WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1861
Find out what all happened February to December 1861

American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America. (8. May 1861)

American Civil War: Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government. (20. November 1861)

American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state. (11. February 1861)

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

President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War (15. April 1861)

Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War. (17. June 1861)

American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance. (3. September 1861)

American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war. (21. November 1861)

American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia. (24. May 1861)

American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States. (1. February 1861)

Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech (21. March 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)

In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America. (18. February 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)

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

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases. (23. October 1861)

The United States Army abolishes flogging. (5. August 1861)

The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express. (24. October 1861)

American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff – Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting. (21. October 1861)

Forces led by Nguyen Trung Truc, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance. (10. December 1861)