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  • U.S.
    Sunday Mar 3, 1861
    Abraham Lincoln

    Corwin Amendment

    U.S.
    Sunday Mar 3, 1861

    Lincoln tacitly supported the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress and was awaiting ratification by the states when Lincoln took office. That doomed amendment would have protected slavery in states where it already existed. A few weeks before the war, Lincoln sent a letter to every governor informing them Congress had passed a joint resolution to amend the Constitution.




  • U.S
    Monday Mar 4, 1861
    USA civil war

    Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States

    U.S
    Monday Mar 4, 1861

    Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.




  • U.S
    Monday Mar 4, 1861
    USA civil war

    Lincoln's Inaugurations

    U.S
    Monday Mar 4, 1861

    On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as president. In his inaugural address, he argued that the Constitution was a more perfect union than the earlier Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, that it was a binding contract, and called any secession "legally void".




  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Mar 4, 1861
    Abraham Lincoln

    A President

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Mar 4, 1861

    The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began on March 4, 1861, when he was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States.




  • U.S.
    Tuesday Mar 5, 1861
    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address

    U.S.
    Tuesday Mar 5, 1861

    Lincoln directed his inaugural address to the South, proclaiming once again that he had no inclination to abolish slavery in the Southern states: Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." — First inaugural address, 4 March 1861.




  • Rome, Italy
    Sunday Mar 17, 1861
    Unification of Italy

    Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy

    Rome, Italy
    Sunday Mar 17, 1861

    The proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy was the formal act that sanctioned the birth of the unified Kingdom of Italy. It happened with a normative act of the Savoyard Kingdom of Sardinia — the law 17 March 1861, n. 4761 — with which Victor Emmanuel II assumed for himself and for his successors the title of King of Italy.




  • Italy
    Sunday Mar 17, 1861
    Unification of Italy

    The Parliament proclaimed Victor Emmanuel King of Italy

    Italy
    Sunday Mar 17, 1861

    On 17 March 1861, the Parliament proclaimed Victor Emmanuel King of Italy


  • Rome, Italy
    Wednesday Mar 27, 1861
    Unification of Italy

    Rome was declared Capital of Italy

    Rome, Italy
    Wednesday Mar 27, 1861

    on 27 March 1861 Rome was declared Capital of Italy, even though it was not yet in the new Kingdom.


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