WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1861
Find out what all happened January to July 1861

American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel - Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia. (10. June 1861)

Pakistan’s (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri. (13. May 1861)

Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. (10. February 1861)

American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union. (8. June 1861)

American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama. (9. February 1861)

First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas. (6. April 1861)

American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union. (20. May 1861)

President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland. (23. February 1861)

American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. (26. July 1861)

American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city. (19. April 1861)

American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union. (29. April 1861)

In Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is signed. (13. February 1861)

American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate. (21. January 1861)

American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union. (6. May 1861)

American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army. (21. July 1861)

American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States. (19. January 1861)

American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. (27. April 1861)

Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state. (29. January 1861)

The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand. (19. March 1861)

American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces. (13. April 1861)