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January–March

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January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
– American songwriter Stephen Foster (" Oh! Susanna", " Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song "
Beautiful Dreamer "Beautiful Dreamer" is a parlor song by American songwriter Stephen Foster. It was published posthumously in March 1864, by Wm. A. Pond & Co. of New York. The first edition states on its title page that it is "the last song ever written by Steph ...
" is published in March. *
January 16 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. * 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
Denmark rejects an Austrian-Prussian ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution, which says that Schleswig-Holstein is part of Denmark. * January 21New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga campaign begins. *
February February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The month has 28 days in common years or 29 in leap years, with the 29th day being called the ''leap day''. It is the first of five months not to have 31 days (th ...
John Wisden publishes '' The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864'' in England; it will go on to become the major annual
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
reference publication. *
February 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...
– Danish-Prussian War ( Second Schleswig War): 57,000 Austrian and Prussian troops cross the
Eider River The Eider (german: Die Eider; da, Ejderen; Latin: ''Egdor'' or ''Eidora'') is the longest river in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The river starts near Bordesholm and reaches the southwestern outskirts of Kiel on the shores of the Balt ...
into Denmark. *
February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
Heineken brewery founded in Netherlands. *
February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
American Civil War: The tiny Confederate hand-propelled
submarine A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely op ...
''
H. L. Hunley ''H. L. Hunley'', often referred to as ''Hunley'', '' CSS H. L. Hunley'', or as ''CSS Hunley'', was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War. ''Hunley'' demonstrated the advantages and th ...
'' sinks the , using a spar torpedo in Charleston Harbor, becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy ship, although the submarine and her crew of eight are also lost. *
February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
– American Civil War: The Union suffers one of its costliest defeats at the Battle of Olustee near
Lake City, Florida Lake City is a city in northern Florida. It is the county seat of Columbia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 12,329. It is the principal city of the Lake City Micropolitan Statistical Area, which ...
. *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...
– American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia (the 500 prisoners had left Richmond, Virginia, seven days before). * March 1
Alejandro Mon y Menéndez Alejandro Mon y Menéndez (26 February 1801 in Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, Spain – 1 November 1882) was a Spanish politician and jurist who was prime minister of Spain in 1864, during the reign of Queen Isabella II. Early life Mon w ...
takes office as Prime Minister of Spain. * March 9 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln appoints Ulysses S. Grant commander in chief of all Union armies. * March 10 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins, as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana. * March 11
Great Sheffield Flood The Great Sheffield Flood was a flood that devastated parts of Sheffield, England, on 11 March 1864, when the Dale Dyke Dam broke as its reservoir was being filled for the first time. At least 240 people died and more than 600 houses were ...
: A reservoir near Sheffield, England, bursts; 250 die.


