1861

     

Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesay (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Trivia about 1861

  • Of the 15 expulsions of senators in the Senate's 215-year history, 11 took place in this year
  • The first major clash of the Civil War, the Battle of Bull Run took place in July of this year
  • Czar Alexander II freed the serfs in this year, the same year the U.S. Civil War began
  • Alabama first became a state in 1819 & then left the Union in this year
  • Jefferson Davis was elected to a 6-year term as President of the CSA early in this year
  • Czar Alexander II freed Russia's peasants from their "serfitude" in this year the U.S. Civil War began
  • On January 19th of this year, Georgia became the fifth Southern state to secede from the Union
  • Most of the South secedes from the Union & the Civil War begins

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