The Gettysburg Address was a short speech given by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania, a few months after the Union victory in the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War. Lincoln spoke for only a couple of minutes, after the main orator, Edward Everett, who had talked for about two hours. In about two hundred and seventy words, he recast the war as a struggle to preserve a nation founded on the proposition that all men are created equal, and called on the living to complete the work for which the dead had fallen. The address is regarded as one of the most important speeches in American history.
Before and after
- from 20 July 1863 to 6 September 1864Shimonoseki Campaign
- 30 July 1863Birth of Henry Ford
- from 15 August 1863 to 17 August 1863Bombardment of Kagoshima
- 26 October 1863The Football Association is founded in London
- 19 November 1863Gettysburg Address
- from 8 December 1863 to 31 March 1877Reconstruction Era
- 12 December 1863Birth of Edvard Munch
- 18 December 1863Birth of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- 13 January 1864Birth of Wilhelm Wien
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