CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

LIFE OF LINCOLN. CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY. AMERICAN HISTORY.

1809. Lincoln born, 1809. Gladstone, 1809. Madison President. Feb. 12. Darwin, Tennyson, Poe, Holmes born.

1813. Douglas born.

1816. Family moved 1816. Indiana admitted to Indiana. as a state.

1818. Mother died. 1818. Illinois admitted as a state.

1819. Father married Sarah Johnston.

1820. Missouri Compromise.

1821. Missouri admitted as a state.

1822. Grant born.

1829. Jackson President.

1830. Family moved 1830. Douglas moved 1830. Speeches of Hayne to Illinois. to New York. and Webster.

1831. Settled in 1831. Publication of New Salem. The Liberatur.

1832. Enlisted in the 1832. Founding of the Black Hawk War: New England Anti-Slavery unsuccessful Society. candidate for the legislature

1833. Postmaster of 1833. Douglas moved 1833. Founding of the New Salem; deputy to Illinois. American Anti-Slavery surveyor's clerk. Society.

1834. Elected to the 1834. Douglas admitted legislature. to the bar.

1835. Douglas elected State's Attorney.

1836. Reelected to 1836. Douglas elected the legislature. to the legislature. Presidential Elector.

1837. Admitted to 1837. Douglas 1837. Van Buren the bar. Moved appointed Registrar President. Murder to Springfield. of the Land Office; of Owen Lovejoy. nominated for Congress.

1838. Reelected to the legislature.

1840. Presidential 1840. Douglas Elector. appointed Judge of the Illinois Supreme Court.

1841. Harrison President. Tyler President.

1843. Married to Mary Todd.

1844. Presidential 1844. Douglas elected Elector. to Congress.

1845. Polk President. Texas admitted as a state.

1846. Elected to 1846-48. War with Mexico. Congress.

1847. Douglas elected U.S. Senator; moved to Chicago.

1848. Presidential Elector.

1849. Taylor President.

1850. Death of Calhoun.

1850. Fillmore President. Clay's Compromise Measure.

1852. Death of Clay and of Webster.

1853. Douglas 1853. Pierce President. reelected Senator.

1854. Reelected to the 1854. Kansas-Nebraska legislature. Bill.

1855. Resigned from the legislature. Candidate for the U. S. Senate.

1856. Candidate for 1856. Fremont first nomination for Republican candidate for Vice-President. the presidency. Civil war in Kansas.

1857. Buchanan President. The Dred Scott Decision.

1858. Candidate for 1858. Lincoln-Douglas the U. S. Senate. Debates.

1859. Douglas 1859. Death of John reelected Brown. to the Senate.

1860. Cooper Institute 1860. Douglas 1860. South Carolina Address. Elected Democratic Ordinance of Secession. President. candidate for the Presidency.

1861. Left Springfield, 1861. Douglas died, 1861. Fall of Fort Sumter, Feb. 11; inaugurated June 3. April 12. Battle March 4. McClellan of Bull Run, July 21. Commander-in-Chief. Kansas admitted as a state.

1862. The Preliminary 1862. Slavery abolished Emancipation in the District of Proclamation, Sept. 22. Columbia, April 16.

1863. The Final 1863. Battle of Emancipation Gettysburg, July 1-5. Proclamation, Jan. 1. The Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19.

1864. Reelected to 1864. Grant 1864. Battles of the the Presidency. appointed Wilderness, May 6-7. Lieutenant-General.

1865. Inaugurated, 1865. Fall of Richmond, Mar. 4. Assassinated, April 3. Surrender of April 14; died April Lee, April 9. Johnson 15; buried at sworn in as President, Springfield, May 4. April 15.