1861

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s

Years: 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 - 1861 - 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866

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Events

• January 1 - Benito Juarez captures Mexico City
• January 3 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States
• January 9 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding the American Civil War.
• January 10 - Florida secedes from the United States
• January 11 - Alabama secedes from the United States
• January 14 - Mehmed VI, future Ottoman sultan.
• January 18 - Georgia joins the Confederacy
• January 21 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate
• January 26 - American Civil War: Louisiana secedes from the Union.
• January 29 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• February 1 - American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
• February 4 - American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama the Confederate States of America is formed by delegates from six break-away United States.
• February 8 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed.
• February 9 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
• February 11 - American Civil War: US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
• February 18 - In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
• February 18 - Victor Emmanuel of Savoy becomes King of Italy
• February 19 - Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
• February 23 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, DC after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.
• February 27 - A crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian troops killing five protesters.
• February 28 - Colorado is organized as a United Sates territory[?].
• March 2 - Nevada is organized as a United States territory[?].
• March 4 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
• March 11 - The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
• March 17 - Proclamation of the kingdom of Italy.
• March 19 - Maori War[?] ends in New Zealand
• April 12 - United States Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, South Carolina
• April 27 - President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in the United States.
• April 27 - American Civil War: West Virginia secedes from Virginia.
• May 6 - American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
• May 7 - American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• May 8 - American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
• May 13 - American Civil War: Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
• May 20 - American Civil War: Kentucky proclaims its neutrality which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state.

• Abraham Lincoln succeeds James Buchanan as President of the United States of America
• Kansas becomes 34th state in the United States
• Victor Emmanuel becomes first king of Italy
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Abd-ul-Mejid (1839-1861) to Abd-ul-Aziz (1861-1876)
• Sir William Crookes discovers Thallium (see Discovery of the chemical elements)

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

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Births

• January 14 - Sultan Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire (+ 1926)
• February 12 - Lou Andreas-Salome[?], author (+ 1937)
• February 26 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (+ 1948)
• February 27 - Rudolf Steiner, anthroposoph (+ 1925)
• April 15 - Bliss Carman, poet
• May 6 - Rabindranath Tagore
• October 30 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
• November 6 - James Naismith, inventor of basketball
• December 8 - Georges Méliès , French film director, allegedly the first.
• December 16 - Antonio de La Gandara, painter

Deaths

• January 17 - Lola Montez (adventurer)
• June 25 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman sultan
• December 14 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria

Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)

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hated. Is not that true? Yes, he said, quite true. In that case, the one loves, and the other is loved? Yes. Then which is the friend of which? Is the lover the friend of the beloved, is there no friendship at all on either side, unless they both love one saying that both were friends, if one only loved; but now, unless they both nor lovers of quails, nor of dogs, nor of wine, nor of gymnastic exercises, return. Or shall we say that they do love them, although they are not hoofs, and dogs of chase, and the stranger of another land'? I do not think that he was wrong. You think that he is right? Yes. Then, Menexenus, the conclusion is, that what is beloved, whether loving or too young to love, or even hating their father or mother when they are being hated by them. I think that what you say is true. And, if so, not the lover, but the beloved, is the friend or dear one? Yes. And the hated one, and not the hater, is the enemy? Clearly. Then many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and how absurd, my dear friend, or indeed impossible is this paradox of a man may be the friend of one who is not his friend, or who may be his enemy, .