The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, declaring that all enslaved people in the Confederate states in rebellion were free. It did not apply to the border slave states loyal to the Union, nor to areas already under Union control, and its legal effect depended on Union military victory. Nevertheless, it changed the character of the war, making the end of slavery a goal of the Union, and it allowed Black men to enlist in the Union army and navy, which many did. It followed a preliminary version issued after the battle of Antietam. Slavery was abolished throughout the country by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
Before and after
- from 31 December 1862 to 2 January 1863Battle of Stones River
- 1863Discovery of indium
- 1863Origins of Baháʼí Faith
- from 1863 to 1865Colorado War
- 1 January 1863Emancipation Proclamation
- 1 January 1863Birth of Pierre de Coubertin
- 12 January 1863Birth of Swami Vivekananda
- 17 January 1863Birth of David Lloyd George
- from 22 January 1863 to 1 January 1864January Uprising
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- from 1 August 1894 to 17 April 1895First Sino-Japanese War
- 27 August 1896Anglo-Zanzibar War
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