The Phoenicians used sand to make glass
Both the processes of creating a timeline and thinking chronologically are similar in that both require thinking about time as a series of events that take place one after the other--as opposed to focussing on similarities and connections between events that may be "out of order" on a given timeline.
The Republican Party first came to power in Abraham´s Lincoln election in 1860 ( 2nd option is correct ). Founded in 1854, the Republican Party soon transformed itself in the main opposition to the then dominating Democratic Party. In the election of 1860 the Republicans won control of both houses of the Congress.