Abe Lincoln - Cinta de tiempo

2/12/1809- Abraham Lincoln is born at Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky

December 1816- The Lincoln family moves to Perry County, Indiana

10/5/1818- Lincoln's mother dies milk sickness

12/2/1819- Lincoln's father marries Sarah Bush Johnston

1827- The Lincoln family moves to New Salem, Illinois

1832- Lincoln runs for the illinois legislature and loses

11/4/1842- Lincoln marries Mary Todd

8/1/1843- The Lincolns' first son, Robert Todd Lincoln, is born

3/10/1846- Edward Baker Lincoln is born

1846- Lincoln is elected to the U.S. House of Represenitives

2/1/1850- Edward Lincoln (age 3) dies of pulmonary tuberculosis

12/21/1850- William Wallace Lincoln (Willie) is born

4/4/1853- A fourth son, Thomas was born

1854- Lincoln is re-elected to the Illinois state legislature, but soon resigns to run for a U.S. Senate seat, which he doesnt attain

1856- Lincoln helps found the Republican Party in illinois, which adopts an antislavery platform

6/16/1858- Lincoln gives his "A House Divided" speech upon accepting the nomination for U.S. Senate. He loses to Stephen Douglas

3/4/1861- Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th president

4/12/1861 - 4/13/1861: The Civil War begins when the Confederates attack Fort Sumter

1/1/1863- Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclomation

11/19/1863- Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address

4/8/1864- The U.S. Senate passes the 13th Ammendment formally abolishing slavery

11/8/1864- Lincoln is re-elected

1/31/1865- The U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment

4/9/1865- Confederate general Robert E Lee surrenders to Union general Ulysses S Grant

4/14/1865- Lincoln is shot by an assassin and dies the next morning

1834-1842: lincoln serves 4 terms in the illionis State Legislature and studies to be a lawyer

December 1860 - February 1861: Seven southern states secede from the Union