1854 - Lincoln University
Lincoln University, one of the first Black colleges, chartered as Ashmun Institute in Oxford, Pennsylvania.
1863 - President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in rebel states with exception of thirteen parishes (including New Orleans) in Louisiana, forty-eight countries in West Virginia, seven countries (including Norfolk) in Eastern Virginia. Proclamation did not apply to slaves in Border States.
1997 -
The former prison for Nelson Mandela and many other South Africans is turned in to a museum at Robben Island.
