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1860--John Ruskin's Modern Painters vol V published.6-55
June William Morris moved into Red House designed by Philip Webb.1-157 The house was Philip Webb's first job as an independent architect.1-155
May 23Dante Gabriel Rossetti married Lizzie Siddal at St. Clement's Church, Hastings.2
Jun 09Edward Burne-Jones married Georgiana Macdonald.
1861Jan 17William Morris' first child, Jane (Janey) Alice Morris born.1-186
Mar 04Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President of the United States.
Apr 11William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Philip Webb, Ford Madox Borwn, Charles Faulkner, and Peter Paul Marshall formed Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.1-166
Apr 12American Civil War began.3
May 02Dante Gabriel Rossetti's baby stillborn.2
Dec 14Prince Albert, husband of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in London.4
1862Feb 07Bernard Maybeck born in New York, New York.
Feb 10Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal-Rossetti, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti died from a self-administered overdose of morphia.2
Mar 25William Morris' second child, Mary (May) Morris, is born.1-187
Jul 27Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones met James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 5
SummerJohn Ruskin and Edward Burne-Jones toured Italy.6-172
1863--Ernest Albert Coxhead born in Eastbourne, England.
--Ralph Adams Cram born in Hampton falls, New Hampshire.
--William Morris met William De Morgan.
Jan 01President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states were free.4
Jan 10London's Metropolitan, the world's first underground passenger railway, opened to the public.4
May 17Charles Robert Ashbee born in Isleworth, Middlesex, England.
Nov 19Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.3
1864--Jeffrey & Co. in Islington began printing William Morris wallpaper.1-183
--Albert Cicero Schweinfurth born in Auburn, New York.
Apr 09Archibald Knox born at Cronkbourne (Isle of Man).
May 08John Galen Howard born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Dec 25George Washington Maher born in Mill Creek, West Virginia.
1865Apr 14Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Apr 15Andrew Johnson inaugurated President of the United States.4
May 26American Civil War ended.3
Jul John Ruskin, frustrated by his inability to control Dante Gabriel Rossetti severs their relationship.6-192
AutumnWilliam Morris moved from Red House to No. 26 Queen Square.1-197
Oct 23Mackay Hugh Ballie Scott born in Ramsgate, Kent, England.
1866--Louis Christian Mulgardt born in Washington, Missouri.
Aug 01Claude Fayette Bragdon born in Oberlin, Ohio.
Nov Charles Fairfax Murray became Edward Burne-Jones' first studio assistant.7
1867Jun 08Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
Oct 17Willis Jefferson Polk born in Jacksonville, Illinois.
1868--Charles Locke Eastlake published Hints on Household Taste in England.
Jun 07Charles Rennie Mackintosh born at 70 Parson Street,Glasgow, Scotland.8
Oct 12Charles Sumner Greene born in Cincinnati, Ohio.9
1869Mar 04Ulysses Simpson Grant inaugurated President of the United States.
May 10A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.4
Jul 07Grosvenor Atterbury born in Detroit, Michigan.
1 William Morris: A Life for Our Time, Fiona MacCarthy, 1994
2 Rossetti Archive
3 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001
4 NY Times on the Web
5 James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth, Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval, 1994
6 John Ruskin : A Life, John Batchelor, 2000
7 Charles Fairfax Murray: The unknown Pre-Raphaelite, David Elliott, 2000
8 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edited by Wendy Kaplan, 1996
9 Greene & Greene: The Passion and the Legacy, Randall L. Makinson, 1998