The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
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John Bellingham was sentenced to death for assassinating Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Tennessee Valley Act to build dams.
The Worms massacre began.
Napoleon Bonaparte was declared the Emperor of France by the French Senate.
Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of treason led to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe, who was his roommate.
