SET THE WAYBACK MACHINE TO:
1600's 1700's 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1807 1808 1809 1810 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1827 1828 1829 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851	1852 1854 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899

Philadelphia Timeline, 1861

January 3. Meeting of citizens at Board of Trade rooms, to take action concerning the peril of the Union.
January 7. Destructive fire, Maule & Bros., lumber-yard, Twenty-third and South Streets.
February 10. Ship John Trucks cut through by ice and sunk at Arch Street Wharf, Delaware River.
April. War excitement.
April 23. Whale caught in the Delaware opposite the city.
May 8. First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers march South.
July 4. Grand parade of Gray Reserves and Home Guards.
September 4. Seizure of property belonging to rebels.
September 10. Ferry boat Curlew with 142 head of cattle aboard, sunk in the Delaware. Most of the cattle escaped.
September 14. Fire in Continental Theatre, Walnut Street above Eighth. Fourteen ballet girls burned, nine whom died.
October 19. Boiler explosion at I. P. Morris' machine works, Richmond. Two men killed.
October 30. Fire. Cotton and woolen mills, Twelfth Street and Washington Avenue. Loss $100,000.
November 5. Explosion at Bridesburg Arsenal. Two men killed.

Excerpted from "Happenings in ye Olde Philadelphia 1680-1900" by Rudolph J. Walther, 1925, Walther Printing House, Philadelphia, PA