Chronological Table
Life of Lincoln. Contemporary Contemporary Biography. American History
1809. Lincoln born, 1809. Gladstone, 1809. Madison President.
Feb. 12. Darwin, Tennyson,
Poe, Holmes born.
1813. Douglas born.
1816. Family moved 1816. Indiana admitted to Indiana. as a state.
1818. Mother died. 1818. Illinois admitted
as a state.
1819. Father married
Sarah Johnston.
1820. Missouri Compromise.
1821. Missouri admitted as a state.
1822. Grant born.
1829. Jackson President.
1830. Family moved 1830. Douglas moved 1830. Speeches of Hayne
to Illinois. to New York. and Webster.
1831. Settled in 1831. Publication of
New Salem. The Liberatur.
1832. Enlisted in the 1832. Founding of the
Black Hawk War: New England Anti-Slavery
unsuccessful Society.
candidate for the
legislature
1833. Postmaster of 1833. Douglas moved 1833. Founding of the New Salem; deputy to Illinois. American Anti-Slavery surveyor’s clerk. Society.
1834. Elected to the 1834. Douglas admitted legislature. to the bar.
1835. Douglas elected
State’s Attorney.
1836. Reelected to 1836. Douglas elected
the legislature. to the legislature.
Presidential Elector.
| 1837. Admitted to | 1837. Douglas | 1837. Van Buren |
| the bar. Moved | appointed Registrar | President. Murder |
| to Springfield. | of the Land Office; | of Owen Lovejoy. |
| nominated for | ||
| Congress. |
1838. Reelected to
the legislature.
1840. Presidential 1840. Douglas
Elector. appointed Judge
of the Illinois
Supreme Court.
1841. Harrison
President. Tyler
President.
1843. Married to
Mary Todd.
1844. Presidential 1844. Douglas elected
Elector. to Congress.
1845. Polk President. Texas admitted as a state.
1846. Elected to 1846-48. War with Mexico. Congress.
1847. Douglas elected U.S. Senator; moved to Chicago.
1848. Presidential Elector.
1849. Taylor President.
1850. Death of Calhoun.
1850. Fillmore President. Clay’s Compromise Measure.
1852. Death of Clay
and of Webster.
1853. Douglas 1853. Pierce President.
reelected Senator.
1854. Reelected to the 1854. Kansas-Nebraska
legislature. Bill.
1855. Resigned from the
legislature. Candidate
for the U. S. Senate.
1856. Candidate for 1856. Fremont first
nomination for Republican candidate for
Vice-President. the presidency. Civil
war in Kansas.
1857. Buchanan President.
The Dred Scott Decision.
1858. Candidate for 1858. Lincoln-Douglas
the U. S. Senate. Debates.
1859. Douglas 1859. Death of John
reelected Brown.
to the Senate.
1860. Cooper Institute 1860. Douglas 1860. South Carolina
Address. Elected Democratic Ordinance of Secession.
President. candidate
for the Presidency.
| 1861. Left | Springfield, | 1861. Douglas died, | 1861. Fall of Fort Sumter, |
| Feb. 11; | inaugurated | June 3. | April 12. Battle |
| March 4. | McClellan | of Bull Run, July 21. | |
| Commander-in-Chief. | Kansas admitted as a | ||
| state. |
1862. The Preliminary 1862. Slavery abolished
Emancipation in the District of
Proclamation, Sept. 22. Columbia, April 16.
1863. The Final 1863. Battle of
Emancipation Gettysburg, July 1-5.
Proclamation,
Jan. 1. The
Gettysburg Address,
Nov. 19.
1864. Reelected to 1864. Grant 1864. Battles of the
the Presidency. appointed Wilderness, May 6-7.
Lieutenant-General.
1865. Inaugurated, 1865. Fall of Richmond, Mar. 4. Assassinated, April 3. Surrender of April 14; died April Lee, April 9. Johnson 15; buried at sworn in as President, Springfield, May 4. April 15.