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