On February 22nd in US History
Part I
Part I
On February 16th in 1777 - Archibald Bulloch died under mysterious circumstances. Bulloch was Georgia's first Provisional Governor. Just hours before his death Georgia's Council of Safety granted him the powers of a dictator in expectation of a British invasion. The cause of his death remains unknown but there had been rumors that he had been poisoned.
On February 16th in 1819 - Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
On February 16th in 1825 - Russia and Britain established the Alaska/Canada boundary.
On February 16th in 1855 - The U.S. Congress voted to appropriate $200,000 for continuance of the work on the Washington Monument. The next morning the resolution was tabled and it would be 21 years before the Congress would vote on funds again. Work was continued by the Know-Nothing Party in charge of the project.
On February 16th in 1859 - U.S. President Buchanan approved the Act of February 22, 1859, which incorporated the Washington National Monument Society "for the purpose of completing the erection now in progress of a great National Monument to the memory of Washington at the seat of the Federal Government."
On February 16th in 1861 - U.S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln left Harrisburg and covertly traveled to Washington. Allen Pinkerton had uncovered a plot to assassinate Lincoln when he passed through Baltimore. Lincoln arrived unceremoniously in Washington the next morning.
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