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1809
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February 12: Abraham Lincoln is born
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1816
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December: Lincoln family moves to Indiana
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1818
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October: Nancy Hanks Lincoln (Abraham's mother) dies
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1819
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December: Thomas Lincoln marries Sarah Bush Johnston
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1828
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January: Sarah Lincoln (Abraham's sister) dies
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April: Lincoln journeys by flatboat to New Orleans
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1830
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March: Lincoln family moves to Illinois
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1831
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March: Lincoln's second flatboat journey to New Orleans
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July: Lincoln moves to New Salem, Illinois
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1832
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March: Lincoln runs for state legislature
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April-September: Lincoln fights in Black Hawk War
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1834
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August: Lincoln is elected to Illinois House of Representatives (serves four terms)
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1837
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March: Lincoln becomes an attorney
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April: Lincoln moves to Springfield
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1842
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November: Lincoln and Mary Todd marry
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1843
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August: Robert Todd Lincoln is born
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1846
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March: Edward Baker (Eddy) Lincoln is born
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August: Lincoln is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
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1850
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February: Eddy Lincoln dies
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December: William Wallace (Willie) Lincoln is born
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1851
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January: Thomas Lincoln dies
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1853
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April: Thomas (Tad) Lincoln is born
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1855
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February: Lincoln loses race for Senate
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1858
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August-October: Lincoln-Douglas debates
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November: Linoln loses senate race to Douglas
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1860
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May: Lincoln is nominated for presidency
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November: Lincoln is elected president
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1861
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February: Lincoln leaves Springfield
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March 4: Lincoln is inaugurated in Washington
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April 12: Civil War begins
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1862
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February: Willie Lincoln dies
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1863
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January 1: Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation
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November 19: Lincoln gives Gettysburg Address
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December 8: Lincoln issues proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction
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1864
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July 11-12: Lincoln comes under fire at Fort Stevens
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November 8: Lincoln is reelected to presidency
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1865
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March 4: Lincoln's second inauguration
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April 4: Lincoln enters Richmond
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April 9: Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox
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April 14: Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth
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April 15: Abraham Lincoln dies
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April 26: John Wilkes Booth killed by Federal troops
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May 4: Lincoln is buried in Springfield, Illinois
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December 6: 13th Amendment is ratified
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