April–June

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April 8 Events Pre-1600 * 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. * 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids. *1139 – Ro ...
Gallaudet University Gallaudet University ( ) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. It was founded in 1864 as a grammar school for both deaf and blind children. It was the first sc ...
is founded in Washington, D.C., as the first university for the deaf and hard of hearing. * April 12American Civil War: Battle of Fort Pillow – Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrender at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. * April 15Choe Je-u, founder of the Donghak Movement, is executed by beheading for sedition, at
Daegu Daegu (, , literally 'large hill', 대구광역시), formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; it is ...
, Korea. * April 18 – Danish-Prussian War ( Second Schleswig War) –
Battle of Dybbøl The Battle of Dybbøl ( da, Slaget ved Dybbøl; german: Erstürmung der Düppeler Schanzen) was the key battle of the Second Schleswig War, fought between Denmark and Prussia. The battle was fought on the morning of 18 April 1864, following ...
: The Prussian army, fielding 10,000 men, defeats the Danish defending army of 9,200 at Dybbøl Mill, after an artillery bombardment from April 718. * April 22 – The United States Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864, which mandates that the inscription ''In God We Trust'' be placed on all coins minted as United States currency. * May 2 – Under terms of the
Treaty of London The Treaty of London or London Convention or similar may refer to: *Treaty of London (1358), established a truce between England and France following the Battle of Poitiers *Treaty of London (1359), which ceded western France to England *Treaty of ...
, the United Kingdom voluntarily cedes control of the United States of the Ionian Islands to the Kingdom of Greece. * May 4Société Générale, a major financial group in France, is founded. * May 5 – American Civil War: The
Battle of the Wilderness The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Arm ...
begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. * May 7 ** American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the
Battle of the Wilderness The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Arm ...
and moves southwards. ** The
clipper A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. Clippers were generally narrow for their length, small by later 19th century standards, could carry limited bulk freight, and had a large total sail area. "C ...
ship '' City of Adelaide'' is launched in
Sunderland Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on t ...
, England. By the 21st century, she will be the world's oldest surviving clipper of only two ('' Cutty Sark'' being the other). *
May 8 Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
21 – American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (The ''Bloody Angle'') – Some 4,000 troops on both sides die in an inconclusive engagement. * May 9 ** Danish-Prussian War ( Second Schleswig War) – Battle of Heligoland: The Danish navy gains a tactical victory over those of Austria and Prussia, near the island of Heligoland. It is the last significant naval battle fought by squadrons of wooden ships, and also the last involving Denmark. ** American general John Sedgwick is shot dead during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, shortly after uttering the famous last words: ''"They couldn't hit an elephant from this distance!"'' *
May 11 Events 1601–1900 *1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons. *1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
– American Civil War: Battle of Yellow Tavern – Confederate General
J. E. B. Stuart James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833May 12, 1864) was a United States Army officer from Virginia who became a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb,” from the initials of ...
is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia. * May 13 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – The battle begins with Union General
Sherman Sherman most commonly refers to: *Sherman (name), a surname and given name (and list of persons with the name) ** William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891), American Civil War General *M4 Sherman, a tank Sherman may also refer to: Places United St ...
fighting toward Atlanta. * May 15 – American Civil War: Battle of New Market – Cadets from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army, forcing Union General Franz Sigel out of the
Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley () is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge- ...
. * May 18Civil War gold hoax: The ''New York World'' and the ''New York Journal of Commerce'' publish a fake proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln has issued a draft of 400,000 more soldiers. * May 20 ** American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory. ** Australian bushranger Ben Hall and his gang escape from a shootout with police, after attempting to rob the Bang Bang Hotel in
Koorawatha, New South Wales Koorawatha is a town in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia, on the Olympic Highway between Cowra and Young. It was once a large and thriving centre of activity but now has only a hotel and a cafe. The Koorawatha Hotel h ...
. * May 21 – The Russian Empire begins the Circassian genocide. More than 1.5 million Circassians are driven from their homeland to the Ottoman Empire, ending the Russo-Circassian War. * May 26Montana Territory is organized out of parts of Washington Territory and Dakota Territory. * June – The United States Sanitary Commission's
Sanitary Fair Sanitary fairs were fund-raising events held in various cities on behalf of the United States Sanitary Commission to raise funds and supplies for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Established in 1863, the last major event was held in 1 ...
in Philadelphia takes place. *
June 5 Events Pre-1600 *1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights. *1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...
– American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont – Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, West Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. * June 9 – American Civil War: Battle of Petersburg – Union forces under General Grant and troops led by Confederate General
Robert E. Lee Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, towards the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army. He led the Army of Nort ...
battle for the last time. * June 10 – American Civil War: ** Battle of Noonday Creek – Confederate troops defeat Union forces, near Kennesaw, Georgia. ** Battle of Brice's Crossroads – Confederate troops under
Nathan Bedford Forrest Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821October 29, 1877) was a prominent Confederate Army general during the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1867 to 1869. Before the war, Forrest amassed substantial wealt ...
defeat a much larger Union force, led by General
Samuel D. Sturgis Samuel Davis Sturgis (June 11, 1822 – September 28, 1889) was a senior Officer (armed forces), officer of the United States Army. A veteran of the Mexican–American War, Mexican War, American Civil War, Civil War, and American Indian Wars, I ...
, in Mississippi. * June 12 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia, and moves south. * June 15Arlington National Cemetery is established in the United States, when of the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home ( Arlington House) are officially set aside as a military cemetery, by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. * June 18 ** The Decree of Extended Freedom of Trade introduces complete freedom of trade in Sweden. ** The
January Uprising The January Uprising ( pl, powstanie styczniowe; lt, 1863 metų sukilimas; ua, Січневе повстання; russian: Польское восстание; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at ...
ends in the defeat of Polish forces. * June 19 – American Civil War:
Battle of Cherbourg The Battle of Cherbourg was part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II. It was fought immediately after the successful Allied landings on 6 June 1944. Allied troops, mainly American, isolated and captured the fortified port, which was ...
Confederate States Navy CSS ''Alabama'' is sunk in a
single-ship action A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; called so because there is a single ship on each side. The following is a list of notable single-ship actions. Single-shi ...
with USS ''Kearsarge'', in the English Channel off the coast of Cherbourg peninsula, France. *
June 21 Events Pre-1600 * 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date). * 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends. * June 27 – American Civil War: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain – Confederate troops defeat Union forces, near Kennesaw, Georgia. * June 29 – Second Schleswig War: The
Battle of Als The Battle of Als ( da, Slaget om Als; german: Übergang nach Alsen) was fought on 29 June 1864 during the Second Schleswig War between Denmark and Prussia. It was the last major engagement of the war, as the Prussians under General Herwarth ...
is won by the Prussians under General Herwarth von Bittenfeld, who occupy the island of
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after crossing the Alssund, between the village of Sottrupskov and the Sandbjerg Estate, by night. Of 9,000 Danish troops stationed there, a third are killed, wounded or captured.


