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| | | American Civil War 1861-1865 timeline |
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| 1860 |
| | Lincoln becomes the Republican presidential candidate, benefiting from a Democratic party split on the issue of slavery | |
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| 1860 |
| | Republican contender Abraham Lincoln is elected US president with only 39% of the popular vote and no electoral votes in eleven southern states | |
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| 1860 |
| | South Carolina becomes the first southern state to secede from the Union in response to Lincoln's election | |
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| 1861 |
| | The seven members of the newly formed Condederacy elect Jefferson Davis as their provisional president | |
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| 1861 |
| | Richmond, the state capital of Virginia, becomes the capital of the Southern Confederacy | |
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| 1861 |
| | Shots are fired against the Federal military garrison in Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbour, launching the American Civil War | |
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