Timeline: Rosanna William Wheelock: Our Family History

1862 - 1869 (6 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1861	4 Mar 1861—15 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln U.S. Presidency 12 Apr 1861—9 May 1865: American Civil War
2	1862	1862—1862: Lincoln issues first legal US paper money (Greenbacks) 20 Apr 1862—20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
3	1863	1863—1863: Football Association founded (UK) 1863—1863: Opening of state institution for criminally insane at Broadmoor, England 10 Jan 1863—10 Jan 1863: First section of the London Underground Railway opens
4	1864	1864—1864: A man-powered submarine, 'Hunley' sank a Federal steam ship USS Housatonic at the entrance to Charleston harbour in 1864 - the first recorded successful attack by a submarine on a surface ship 11 Mar 1864—11 Mar 1864: The Great Sheffield Flood - over 250 died when a new dam broke while it was being filled for the first time 20 Aug 1864—20 Aug 1864: Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention 8 Dec 1864—8 Dec 1864: Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon officially opened
5	1865	1865—1865: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) becomes first woman doctor in England [she later became the first woman mayor in England, in Aldeburgh 1908] 1865—1865: First concrete roads built in Britain 14 Apr 1865—14 Apr 1865: End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA 14 Apr 1865—14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth 15 Apr 1865—4 Mar 1869: Andrew Johnson U.S. Presidency 5 Jul 1865—5 Jul 1865: William Booth (1829-1912) founds Salvation Army, in London
6	1867	1 Jul 1867—1 Jul 1867: The British North America Act takes effect, creating the Canadian Confederation
7	1868	1868—1868: Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)
8	1869	1869—1869: Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented 4 Mar 1869—4 Mar 1877: Ulysses S. Grant U.S. Presidency 23 Nov 1869—23 Nov 1869: Cutty Sark launched in Dumbarton