1861

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1861.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• Event: Allan Pinkerton is head of the Union Intelligence Service.
• Event: Halbert E. Paine enters the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment as a colonel.

January

February

• February 23
  • Event: Detective Allan Pinkerton averts an assassination plot against President-Elect Abraham Lincoln, smuggling him in disguise into Baltimore

March

• March 24
  • Event: Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln

April

• April 12
  • Event: American Civil War begins with the Battle of Fort Sumter

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

• December 14:
  • Event: Albert, Prince Consort dies of typhoid. Queen Victoria Of The United Kingdom goes into mourning.