December 26 - Major Robert Anderson evacuates Fort Moultrie for Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
December 20 - South Carolina adopts an Ordinance of Secession.
November 18 - Georgia legislature appropriates $1,000,000 to arm the state.
November 11 - South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond resigns his seat in the U.S.
November 10 - South Carolina Senator James Chestnut Jr.
November 6 - Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States.
Marines storm engine house at Harpers Ferry and capture John Brown
October 16 - John Brown raids Harpers Ferry, Virginia (Now West Virginia).
May 30 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act is signed into law.
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