1861 Calendar
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1861 Historical Event(s)
January 9, 1861
– American Civil War: The “Star of the West” incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the “First Shots of the American Civil War”.
January 21, 1861
– American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
February 4, 1861
– American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
February 19, 1861
– Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
March 3, 1861
– Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
April 20, 1861
– American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
May 13, 1861
– Pakistan’s (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
June 10, 1861
– American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel. Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
August 6, 1861
– The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
August 27, 1861
– Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Who Were Born On 1861?
February 15, 1861
– Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1938)
February 26, 1861
– King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
April 2, 1861
– Iván Persa, Hungarian Slovene writer and catholic priest (d. 1935)
May 16, 1861
– H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (d. 1896)
June 22, 1861
– Maximilian von Spee, Denmark-born German admiral (d. 1914)
September 27, 1861
– Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1933)
October 29, 1861
– Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
November 22, 1861
– Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (d. 1917)
December 16, 1861
– Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917)