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.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

The Confederacy selected Jefferson Davis as its provisional President on February 9, 1861.

On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D. C., which was placed under substantial military guard.

Abdülaziz ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز / ` Abdü ’ l -` Azīz ; February 9 / 18, 1830 – June 4, 1876 ) was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876.

He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.

On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America ; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November.

Jefferson Davis is sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861, on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol.

" He was inaugurated on February 18, 1861.

Having served since February as the provisional president, Davis was elected to a full six-year term on November 6, 1861 and was inaugurated on February 22, 1862.

Published in 27 issues from June 9, 1858 to February 4, 1861, Le Libertaire was the first anarcho-communist journal published in America.

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner ( 25 / 27 February 1861 – 30 March 1925 ) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist.

In 1880, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee ( July 29, 1861 – February 14, 1884 ) of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

* February 23 – Dame Nellie Melba, Australian soprano ( b. 1861 )

February 7: HMS Orpheus ( 1861 ) | HMS Orpheus sinks.

* February 5 – Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer ( b. 1861 )

* February 3 – Auguste Vaillant, French anarchist ( b. 1861 ) ( executed )

* February 14 – Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, first wife of Theodore Roosevelt ( b. 1861 )

* February 17 – Lola Montez, Irish Spanish dancer and royal mistress ( d. 1861 )

* February 8 – Barnard Elliott Bee, Jr., Confederate general ( d. 1861 )

Lewis M. Clement, Chief Assistant Engineer and Superintendent of TrackFrom January or February 1861 until July, Judah and Strong led a 10-person expedition to survey the route for the railroad over the Sierra Nevada, through Clipper Gap, Emigrant Gap, Donner Pass, and south to Truckee.

Feeling pressured by the Northern states, Alabama declared its secession in January 1861 and joined the Confederate States of America in February.

" On February 13, 1861, the newly elected President Lincoln arrived in Cincinnati by train to make a speech.

Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS ( 15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947 ) was an English mathematician and philosopher.

On February 15, 1933, 23 days after this amendment was ratified, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara.

* February 23 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D. C. after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.

* February 15 – In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak.

Lavín was narrowly defeated in his bid for a Senate seat in the general election held in December 2009, but on 10 February 2010, President-elect Sebastián Piñera named him Secretary of Education.

He was known for his courage, and met President-elect Abraham Lincoln upon his arrival in Washington, D. C. on February 23, 1861.

One of his early films was Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King, a satire made in February 1901 about the then Vice President-elect, Theodore Roosevelt.

During a nationally televised address on 22 February Tymoshenko said of President-elect of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and " Yanukovych's team " ( she referred to them in the speech as " The oligarchy "): " They need cheap labour, poor and disenfranchised people who can be forced to work at their factories for peanuts, they also need Ukraine's riches, which they have been stealing for the last 18 years.

* February 23, 1861: The people of Texas ratified its Ordinance of Secession President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington, D. C. after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

* Abraham Lincoln's birthday: February 12, United States

The first dated Hebrew printed book was Rashi's commentary on the Chumash, printed by Abraham ben Garton in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, 18 February 1475.

* William Wallace Lincoln, third son of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, died February 20, 1862 of typhoid fever.

* February 26 – Abraham Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law.

* February 2 – Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer ( b. 1610 )

* February 17 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-born Israeli mathematician and recipient of the Israel Prize ( d. 1965 )

* February 5 – Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln ( d. 1818 )

* February 15 – Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence ( d. 1794 )

* February 14 – Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist ( b. c. 1604 )

The settlement was invaded by seven Dutch ships ( from the Zeeland region ), led by Abraham Crijnssen, on 26 February 1667.

On February 11, 1861, Abraham Lincoln stopped in State Line on his way from Springfield, Illinois to Washington, D. C. for his inauguration.

Abraham Lincoln was born in a small cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville on February 12, 1809.

President-Elect Abraham Lincoln made a brief appearance in the city as his inaugural train traveled from Cincinnati to Columbus on Wednesday morning, February 13, 1861.

On February 12, 2002, U. S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham made the decision that this site was suitable to be the nation's nuclear repository.

* Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln, delivered at the request of both Houses of the Congress of America, before them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866 ( Washington, 1866 )

His father, Rab Gershon ben Abraham Gerchunoff was murdered by a gaucho on February 12, 1891.

Abraham David " Abe " Beame ( March 20, 1906 – February 10, 2001 ) was mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977 .< ref >

Abraham Washington " Abe " Attell ( February 22, 1884 – February 7, 1970 ), known in the boxing world as Abe " The Little Hebrew " Attell, was a boxer who became known for his record-setting six-year reign as World Featherweight Champion.

Abraham Raimbach ( 16 February 1776 – 17 January 1843 ), was an English line-engraver of Swiss descent.

Abraham Hayward ( November 22, 1801 – February 2, 1884 ) was an English man of letters.