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1861
Summary
Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry.
January 1
Benito Juárez captures Mexico City.
The first steam-powered carousel is recorded, in Bolton, England.
January 2 – Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies, and is succeeded by Wilhelm I.
January 3 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the Union.
January 9 – American Civil War: Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union.
January 10 – American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
January 11 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the Union.
January 12 – American Civil War: Major Robert Anderson sends dispatches to Washington.
January 19 – American Civil War: Georgia secedes from the Union.
January 21 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
January 26 – American Civil War: Louisiana secedes from the Union.
January 29 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state, being admitted as a free state.
February 1 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the Union.
February 4 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, the Provisional Confederate States Congress is formed by representatives from the first seven break-away states.
February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first seven break-away States.
February 9 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected Provisional President of the Confederate States of America, by the Weed Convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
February 11
American Civil War: The U.S. House unanimously passes a resolution, guaranteeing non-interference with slavery in any state.
About 850 convicts at Chatham Dockyard in England take over their prison in a riot.
February 13 – Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta, stronghold of the Neapolitan King Francis II, is ended by Piedmontese forces. Francis goes into exile.
February 18 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional president of the Confederate States of America.
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