1862
Lincoln's presidency era
A year in the 19th century, during the American Civil War.
When someone references 1862, they typically mean events from that period: The battle took place in 1862.
Years function as nouns marking time or as modifiers: an 1862 photograph, the 1862 Homestead Act.
Executive order freeing Confederate slaves
- Antietam1862 Maryland engagement
- ShilohTennessee battlefield, 1862
- UnionNamed political entity
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
Abraham Lincoln · Robert E. Lee · Ulysses S. Grant · Jefferson Davis · secession · slavery · abolitionists · Stonewall Jackson
Prussia's unifying statesman
- PrussiaFormer German kingdom
- French IndochinaSoutheast Asian colonial territory
- SaigonFormer Vietnamese capital
- Russian EmpireRomanov-ruled Eurasian state
serfdom · Garibaldi · Napoleon III · Otto von Bismarck · Les Misérables · Victor Hugo · world trade · steamships
Long-reigning British empress
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- Great Exhibition1851 London industrial showcase
- LancashireNorthwestern English county
- mill workersEmployees at processing plants
Charles Dickens · Prince Albert · crinoline · mourning dress · workhouses · industrial cities · music halls · missionaries
Emancipation Proclamation
Executive order freeing Confederate slaves
Confederacy · Abraham Lincoln · Robert E. Lee · Ulysses S. Grant · Jefferson Davis · secession · slavery · abolitionists · Stonewall Jackson · blockade
Bismarck
Prussia's unifying statesman
- PrussiaFormer German kingdom
- French IndochinaSoutheast Asian colonial territory
- SaigonFormer Vietnamese capital
Russian Empire · serfdom · Garibaldi · Napoleon III · Otto von Bismarck · Les Misérables · Victor Hugo · world trade · steamships · colonialism
Queen Victoria
Long-reigning British empress
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- Great Exhibition1851 London industrial showcase
- LancashireNorthwestern English county
Charles Dickens · mill workers · Prince Albert · crinoline · mourning dress · workhouses · industrial cities · music halls · missionaries · colonial expansion
18621776
American founding year
1959 · 1989 · 2000 · postbellum · Reconstruction