burning trees collasping on union soidlers (Comment) If that did happen, I don't see how it would mar any Confederate victory. Surely the tragic outcome for the South was the mortal wounding of Stonewall Jackson - by whom, and whether accidental, is still debated.
Start of the war, victory in Europe and victory over Japan.
collapse of the Soviet Union
The Nazi defeat at Kursk was the most important event in 1943.
Lincoln's Presidency
They all got drunk and danced about like panzies.
President Lincoln waited for this victory to release the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in the Southern states (but not the Northern states).
Michigan entered the Union as the twenty-sixth state.
The long term causes of this battle were what happened before the event
The Union Army's victory at the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) gave Lincoln the confidence.
The most significant event was the Union victory at Antietam. That gave Lincoln the excuse he had been waiting for to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
At Ft. Sumter, Confederates surrounded Union ships. Union was low on supplies, so Lincoln sent a supply ship. Confederates opened fire. 33 hours later, Union armies surrendered. Confederate's victory, and the Civil War began.
Grant victory at Vicksburg made the Mississippi a Union possession, cutting the Confederacy in two, completing phase two of the Anaconda Plan, choking the armies off from reinforcement and supplies, and, ultimately, setting the stage for Sherman's March to the Sea: the event that really forced the end of the war.
On December 14, 1819, the state of Alabama was admitted to the Union. It was the 22nd state.
On May 10 , 1869 the track of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met a Promontory Point , Utah Territory.
You use the word prior when speaking to an event, like; prior to an event, it means this happened before a certain event, or before something happened. Say there was a crime, and people were talking about how this happened, and what happened prior to this event.
what astronomical event happened in august 1999