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.

During the American Revolutionary War, the Onondagas sided with the British, and Onondaga was attacked by the Continental Army on April 21, 1779.

The senate confirmed the new emperor on 2 April and many of the provinces gladly sided with Gordian.

In an event called " Thinking Football ", aiming to reflect on the role of football in modern society, the Athletic de Bilbao Foundation organised among other things a three sided football championship taking place from October 2011 to April 2012 with 37 participant teams.

After an American attack on their main village on April 20, 1779, the Onondaga later sided with the majority of the League and fought against the American colonists in alliance with the British.

On April 1, 2009 international arbitrators and its partner sided with Newmont rejecting Jakarta's request to have their contract revoked, which would have forced the company to walk away from the property without any compensation, instead Newmont is forced to sell a 17 % stake in an Indonesian subsidiary within 180 days.

Jimma was the scene of a violent encounter which started in April 1975 between radical college students ( known as zemacha ) sent to organize local peasants, who had benefited from land reform, and local police, who had sided with local landowners.

On April 14, 2006, on appeal, the United States sided with the UKB against the Cherokee Nation's request for dismissal.

Replacing the discontinued Medical Technicians Bulletin, publication of which was suspended with the November-December 1959 issue, a section called `` Technical Notes '' was inaugurated on a bimonthly basis beginning with the April 1960 issue.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

Your invitation to write about Serge Prokofieff to honor his 70th Anniversary for the April issue of Sovietskaya Muzyka is accepted with pleasure, because I admire the music of Prokofieff ; ;

The outgoing members, whose four-year terms will expire a week after the April 18 primary election, received carved wooden elephants, complete with ivory tusks, to remember the state committee by.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

Lee said he had told the jury that he made an agreement in April with Stein to supply and supervise janitors in McCormick Place.

It was a Saturday evening in April with a mist-like rain, and I was a little high on the good taste of life.

* On April 15, 1912 the RMS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg with a loss of more than 1, 500 lives.

Johnston launched a massive surprise attack with his concentrated forces against Grant at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862.

April is the fourth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and one of four months with a length of 30 days.

April ( ) is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern hemisphere and autumn in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell launched the talks on April 3, 2001, and the negotiations continued with mediation by the U. S., Russia, and France until April 6, 2001.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

His exact date of death remains unclear as well, with most research pointing toward it being between April 14, 1202, and April 5, 1203.

The battle which followed on April 6, 402 ( coinciding with Easter ), was a victory for Rome, though a costly one.

Alexios overcame this crisis by entering into an alliance with a horde of 40, 000 Cumans, with whose help he crushed the Pechenegs at Levounion in Thrace on 29 April 1091.

In April 1866 he nominated Henry Stanbery to fill the vacancy left with the death of John Catron, but the Republican Congress eliminated the seat to prevent the appointment.

The choice was unfortunate, for Theodahad fostered the disaffection of the Goths, and either by his orders or with his permission, Amalasuntha was imprisoned in the island of Martana in the Tuscan lake of Bolsena, where on 30 April in the spring of 534 / 535 she was murdered in her bath.

Finished on April 24, 1459, it was sent to Portugal with a letter to Prince Henry the Navigator, Afonso's uncle, encouraging further funding of exploration trips.

In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.