July–September

* July 2Dimitri Atanasescu founds the first Romanian school in the Balkans for the Aromanians in Trnovo, in the Ottoman Empire (now in North Macedonia). By the early 20th century, the number of these schools will have risen to 106. * July 4 – The University of Bucharest in Romania is founded. * July 18 – President Lincoln issues a true proclamation of conscription of 500,000 men, for the U.S. Civil War. * July 19 – The
Third Battle of Nanking The Third Battle of Nanking in 1864 was the last major engagement of the Taiping Rebellion in the Qing Empire. With the fall of Nanking (now spelled Nanjing), the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the rebellion came to an end. The Hunan ...
climaxes, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom capital of Nanking falls to an assault by Imperial Qing Dynasty forces, in the last major action of the Taiping Rebellion in China. There are probably more than a million troops in the battle, and the Taiping army sustains at least 100,000 dead. * July 20American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman. * July 22American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – Outside of Atlanta, Confederate General Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General Sherman, on Bald Hill. * July 24American Civil War:
Second Battle of Kernstown The Second Battle of Kernstown was fought on July 24, 1864, at Kernstown, Virginia, outside Winchester, Virginia, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 in the American Civil War. The Confederate Army of the Valley under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Ea ...
– Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General
George Crook George R. Crook (September 8, 1828 – March 21, 1890) was a career United States Army officer, most noted for his distinguished service during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. During the 1880s, the Apache nicknamed Crook ''Nantan ...
in an effort to keep the Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley. * July 28American Civil War:
Battle of Ezra Church The Battle of Ezra Church, also known as the Battle of Ezra Chapel and the Battle of the Poor House (July 28, 1864) saw Union Army forces under Major General William T. Sherman fight Confederate States Army troops led by Lieutenant General John ...
– Confederate troops, led by General Hood, make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces under General Sherman from Atlanta. * July 29American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops, and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. * July 30American Civil War:
Battle of the Crater The Battle of the Crater was a battle of the American Civil War, part of the siege of Petersburg. It took place on Saturday, July 30, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee, and the Union Arm ...
– Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines, by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. * August 1 – The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois. * August 5American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay – At Mobile Bay near
Mobile, Alabama Mobile ( , ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 187,041 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 195,111 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 cens ...
, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses, and seals one of the last major Southern ports. * August 10 – An undeclared Uruguayan War begins, when Uruguay refuses an ultimatum from the Empire of Brazil. * August 13 – The first
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shop perhaps opens in London. * August 18American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, forcing the Confederates to use wagons. * August 22 – The
First Geneva Convention The First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, held on 22 August 1864, is the first of four treaties of the Geneva Conventions. It defines "the basis on which rest the rules of internatio ...
, for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, is signed in Geneva by 12 European states, under the auspices of the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded (predecessor of the
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, an ...
). * August 31American Civil War: Union forces, led by General William T. Sherman, launch an assault on Atlanta. * September 1 ** American Civil War: Confederate General Hood evacuates Atlanta, after a 4-month siege mounted by Union General Sherman. ** Charlottetown Conference: Delegates from the Canadian colonies meet, to discuss Canadian Confederation. * September 2American Civil War: Union forces under General Sherman enter Atlanta, a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city. * September 56Bombardment of Shimonoseki: An American, British, Dutch and French alliance engages the powerful feudal Japanese warlord or '' daimyō'' Lord Mōri Takachika, of the Chōshū clan, based in Shimonoseki, Japan. * September 7American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. * September 16
Pope Pius IX Pope Pius IX ( it, Pio IX, ''Pio Nono''; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878, the longest verified papal reign. He was notable for convoking the First Vatican ...
establishes the Diocese of Gozo. *
September 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia". * 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empi ...
American Civil War: The Second Battle of Cabin Creek is fought in Indian Territory. *
September 28 Events Pre-1600 *48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII. * 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...
– The International Workingmen's Association is founded in London.


