<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwrg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" id="mwrw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> signs an act that admits <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia" id="mwsA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" id="mwsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a>, thus dividing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" id="mwsg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> in two.<sup about="#mwt70" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_31#cite_note-11" id="mwsw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwtA">[11]</span></a></sup>
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