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1861 President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C. after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.

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1862: Otto von Bismarck becomes prime minister of Prussia.

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1863 Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the confederate states an official war goal. It proclaims the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's four million slaves, and immediately frees 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced.

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U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George B. McClellan.

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1865 U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth. Doctors attend to the President in the theater then move him to a house across the street. He goes into a coma upon being laid diagonally on a bed. U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.

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1866; Student Ferdinand Cohen-Blind fails to assassinate Otto von Bismarck in Unter den Linden in Berlin.

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1867 In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

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1868: U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War rebels.

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1869 Ulysses S. Grant succeeds Andrew Johnson as the 18th President of the United States of America.

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1870: France declares war on Prussia.

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1871 U.S President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Civil Rights Act.

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U.S. presidential election, 1872: Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horace Greeley.

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1873 The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.

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1874:  Democrats gain control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since 1860.

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1875 Bizet's Carmen is first performed at the Opéra Comique, Paris.