Historical Events in 1861
53 curated events dated to this year, and 181 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1861
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Battle of Fort Sumter
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James Clerk Maxwell Publishes Equations on Electromagnetism
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Louis Pasteur Confirms Germ Theory
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Publication of 'Barbara Frietchie' Era Civil War
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American Civil War Begins
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Appointment as Poet Laureate of the Confederacy
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Death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Death of Second Wife Fanny Appleton Longfellow
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Founding of Morris & Co.
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Germ Theory of Disease Advances
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Invention of the Gatling Gun (1861)
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Publication of 'The Child's Book of Praise'
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The Great Civil War Comet
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Civil War Poetry
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First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)
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First Major Publication: 'The Ballad of the Twa Sisters'
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First Transcontinental Telegraph Line Completed in the USA
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Harriet Jacobs Publishes 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'
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Involvement in the Civil War
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Marriage to Casta Esteban
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Military Service in the Civil War
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Publication of 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'
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Publication of 'The Luggie and Other Poems'
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Sojourner Truth's Involvement in the Civil War
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The Agonizing Desert Survival of the Burke and Wills Expedition
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The Discovery of the 'Archaeopteryx' Fossil
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Unification of Italy (Risorgimento Completes)
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Birth of William Morris's Daughter, Jenny
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Civil War Service
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Death of Arthur Hugh Clough
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Death of David Gray
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Employment at the British Museum
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Indian Police Act of 1861 Enacted
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Last Poems Written
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Mass-produced canned foods supplied to Union armies during the American Civil War
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Participation in Spiritualist Conventions
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Publication of 'The Hymn of the Sea'
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Publication of 'The New York Independent'
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The Great Earthquake of Mendoza
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The Publication of Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management
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The Trent Affair
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Appointment as Deacon in the Church of England
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Birth of Nephew Edward Dickinson (Ned)
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British Acquisition of Lagos
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Cotton Famine in Lancashire
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Education at Eton College
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Enlarged Edition of 'A Book of Nonsense' Published
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First Job in Flagstone Quarry
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First Public Daily Weather Forecast (UK)
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Poem 'The May-Wine' Published in Springfield Daily Republican
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Publication of 'The Chemical History of a Candle' by Michael Faraday
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Recognition by the Melbourne Literary Society
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Fish Rain in Singapore
Poets alive in 1861
181 poets
Poets in 1861
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