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1858

Abraham Linclon comes to national prominence through his debates on slavery with Stephen Douglas, his rival for an Illinois seat in the Senate

1860

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

South Carolina becomes the first southern state to secede from the Union in response to Lincoln's election

1862

Lincoln declares in his Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves in any state opposing the Union government 'are and henceforward shall be free'

1863

Four days of riots in New York greet Lincoln's new conscription or draft laws, with exemptions for the rich

1863

President Lincoln, in honouring the Union dead at Gettysburg, captures in three minutes the essence of American democracy

1864

President Lincoln is re-elected for a second term, thanks largely to recent Union successes on the Civil War battlefields

1865

Lincoln visits the Confederate capital at Richmond and is greeted by a jubilant crowd of freed Negroes

1865

On a visit to a Washington theatre, Lincoln is assassinated in his box by John Wilkes Booth

Lincoln assassinated, 1865
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