President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

It was accepted by the War Department on May 6, 1861, effective May 3.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

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.

" 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.

When Virginia joined the Confederacy, Davis moved his government to Richmond in May 1861.

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.

Stuart was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel of Virginia Infantry in the Confederate Army on May 10, 1861.

William and Jane had two daughters, Jane Alice ( Jenny ), born January 1861, who developed epilepsy in her teens, and Mary ( May ) ( March 1862 – 1938 ), who became the editor of her father's works, a prominent socialist, and an accomplished designer and craftswoman.

Born as a result of the railroad being built here instead of at Middleton to the west in 1860, Winona was originally a part of Carroll County and was incorporated as a town on May 2, 1861.

* May 16 – Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1861 )

* May 22 – Helen Taft, Wife of President William Howard Taft ( b. 1861 )

* May 14 – Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, British soldier and administrator ( b. 1861 )

May 13: C / 1861 J1 | Great Comet.

* May 12 – John Martin Poyer, United States Navy Commander and the 12th Governor of American Samoa ( b. 1861 )

* May 19 – Son, Byong-Hi, Korean activist ( b. 1861 )

* May 13 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1861 )

* May 13 – Catherine Gore, an English author ( d. 1861 )

Sherman was first commissioned as colonel of the 13th U. S. Infantry regiment, effective May 14, 1861.

President Lincoln, however, was impressed by Sherman while visiting the troops on July 23 and promoted him to brigadier general of volunteers ( effective May 17, 1861, with seniority in rank to Ulysses S. Grant, his future commander ).

* Colonel, USA – 14 May 1861

* Brigadier General, of Volunteers – 17 May 1861

or ) ( 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926 ) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1918 to 1922.

Though they won a narrow majority, it fell short of the 40 per cent required, accelerating the fall of the Labour Government, in May 1979.

In May 1954, the Egyptian archaeologist Kamal el-Mallakh discovered a fourth pit, a long, narrow rectangle, still covered with slabs of stone weighing up to 15 tons.

Between 17 May 2006 and 21 February 2007 Romano Prodi served as Prime Minister of Italy following the narrow victory of his l ' Unione coalition over the Casa delle Libertà led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections.

On 26 May 2006, the Belgian Football Association decided not to use the King Baudouin Stadium anymore for the national team home matches and for the Cup final, because the gates of stand one were too narrow and the stadium was deemed unsafe.

It was not until May 1898 that the White Pass and Yukon Route began laying narrow gauge railroad tracks in Skagway.

The city connects to nearby Coronado, California, named Best Beach in America in May 2012, by way of the Silver Strand, a narrow, 7 mile long isthmus.

For the introduction of the London and North Eastern Railway's non-stop Flying Scotsman service on 1 May 1928, ten special tenders were built with means to reach the locomotive from the train through a narrow passageway inside the tender tank plus a flexible bellows connection linking it with the leading coach.

The station on the broad gauge Northern Counties Committee railway line opened on 3 November 1884, closed for passenger traffic on 1 January 1938, closed for goods traffic on 2 May 1938 and finally closed altogether on the same date as its narrow gauge counterpart in 1950.

When she ran for a new full term, she was defeated by a narrow margin in the May 2012 Republican primary.

Cape May is a peninsula and island ( divided by a narrow channel ); the southern tip of the island is the southernmost point of the state of New Jersey, United States.

It is well known for its viticulture, a museum dedicated to writer Karl May and a narrow gauge railway connecting Radebeul with the castle of Moritzburg and the town of Radeburg.

On May 1, 1703, during the Ingrian campaign of the Great Northern War, the fortress of Nyenskans was taken by Peter the Great and renamed Schlotburg ( Shlotburg ), " Neck-town ", after the long narrow section of the Neva river where it was located ( German " Schlot " corresponds to "( funnel ) neck, narrows, chimney ").

May 30, 1630, Captain Squib of the ship Mary and John entered Boston Harbor and on June 17, 1630 landed a boat with eight men on the Dorchester shore, at what was then a narrow peninsula known as Mattapan or Mattaponnock, and today is known as Columbia Point ( more popularly since 1984 as Harbor Point ).

On May 29, Tokarev and NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa temporarily stowed docking targets and lights and checked hatch seals in the narrow passageway inside the Pressurized Mating Adapter ( PMA 2 ).

The seat previously had seen Shersby win a narrow victory over Labour Party candidate David Williams in May, but Williams was not selected for the by-election candidate shortlist, as he was seen as too left-wing, and therefore unelectable, even though his supporters argued for the selection for this locally-based politician.

* Londonderry and Strabane section, formerly part of the narrow gauge Donegal Railway () was vested in the MR ( NCC ) in May 1906.

Clogher railway station ( on the narrow gauge Clogher Valley Railway ) opened on 2 May 1887, but finally closed on 1 January 1942.

In the deciding fight on 28 May 1935, McLarnin lost his title for the final time in a narrow decision, and for the rest of his life McLarnin claimed he had done enough to retain his belt.

The Groudle Glen Railway is a narrow gauge railway north of Douglas in the Isle of Man which is owned and operated by a small group of enthusiastic volunteers and operates on summer Sundays ; May to September and Wednesday evenings in July and August along with a number of annual special events.

On 12 May 1945 at Tarakan Island, off North Borneo, Corporal Mackey led his men along a very narrow spur trail where it was almost impossible to move to a flank.

However, on May 3, 1881, less than three months later, the company was leased for ninety-nine years to the narrow gauge Cincinnati Northern Railway, which built the line as a spur from a point at its own line, called Avondale Junction, to the zoo.

* May – American Locomotive Company completes the last steam locomotives built for the narrow gauge White Pass and Yukon Route.

The tram line in Miskolc was the fourth one built in Hungary – after the tram lines in Budapest ( 1887 ), Pozsony ( today in Slovakia ; 1895 ) and Szombathely ( May 1897 ; demolished since then ) –, the third one in present-day Hungary and the second normal gauge tram line ( the ones in Pozsony and Szombathely were narrow gauge ).

This was upheld in an 1892 referendum, but a second referendum in 1897 overturned the law by a narrow margin, and the first Sunday streetcars ran on May 16 of that year.