Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort.

On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, forcing them to surrender, and began the war.

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on a U. S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

He aimed the cannon that fired the first return shot in answer to the Confederate bombardment on April 12, 1861.

In April 1861, early in the American Civil War, Corbett enlisted as a private in Company I of the 12 Regiment New York Militia.

The story opens in April 1861 at the " Tara " plantation, which is owned by a wealthy Irish immigrant family, the O ' Haras.

" Boston Museum playbill advertising Booth in Romeo and Juliet, May 3, 1864 When the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, Booth was starring in Albany, New York.

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began, and eventually 11 Southern states seceded from the Union.

Stuart was promoted to captain on April 22, 1861, but resigned from the U. S. Army on May 3, 1861, to join the Confederate States Army, following the secession of Virginia.

When the American Civil War began in April 1861, Kit Carson resigned his post as federal Indian agent for northern New Mexico.

A later proposal by William Barton Rogers led to a charter for the incorporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was signed by the governor of Massachusetts on April 10, 1861.

In April 1861, the group published the first sample pages ; later that month, the thirty year old Coleridge died of tuberculosis.

When Virginia declared its secession from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his personal desire for the Union to stay intact and despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln had offered Lee command of the Union Army.

They provided the bodyguard at his inauguration on March 4, 1861, and at his funeral in April, 1865.

On April 13, 1861, Confederate troops attacked Union Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina forcing surrender.

Virginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers.

* American Civil War fought between the remaining United States of America under President Abraham Lincoln and the self-declared Confederate States of America under President Jefferson Davis ( April 12, 1861 — April 9, 1865 ) and Vice President Alexander Stephens.

* April 23 – Abd-ul-Mejid I, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1861 )

* April 23 – Stephen A. Douglas, U. S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate ( d. 1861 )

The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861.

< center > Illustrated Map of Pony Express Route in 1860 </ center >< center > by William Henry Jackson </ center >< center > ~ Courtesy the Library of Congress ~</ center >< center > The Pony Express mail route, April 3, 1860 – October 24, 1861 ; Reproduction of Jackson illustration issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pony Express founding on April 3, 1960.

* April 16 – Sandy Hawley, Canadian jockey

Willis C. Hawley ( left ) and Reed Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act passed the House of Representatives.

Hawley formally resigned from the paper in early 1993, and pleaded guilty in April 1993.

Willis C. Hawley ( left ) and Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act passed the House.

* April 16-Sandy Hawley, jockey

Hawley ( left ) and Reed Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act passed the House.

Desmond Sanford " Sandy " Hawley, CM ( born April 16, 1949 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada ) is a Hall of Fame jockey.

Faced with continuing poor results, and two hostile takeover attempts by The Limited in 1984 and 1986, the company, still led by Phillip M. Hawley, reacted by first selling Waldenbooks to K-mart in 1985, Holt Renfrew to the Weston Family in April 1986, Wanamaker's to A. Alfred Taubman's Woodward & Lothrop in January 1987 and then splitting off the desirable specialty store business as Neiman-Marcus Group, Inc. ( encompassing the Neiman-Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Contempo Casuals stores ).

After the war, Hawley served as governor of Connecticut from April 1866 to April 1867, but was not re-elected.

Willis C. Hawley ( left ) and Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act passed the House.

Hawley wrote to Dwight on April, 29, 1801 to tell him of the death of his son James, eight days after his visit.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

The dedication stone for the church has survived to the present day ; it is dated 23 April 685, and as Bede would have been required to assist with menial tasks in his day-to-day life it is possible that he helped in building the original church.

Maria and Liam's baby son was stillborn in April, and during an estrangement from Maria upon the death of their baby, Liam had a one night stand with Carla, a story which helped pave the way for his departure.

In April 2002, Lewis had a Medtronic " Synergy " neurostimulator implanted in his back, which has helped reduce the discomfort.

In April 2011 Verizon helped Janet upgrade 4 central locations to run at 100Gbit / s bringing it to a national research and education network performance parity with Internet2 ( which upgraded its backbone to 100Gbit / s in October 2007 ).

Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, a representative of President Jackson who helped to present a compromise to both governors. On April 3, 1835, Jackson sent two representatives from Washington, D. C., Richard Rush of Pennsylvania and Benjamin Chew Howard of Maryland, to Toledo to arbitrate the conflict and present a compromise to both governments.

William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

When Eckard was assassinated in April, Bolesław I lent his support to Henry IV, Duke of Bavaria, and helped him ascend to the German throne as Henry II.

In April 1720, Walpole's wing of the Whig party reconciled with the governing wing, and Walpole and Caroline helped to effect a reconciliation between the King and her husband for the sake of public unity.

Though they arrived too late to save Danbury from burning, the elder Ludington and the New York militia helped support the Danbury troops and ensuing engagement of the British known as the Battle of Ridgefield on April 27, 1777.

Three men who helped to perpetrate this swindle, including the county attorney and a judge of the county court, were shot and killed on April 24, 1872 while on board a Katy railroad spur between Bryson, Missouri and Paola, Kansas ( in or near what is now known as Gunn City ).

Johnston and Beauregard met with President Davis on April 13 and their assessment of the Confederate situation helped convince Davis that Johnston should meet with Sherman to negotiate a surrender of his army.

The Board of Home Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America had previously met with 20 area residents and helped to form a Sunday Church School, which first met on April 8 of that year.

In April 1981, Freddy helped curate ( with Futura 2000 and Keith Haring ) the graffiti-related art show " Beyond Words " at the Mudd Club, which contained their own work along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rammellzee, Afrika Bambaataa, and others.

According to his file, a stranger had found him in the street on 1 April and helped him to a hospital.

Jean Vigo ( 26 April 1905, Paris – 5 October 1934 ) was a French film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s and was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The legislative elections on August 28, 1910 had elected 14 new representatives ( resulting in an assembly that was divided: 9 % Republican, 58 % Government and 33 % Opposition ) which helped the revolutionary cause, but which made little importance since the Setubal Congress ( on 24 – 25 April 1909 ) had determined that the Republicans would take power by force.

Also on 14 April 1961, a Cubana airliner was hijacked and flown to Jacksonville, Florida ; resultant confusion then helped discovery of the staged ' defection ' of a B-26 and pilot at Miami on 15 April.

* Rachel Carson, ( May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964 ) a marine biologist who became a famous writer, best known for her 1962 book Silent Spring, which confronted the chemical industry and helped to spur legislation for regulation and control of DDT and other industrially and domestically used substances.

Revelation of the contents outraged American public opinion and helped generate support for the United States declaration of war on Germany in April.

Diercks himself helped the spread of pilottone in the USA when he was the only Western reporter allowed to shoot in Havanna during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961.

The last publicly broadcast words uttered in the park were by Harry Kalas — a veteran announcer who helped open the facility on April 10, 1971 — who paraphrased his trademark home run call: " And now, Veterans Stadium is like a 3-1 pitch to Jim Thome or Mike Schmidt.

On April 10, 1945, the American liberation military forces under the 1st Cavalry Division and the 11th Airborne Division of the United States Army was captured in Atinoman, Tayabas and they helped and aiding the local Filipino ground troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary units and the local guerrilla resistance fighters and defeated and attacking Japanese soldiers.