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.
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