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1863 Events January–March * January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states an official war goal. It proclaims t ...
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Explorations

* Édouard Lartet and Henry Christy begin joint exploration of caves in the valley of the
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Excavations

* Excavations at
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by John Turtle Wood begin. * William Copeland Borlase supervises excavations of the re-discovered
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settlement and fogou at Carn Euny in Cornwall.


Publications

* Samuel Ferguson's '' Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland'' is published posthumously. * The text of the Iguvine Tablets (3rd–1st centuries BC) is first published, by
Francis William Newman Francis William Newman (27 June 1805 – 4 October 1897) was an English classical scholar and moral philosopher, prolific miscellaneous writer and activist for vegetarianism and other causes. He was the younger brother of John Henry Newman. ...
in London. * ''Zeitschrift für ägyptisches Sprache und Altertumskunde'' begins publication.


Finds

* April 15 – Winged Victory of Samothrace found at Samothrace by
Charles Champoiseau The ''Winged Victory of Samothrace'', or the ''Nike of Samothrace'', is a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beg ...
. Made c.190 BC, it is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. * April 20 – Augustus of Prima Porta in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome. * Nydam Boats found in Denmark by Conrad Engelhardt. * Early human jawbone found in proximity to flint tools at Moulin Quignon in France by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, subsequently considered a hoax perpetrated by one of his diggers.


Awards


Miscellaneous

* Anthropological Society of London formed


Births

* July 4 – Hugo Winckler, German Assyriologist (died
1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
) * July 13 – Margaret Murray, Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (died
1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
) * Francis Joseph Bigger, Irish antiquarian (died
1926 Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...
)


Deaths

* July 3 –
Alexander Henry Rhind Alexander Henry Rhind (; 26 July 1833 – 3 July 1863) was a Scottish antiquarian and archaeologist. Biography Born in Wick on 26 July 1833 in the Scottish Highlands, Rhind studied at the University of Edinburgh. He has often been erroneously ...
, Scottish Egyptologist (born
1833 Events January–March * January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833), Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. * February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto ...
) * –
Kyriakos Pittakis Kyriakos S. Pittakis or Pittakys ( el, Κυριακός Πιττάκης) (1798–1863) was a Greek archaeologist of the 19th century. He is most notable as the first Greek Ephor-General of Antiquities of Greece, the head of the Greek Archaeo ...
, Greek archaeologist (born c.
1798 Events January–June * January – Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S. federal government for 10,000 muskets, which he produces with interchangeable parts. * January 4 – Constantine Hangerli enters Bucharest, as Prince of Wa ...
)


See also

* List of years in archaeology *
1862 in archaeology Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1862. Excavations * Re-excavation of Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery in eastern England under direction of landowner Septimus Davidson; a ship burial is uncovered. Finds * The Painted Cave ...
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1864 in archaeology Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1864. Excavations *March - Danes Graves, Arras culture barrows in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, by Canon William Greenwell. Finds * A carving on mammoth ivory of a woolly m ...


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