October–December

* October 1 – A calamity is narrowly averted in London at the Erith explosion * October 2American Civil War: First Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops. * October 5 – A
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kills 70,000 in Calcutta, India. * October 9American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at
Tom's Brook, Virginia Toms Brook is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The population was 258 at the 2010 census. History During the American Civil War, the Battle of Tom's Brook was fought nearby, a Union victory that became dubbed "the Woodstock ...
. * October 10 – The Quebec Conference begins, to discuss plans for the creation of a Dominion of Canada. * October 12Uruguayan War: Forces of the Empire of Brazil invade Uruguay, in support of Venancio Flores' Colorado Party. * October 28American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around
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. * October 30 ** The Second Schleswig War is concluded. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration. **
Helena, Montana Helena (; ) is the capital city of Montana, United States, and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County. Helena was founded as a gold camp during the Montana gold rush, and established on October 30, 1864. Due to the gold rush, Helena would ...
, is founded, after four prospectors (the so-called '' Four Georgians'') discover gold at ''Last Chance Gulch''; it is their last and agreed final attempt for weeks, of trying to find gold in the northern Rockies. ** An annular solar eclipse occurs, the 42nd solar eclipse of Solar Saros 131. * October 31 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state. * November 4 – American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – At Johnsonville, Tennessee, troops under the command of Confederate General
Nathan Bedford Forrest Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821October 29, 1877) was a prominent Confederate Army general during the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1867 to 1869. Before the war, Forrest amassed substantial wealt ...
bombard a Union supply base with artillery, and destroy millions of dollars worth of material. * November 7 – The capital of Idaho Territory is moved from Lewiston, Idaho, Lewiston to Boise; North Idaho declares the move illegal, and proposes secession. * November 8 – 1864 United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln is reelected, in an overwhelming victory over George B. McClellan. * November 12 – Hostilities in the Paraguayan War open, with the Paraguayan ship ''Tacuarí'' capturing the Brazilian ''Marquês de Olinda'', in the Paraguay River. * November 15 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea begins: Union General Sherman burns Atlanta and starts to move south, living off the land, and causing extensive devastation to crops and mills. * November 20 – The judicial reform of Alexander II is launched in the Russian Empire. * November 22 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee, in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General Sherman from Georgia. * November 25 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives, calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan, starts fires in more than 20 locations, in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City. * November 29 – American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre – Colorado volunteers, led by Colonel John Chivington, massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado (where they had been given permission to camp); many of the dead are subsequently mutilated. * November 30 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Franklin – The Confederate Army of Tennessee, led by General Hood, mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood loses 6 generals and almost a third of his troops). * December 1 – The Great Fire of Brisbane breaks out in Australia. * December 4 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops, led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler, from interfering with Union General Sherman's campaign of destroying a wide swath of the South, on his march to Savannah, Georgia, Savannah; Union forces suffer more than 3 times the casualties as the Confederates, however. * December 8 ** James Clerk Maxwell presents his paper, ''A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field'', to the Royal Society in London, treating light as an electromagnetic wave. ** ''Syllabus errorum'':
Pope Pius IX Pope Pius IX ( it, Pio IX, ''Pio Nono''; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878, the longest verified papal reign. He was notable for convoking the First Vatican ...
condemns theological liberalism as an error, and claims the supremacy of Roman Catholic Church authority over civil society. He also condemns rationalism and socialism. ** The Clifton Suspension Bridge across the River Avon (Bristol) in England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and completed as a memorial to him, opens to traffic. * December 13 – Paraguayan War: Paraguay formally declares war on the Empire of Brazil, in support of the National Party (Uruguay), Uruguayan National Party. The war continues to 1870, with around 300,000 Paraguayan deaths. * December 15–December 16, 16 – American Civil War: Battle of Nashville – Union forces decisively defeat the Confederate Army of Tennessee.


