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.

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.

In April 2006, the Chadian rebel group United Front for Democratic Change, which is based in Darfur used C. A. R.

On April 13, 2007 ( Friday the 13th ), a group of students from The California Tech, Caltech's campus newspaper, arrived and distributed fake copies of The Tech, MIT's campus newspaper, while prospective students were visiting for their Campus Preview Weekend.

By 1974, another challenge to the state's authority and legitimacy had come from 19 April Movement ( M-19 ), a mostly urban guerrilla group founded allegedly in response to an electoral fraud during the final National Front election of Misael Pastrana ( 1970 – 1974 ) and the defeat of former dictator Gustavo Rojas.

Dayton was founded on April 1, 1796, seven years before the admission of Ohio to the Union in early 1803, by a group of 12 settlers known as " The Thompson Party.

According to the project's Facebook group, the English-language DVD has been released in Denmark on April 16, 2011 and is available internationally through the website forlaget-afart. dk /.

The group toured extensively from 3 February till 13 April 1976 promoting the album in the US, playing 68 shows in 76 days ( see Face the Music ).

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

* Cushman, John H. " Industrial group plans to battle climate treaty ", The New York Times, April 26, 1998.

On 16 April 2012 Military leaders and a group of political parties in Guinea-Bissau have announced the formation of a Transitional National Council.

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

On April 26, 2010, Hefner donated the last $ 900, 000 sought by a conservation group for a land purchase needed to stop the development of the famed vista of the Hollywood Sign.

A group of seventeen authors headed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported the discovery of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a male, in the Big Woods area of Arkansas in 2004 and 2005, publishing the report in the journal Science on 28 April 2005 ( Fitzpatrick et al., 2005 ).

After the Liberal Party left the coalition in April 2000, Prime Minister Mori welcomed a Liberal Party splinter group, the New Conservative Party, into the ruling coalition.

On April 10, 2010, during the annual ( non-university sanctioned ) block party, police equipped with riot gear used force to disperse a group of 8, 000 college-aged individuals were gathered in the townhouse development on Village Lane, just off campus.

Concurrently, tension between Syria and Phalange increased Israeli support for the Maronite group and led to direct Israeli-Syrian exchanges in April 1981, leading to American diplomatic intervention.

In April 2011 an urban exploration group called the " Consolidation Crew " published accounts of illicit access to the tunnels.

Ham remained musically active and played sax with the Melbourne-based group The Nudist Funk Orchestra until his death in April 2012.

Occidental College was founded on April 20, 1887, by a group of Presbyterian clergy and laymen, including James George Bell.

The phonograph cylinder recordings of Handel's choral music made on June 29, 1888 at The Crystal Palace in London were thought to be the oldest known surviving musical recordings, until the recent playback by a group of American historians of a waveform of " Au Clair de la Lune ", recorded on a phonautograph on April 9, 1860.

On 20 April 1998, an eight-page typewritten letter in German was faxed to the Reuters news agency, signed " RAF " with the submachine-gun red star, declaring that the group had dissolved.

On 20 April 1998, an eight-page typewritten letter in German was faxed to the Reuters news agency, signed " RAF " with the machine-gun red star, declaring the group dissolved:

In April 2003, the ROM hacking group Demiforce released a fan translation rendering Radical Dreamers in English.

Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the track, signalling, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and all but a handful of the stations of the British railway system from its formation in April 1994 until 2002.

In April 1968, a group of senior military officers who called themselves the Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement led by Brigadier General John Amadu Bangura overthrew the NRC junta.