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| 1860 |
| | | South Carolina becomes the first southern state to secede from the Union in response to Lincoln's election | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Charles Dickens begins serial publication of his novel "Great Expectations" (in book form 1861) | |
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| 1860 |
| | | George Eliot publishes The Mill on the Floss, her novel about the childhood of Maggie and Tom Tulliver | |
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| 1861 |
| | | The Liberals recover Mexico City and elect Benito Juarez as president | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Seven southern states, meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, agree to form the Confederate States of America | |
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| 1861 |
| | | The seven members of the newly formed Condederacy elect Jefferson Davis as their provisional president | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Lagos, on the coast of Nigeria, is annexed as a British colony when the royal family prove unable or unwilling to end the slave trade | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Victor Emmanuel II is proclaimed king of a united Italy, with only Rome and Venetia remaining outside his realm | |
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| 1861 |
| | | After four years of consultation, Alexander II issues a decree freeing Russia's millions of serfs | |
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| 1861 |
| | | English chemist and physicist William Crookes isolates a new element, thallium | |
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