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- Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
1: ...tietam.jpg|thumb|More than 550,000 Americans died fighting the Civil War, include these men felled dur...
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]]
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing) - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
84: *[[Jane Addams|Addams, Jane]], (1860-1935), [[social work]]er - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
10: In [[1857]], she published "Amos Barton," the first of the "Scenes of Clerical Life" in ''[[Blackw...
15: ...of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas''... Now in this vast ugliness reside...
29: * ''[[The Mill on the Floss]]'' (1860)
49: She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry. - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
3: ...eminist]], the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
5: ...inburgh]] Extra-Mural school. She had no less difficulty in gaining a qualifying diploma to practise ...
7: ...gree of M.D. The same year she was elected to the first [[London School Board]], at the head of the po...
11: ... 1908 she was elected mayor of [[Aldeburgh]], the first woman mayor in the whole of England. The move... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...t to nursing, a career with a poor reputation and filled mostly by poorer women. Traditionally, the ro...
11: ...ading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of [[C...
19: ...ightingale's pioneering work in Crimea and in the field of nursing, and Nightingale became a key advis...
27: ...ts began to filter back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On [[October 21]], [...
31: ... for by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference. [[Medicine]]s were in short sup... - Beehive (beekeeping) (7741 bytes)
5: ...f varying dimensions, with or without frames, and finally replaced by Langstroth equipment.
9: ''Skeps'' and other fixed-frame hives are no longer in wide use (and are...
22: ...lphur into the gum, an act that modern beekeepers find abhorrent.
27: ... plus regional variations such as the British Modified National Hive. The Langstroth hive is the most ...
31: ...new colonies. Langstroth presented his design in 1860 and it has become the standard style hive for 75%... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: .... This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of rivers vary over time (especia...
38: ... 1) it flows over 6 groups of cataracts, from the first at Aswan to the sixth at Sabaloka (just north ...
42: ...ediments carried eastward by currents nurture the fishing industries of the Eastern Mediterranean, or ...
46: ...Stone Age]]. Climate change - or perhaps [[desertification|overgrazing]] - about 10,000 years ago [[de...
48: ...th century]], when [[John Hanning Speke]] was the first to identify it as Lake Victoria. Various earli... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...d is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was ...
7: ...head of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nation...
11: == Requirements to hold office ==
14: ...mmigrants to American society. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because ...
16: ...wo four-year terms or a maximum of ten years in office should he have succeeded to the Presidency prev... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March...
14: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
22: ...n-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English language|English]...
27: ...nued in active and successful practice for twenty-five years.
29: His practice made him financially independent, and paved the way for his e... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[April 4]], [[1841]] - [[March 4]]...
13: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler...
21: ... of Independence]], and the first to assume the office of President following the death of his predece...
25: ... aggressive handling of the South Carolina [[nullification]] issue.
29: ... (until the [[1967]] ratification of the [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|25... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
13: | '''Term of Office:'''
37: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
50: ...[[resident]] of [[Pennsylvania]] to hold that [[office]]. He has been criticized for failing to preve...
53: ...hairman of the Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-first Congress). He was not a candidate for renomin...
57: ...c Party|Democrat]] to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Willia... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
44: ...nto federal territories, and his victory in the [[1860 presidential election]] further polarized the nat...
46: ...f the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt t... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
12: ! Term of Office:
46: ...1867]] and [[1868]], and was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses ([[Marc... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>
21: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (siste...
25: ...], [[List of leaders who died in office|died in office]])<br>
36: ...c Office is a Public Trust" as his trademark of office, and was later elected, [[Governor of New York]...
39: ...d_wedding.png|left|thumb|Grover Cleveland was the first and only President married in the White House.... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
14: ...ns. From the time of the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First dynasty]] or before, the Egyptians [[Mining|mi...
16: ...e roots of the [[Scientific method#History|Scientific method]] may be traced back to the ancient Egypt...
25: ...2900 BC|2900 BCE]] - [[Senet]], world's oldest confirmed [[board game]]
36: * [[1900 BC|1860 BCE]] - possible [[Suez Canal|Nile-Red Sea Canal]...
53: ...AO/bswbao0804ancient.html] from the [[1st century|first]] or [[2nd century|second century]] found in t... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
2: ...g from [[decomposition]] by either natural or artificial means, has retained its physical form. This c...
4: ...at have been [[embalming|embalmed]] with the specific purpose of preservation, particularly those in [...
6: ...have been recovered from submerged [[cypress]] coffins packed with medicinal herbs.
12: ...istorians record that the Persians sometimes mummified their kings and nobility in wax, though this pr...
15: ...:Louvre egyptologie 21.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Mummified cat from Ancient Egypt. [[Mus�e du Louvre]], ... - California (63989 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
32: ...Zone = [[Pacific Standard Time Zone|Pacific]]: [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]-8/[[Daylig...
44: ...tate symbols please verify your changes against official California Government Code sections 420-429.8...
55: ... = [[Golden Trout]]; marine - [[Garibaldi (fish)|Garibaldi]] |
89: ...]]; see [[economy of California]]). The state's official nickname is "The Golden State" in reference t... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
14: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
42: ...], both ending in failure. [[Virginia Dare]], the first English child to be born stateside, was born i...
44: ...s later. In April [[1776]], the colony became the first to instruct its delegates to the Continental C...
46: On [[November 21]], [[1789]], North Carolina ratified the Constitution to become the twelfth state in...
48: ...obert E. Lee]]'s surrender at Appomattox, but the final surrender in North Carolina came at [[Waynesvi... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''English'' |
43: ... English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fundamental Orders of Con...
49: ...Lieberman]] (Democrat). Connecticut currently has five [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Connectic...
56: ... to the rolling mountains and farms of the [[Litchfield Hills]] and the casinos of [[Southeastern Conn...
65: ...sts, new residents, and internal state pride. Fairfield County's "[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast...
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