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Serfdom is officially ended in Russia.
Abdulmejid dies and is replaced as Ottoman sultan by his brother Abdulaziz.
Tunisia promulgates the first constitution in an Islamic nation, establishing a limited monarchy, although it is abrogated in 1864.
Lagos (Nigeria) is made a British Crown colony.
4 March Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the sixteenth president of the United States. In response to his election ten Southern states secede from the Union, form the Confederate States of America, and elect Jefferson Davis as president.
12 April Confederate forces open fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston (S.C.) harbor, initiating the Civil War.
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