Timeline: 1860-1869

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Songs

	Douglas Schottisch by Charles Grobe (1860)
	Maryland My Maryland by James R. Randall (1862)
	Grafted Into the Army by Henry Clay Work (1862)
	When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Louis Lambert (1863)
	Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Foster (1865)
	Marching Through Georgia by Henry Clay Work (1865)
	Song of All Songs by Stephen Foster (1866)
	The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss (1867)
	Little Brown Jug by R.E. Eastburn (1869)

1861-1865 American Civil War

Abraham Lincoln elected President of the United States (Nov 6, 1860)

Lincoln assassinated (Apr 14, 1865); succeeded by Andrew Johnson

Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolishes slavery (Dec 18, 1865)

Ulysses S. Grant elected President of the US (1868)

Homestead Act (1862)

1868 Revolution in Spain - Queen Isabella II is deposed

Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister of Britian; later resigns (1868)

Suez Canal completed (1869)

J. Walter Thompson Advertising Company created from Carlton and Smith in 1878

Rand McNally & Company founded (1868)

Campbell Soup Company

H.J. Heinz Company

Alfred Nobel invents dynamite (1866)

Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization (1864)

Gatling gun invented by Richard Jordan Gatling (1861)

Transcontinental telegraph line completed by Western Union (1861)

"QWERTY" keyboard typewriter patented (1868)

Barbed Wire patented (1867)

Songwriter Stephen Foster Dies (1864)

Salvation Army founded by William Booth (1865)

Yale University awards first American Ph.D. (1861)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll published in 1865

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott published in 1868

Dickens' Great Expectations published in 1861

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo published in 1862

First recorded baseball game held in San Francisco (1860)

First professional Baseball Club founded: The Cincinnati Red Stockings (1868)

First intercollegiate football game between Rutgers and Princeton (1869)