Date unknown

* The Second Anglo-Ashanti wars#Second Anglo-Ashanti War, Anglo-Ashanti War ends. * The Dutch conquer southern Sumatra. * Asa Mercer travels from Seattle to the U.S. East Coast, and recruits 11 ''Mercer Girls'', potential wives for men on the West Coast. * The first Quanjude Peking Roast Duck restaurant opens on Qianmen Street in Peking, China. * Yasudaya Currency Exchange Bank, as predecessor of Mizuho Financial Group, is founded in Edo (modern-day Tokyo), Japan. * Merchants Bank of Halifax, as predecessor of Royal Bank of Canada, founded in Nova Scotia.


Births


January–March

* January 1 ** Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (d. 1957) ** Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946) * January 8 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892) *
January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
– Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928) * January 21 – Israel Zangwill, British novelist, playwright (d. 1926) * January 24 – Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist and feminist leader (d. 1936) * January 28 – Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English mechanical engineer, inventor (d. 1927) * February 4 – James Fenton (politician), James Fenton, Australian politician (d. 1950) * February 7 – Arthur Collins (singer), Arthur Collins, early American recording artist (d. 1933) * February 11 – Louis Bouveault, French chemist (d. 1909) *
February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
– Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941) *
February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
– Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, British general (d. 1925) * March 4 – David W. Taylor, American naval architect (d. 1940) * March 12 – W. H. R. Rivers, English psychiatrist (d. 1922) * March 13 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian expressionist painter (d. 1941) * March 14 – Alfred Redl, Austrian military intelligence officer and double agent (suicide 1913) * March 15 – Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935) * March 17 – Joseph Baptista, Indian Home Rule Movement founder (d. 1930) * March 19 – Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926) * March 23 – Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, 26th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1946)


April–June

* April 10 ** Michael Mayr, 2nd Chancellor of Austria (d. 1922) ** Tully Marshall, American actor (d. 1943) * April 11 – Johanna Elberskirchen, German feminist (d. 1943) * April 12 – Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss, British admiral (d. 1933) * April 14 – Artur Văitoianu, Romanian general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1956) * April 21 – Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920) * May 5 – Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, British field marshal, politician (d. 1922) * May 10 – Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer (d. 1946) * May 15 – Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (d. 1916) * May 20 – Vasily Gurko, Russian general (d. 1937) * May 25 – Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, British-born German aristocrat, aviation enthusiast (d. 1927, officially declared dead February 1928) * June 2 – Wilhelm Souchon, German admiral (d. 1946) * June 3 – Ransom E. Olds, American automotive pioneer (d. 1950) * June 10 – Ninian Comper, British architect (d. 1960) * June 11 – Richard Strauss, German composer (d. 1949) * June 13 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator, historian (d. 1939) * June 14 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, neuropathologist (d. 1915) * June 22 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1915, 1909) * June 25 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941) * June 30 – Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect (d. 1945)


July–September

* July 12 ** George Washington Carver, African-American botanist (d. 1943) ** Peter Deunov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944) * July 13 – John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman, inventor (d. 1912) * July 15 – Marie Tempest, English stage, film actress (d. 1942) * July 20 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931) * July 21 – Frances Cleveland, First Lady of the United States (d. 1947) * July 23 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician, Prime Minister (d. 1903) * August 9 – Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (d. 1939) * August 20 – Ion I. C. Brătianu, 5-time prime minister of Romania (d. 1927) * August 23 – Eleftherios Venizelos, 7-time prime minister of Greece (d. 1936) * September 14 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician, diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1958)


