Wheat cents were struck from 1909 to 1958, but the denomination itself has been made since 1793 so there are far too many years to try to write out in detail. If you're referring to a modern Lincoln...
It's still a Lincoln cent, not a Union penny. After the 2009 Bicentennial, the reverse was changed to the Union Shield as a symbolic image of Lincoln's preservation of the USA as a United, Single...
It is derived from 'pence' which is the one cent piece in the United Kingdom.
First, England doesn't have one-cent pieces, and second, "pence" is simply the plural of "penny" when applied to a...