a Democrat. Its two U.S. senators are [[Eliz...
62: ...nited States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Mike Easley]]. ''See [[List of North Carolina Governors]]'' - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
52: ...by [[Massachusetts]], and on the east by [[Rhode Island]]. The state capital is [[Hartford, Connecticu...
54: ...rough the center of the state, flowing into Long Island Sound, Connecticut's outlet to the [[Atlantic ...
99: Between [[1800]] and [[1860]], Connecticut manufacturers applied the system t...
229: *[[Wesleyan University]]
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