October–December

* October 1 – Emma Sheridan Fry, American actress and playwright (d. 1936) * October 5 – Louis Lumière, French inventor (d. 1948) * October 8 – Kikunae Ikeda, Japanese chemist (d. 1936) * October 9 – Reginald Dyer, British army officer, perpetrator of Jallianwala Bagh massacre (d. 1927) * October 15 – Lorenzo Lauri, Italian cardinal (d. 1941) * October 25 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956) * October 31 – Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1945) * November 5 – Jessie Ralph, American actress (d. 1944) * November 1 – Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864–1918), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1918) * November 11 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer, pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921) * November 24 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901) * November 26 – Edward Higgins, 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947) * December 6 **Alberico Albricci, Italian general (d. 1936) **William S. Hart, American film actor, director and writer (d. 1946) * December 8 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor (d. 1943) * December 9 – Breaker Morant, Australian soldier (d. 1902) * December 12 – Paul Elmer More, American critic, essayist (d. 1937) * December 14 – Frank Campeau, American actor (d. 1943) * December 23 – Princess Zorka of Montenegro (d. 1890) * December 25 – Thomas Cahill (soccer), Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (d. 1951) * December 27 – Peyton C. March, American general (d. 1955)


Date unknown

* Ali Rikabi, 2-time prime minister of Jordan (d. 1943)


Deaths


January–June

*
January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
Stephen Foster, American song composer (b. 1826) * January 27 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (b. 1784) * February 7 – Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian linguist, major reformer of the Serbian language (b. 1787) * February 22 – James Sewall Reed, U.S. Army officer (in battle) (b. 1832) *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...
– Anna Harrison, First Lady of the United States (b. 1775) * March 10 – King Maximilian II of Bavaria (b. 1811) * March 28 – Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark (b. 1789) * April 4 – Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808) * April 14 – Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (b. 1777) * May 2 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791) * May 5 – Elizabeth Andrew Warren, Cornish botanist, marine Phycology, algolologist (b. 1786) * May 9John Sedgwick, Union general, American Civil War (b. 1813) * May 12 –
J. E. B. Stuart James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833May 12, 1864) was a United States Army officer from Virginia who became a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb,” from the initials of ...
, Confederate cavalry general, American Civil War (b. 1833) * May 19 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804) * May 20 – John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (b. 1793) * June 1 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1814) * June 13 – Henryk Dembiński, Polish engineer (b. 1791) * June 14 – Patrick Kelly (Civil War), Patrick Kelly, U.S. Army officer (in battle) (b. c. 1822) * June 15 – William E. Jones (general), William E. Jones, Confederate general (in battle) (b. 1824)


July–December

* August 3 – Jakob Walter, German stonemason, common draftee (b. 1788) * August 4 – David Hansemann, Prussian politician (b. 1790) * August 19 – Trương Định, Vietnamese leader (suicide) (b. 1820) * September 3 – Emil Oskar Nobel, younger brother of Alfred Nobel (killed in an explosion) (b. 1843) * October 1 – Juan José Flores, President of Ecuador (b. 1800) * October 12 – Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1777) * November 6 – Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Indonesian religious and military leader (b. 1772) * November 20 – Albert Newsam, American artist (born 1809) * November 30 **John Adams (Confederate Army officer), John Adams, Confederate Army officer (killed in action) (b. 1825) **Patrick Cleburne, Irish soldier, Confederate general (killed in action) (b. 1828) **States Rights Gist, Confederate General (killed in action) (b. 1831) * December 1 – William L. Dayton – United States Minister to France (b. 1807) * December 8 – George Boole, English mathematician, philosopher (b. 1815) * December 21 – Archduke Louis of Austria (b. 1784) * December 23 – James Bronterre O'Brien, British Chartist (b. 1804) * December 24 – Mary Baker (née Willcocks), aka Princess Caraboo (b. 1791) * December 31 – George M. Dallas, U.S. Senator, List of Vice Presidents of the United States, 11th Vice President of the United States (b. 1792)


Date unknown

* Fu Shanxiang, Chinese scholar, Chancellor (b. 1833)


References

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