| 1860. |
Abraham Lincoln elected President. |
| 1861. |
Southern Confederacy formed at Montgomery, February 8. |
| 1861. |
Jefferson Davis inaugurated President of the Confederacy,
February 18. |
| 1861. |
Lincoln inaugurated President of the United States, March 4. |
| 1861. |
Fort Sumter captured by the Confederates, April 14. |
| 1861. |
Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers, April 15. |
| 1861. |
Secession of Virginia, April 17. |
| 1861. |
Confederate capital changed from Montgomery to Richmond. |
| 1861. |
Battle of Big Bethel, June 10. |
| 1861. |
West Virginia organized a separate government, June 11. |
| 1861. |
Confederate Congress assembled at Richmond, July 20. |
| 1861. |
First battle of Manassas, July 21. |
| 1862. |
Battle between the Virginia and the Monitor, March 9. |
| 1862. |
Jackson's Valley Campaign, March-June. |
| 1862. |
Battle of Seven Pines, May 31-June 1. |
| 1862. |
General Lee made commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
in June. |
| 1862. |
The Seven Days' battle around Richmond, June 25-July 1. |
| 1862. |
Second battle of Manassas, August 29-30. |
| 1862. |
Harper's Ferry captured by Jackson, September 15. |
| 1862. |
General Lee invaded Maryland in September. |
| 1862. |
Battle of Sharpsburg, or Antietam, September 17. |
| 1862. |
Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13. |
| 1863. |
Emancipation Proclamation, January 1. |
| 1863. |
Battle of Chancellorsville, May 2-3. |
| 1863. |
Death of Stonewall Jackson, May 10. |
| 1863. |
West Virginia admitted into the Union, June 20. |
| 1863. |
Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3. |
| 1864. |
Battles of the Wilderness, May 5-6. |
| 1864. |
Battle of Spottsylvania Courthouse, May 8-12. |
| 1864. |
Battle of New Market, May 15. |
| 1864. |
Battle of Cold Harbor, June 3. |
| 1864. |
Siege of Petersburg begun, June 15. |
| 1864. |
Invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Early in July. |
| 1864. |
Mine explosion at Petersburg and battle of the Crater, July 30. |
| 1865. |
Richmond evacuated, April 2. |
| 1865. |
General Lee surrendered, April 9. |
| 1865. |
Provisional government established in Virginia, May 9. |
| 1865. |
Assassination of President Lincoln, April 14. |
| 1865. |
President Davis taken prisoner, May 10. |
| 1865. |
Slavery abolished in the United States. |
| 1866. |
Memorial Day instituted. |
| 1867. |
Reconstruction Acts passed by Congress. |
| 1870. |
Virginia readmitted into the Union. |
| 1870. |
The Capitol disaster. |
| 1870. |
Public school system established. |
| 1870. |
Death of General Robert E. Lee. |
| 1881. |
Yorktown Centennial. |
| 1892. |
State debt adjusted. |
| 1893. |
World's Columbian Exposition, May-October. |
| 1898. |
Kearsarge and Kentucky launched at Newport News, March 25. |
| 1902. |
New Constitution adopted. |
