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Born :03/12/1863Adolf A Wolfschoon, Cura‡aos poet
Born :01/15/1863Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian
Born :10/09/1863Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
Born :09/23/1863Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist (bacteria plague)
Born :11/30/1863Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
Born :12/11/1863Annie Jump Cannon, US, stellar spectroscopist/author
Born :12/15/1863Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon)
Born :09/13/1863Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934)
Born :11/21/1863Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor (Oxford Book of English Verse)
Born :02/19/1863Augusto Bernardino Legu¡a y Salcedo, president of Per£ (1908, 1919)
Born :10/16/1863Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)
Born :07/21/1863C Aubrey Smith, London England, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
Born :10/13/1863C-E Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer (Rateau steam turbine)
Born :04/26/1863Charles Haslewood Shannon, lithographer/painter
Born :04/22/1863Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher
Born :01/17/1863David Lloyd George, (L-PM-Britain) (1916-22)
Born :12/25/1863E Fern ndez Arb¢s, Spanish violinist/conductor/composer
Born :06/04/1863Edmond R H Regout, industrialist/politician
Born :06/11/1863Eduard David, German parliamentary member (constitution of Weimar)
Born :12/12/1863Edvard Munch, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream)
Born :07/13/1863Emma Mary Wooley, educator (Mary Anna Wells)
Born :01/31/1863F Henri Berz, French existensialist philospher (Revue the Synthesis)
Born :06/02/1863Felix Weingartner, Germany, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia)
Born :05/31/1863Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer
Born :12/18/1863French Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (Sarajevo/WW I)
Born :08/16/1863Gabriel Piern‚, Metz France, composer (Edith)
Born :03/12/1863Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder)
Born :08/01/1863Gaston Doumergue, premier/pres of France (1913..34)
Born :12/16/1863George Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan)
Born :04/02/1863Henry C Van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect (Art Nouveau)
Born :07/30/1863Henry Ford, Dearborn Township, Mich, auto maker (Ford)
Born :03/27/1863Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
Born :07/19/1863Hermann Bahr, Austria writer (That Neuen Men)
Born :09/18/1863Hermann Kutter, Swiss Christ-social theologist
Born :06/29/1863James Harvey Robinson, Ill, historian (Ordeal of Civilization)
Born :04/17/1863Johannes P Boskaljon, Cura‡aos composer/conductor
Born :10/19/1863John Huston Finley, Ill, editor (NY Times (1937-38)
Born :12/13/1863John Weiss, German new testament
Born :01/17/1863Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russia, actor/director
Born :11/14/1863Leo Baekeland, Belgian chemist (Bakelite)
Born :06/10/1863Louis M A Couperus, poet/writer (Eline Vere)
Born :01/02/1863Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
Born :10/05/1863Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist
Born :09/23/1863Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
Born :12/05/1863Paul Painlev‚, French PM (1917, 1925), mathematician
Born :12/15/1863Paul [Prudent] Painlev‚, French mathematician/minister/premier
Born :01/01/1863Pierre de Coubertin, France, baron (revived Olympic games)
Born :01/14/1863Pieter Oosterlee, educator
Born :12/16/1863Ralph Adams Cram, US, gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC)
Born :04/12/1863Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding School)
Born :11/08/1863Ren‚ [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15)
Born :09/06/1863Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist (El Papiamento)
Born :12/07/1863Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (boskoning)
Born :11/29/1863S˜fert H Koorders, botanist (Java)
Born :01/12/1863Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer
Born :01/15/1863Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia)
Born :04/29/1863William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I)
Born :03/11/1863Wobbe de Vries, linguist




Died :09/17/1863Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies
Died :09/17/1863Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies
Died :07/10/1863Clement Clarke Moore, ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
Died :01/17/1863E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies
Died :07/08/1863Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 65
Died :11/15/1863Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies
Died :11/20/1863James Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, governor Jamaica, dies
Died :07/03/1863Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
Died :07/26/1863Sam Houston, president of Texas, dies at 70
Died :05/10/1863Stonewall Jackson, General, dies of wounds at Chancellorsville
Interest:05/02/1863[Bah '¡] 12th day of Ridv n (festival); Jam l 5, 20
Interest:04/29/1863[Bah '¡] 9th day of Ridv n (Bah '¡ festival); Jam l 2, 20




Special :01/16/1863-Aug 23rd) Cruise of CSS Florida
Special :11/26/1863-Dec 2) Mine Run campaign, VA
Special :11/17/1863-Dec 4th) Battle of Knoxville, TN
Special :01/09/1863-Jan 11th) Battle of Arkansas Post, AK (Ft Hindman)
Special :02/10/18631st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
Special :01/15/18631st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
Special :03/03/18631st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
Special :06/20/18631st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
Special :01/31/18631st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
Special :05/28/18631st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
Special :08/12/18631st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
Special :01/01/18631st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr
Special :07/07/18631st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
Special :01/10/18631st underground railway opens in London
Special :04/01/18631st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect
Special :12/08/18632,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile
Special :01/04/18634 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
Special :09/08/186347 Texas volunteers repel Federal invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX
Special :10/01/18635 Russian warships come to NY
Special :01/26/186354th Regiment (Black) infantry forms
Special :12/08/1863Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
Special :03/03/1863Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
Special :09/06/1863After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC
Special :06/18/1863After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
Special :07/23/1863Alexandra Park opens in North London
Special :02/24/1863Arizona Territory created
Special :07/26/1863At Salineville, OH John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender
Special :06/14/1863Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
Special :06/17/1863Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia
Special :12/14/1863Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn
Special :05/17/1863Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS
Special :10/09/1863Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
Special :06/09/1863Battle of Brandy Station, VA (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford)
Special :06/10/1863Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
Special :10/19/1863Battle of Buckland Mills, VA
Special :07/19/1863Battle of Buffington's Island, OH
Special :11/16/1863Battle of Campbell's Station, TN
Special :05/16/1863Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
Special :04/29/1863Battle of Chancellordville, VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)
Special :05/01/1863Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died)
Special :05/03/1863Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
Special :05/04/1863Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
Special :04/07/1863Battle of Charleston SC
Special :10/18/1863Battle of Charlestown, WV
Special :11/23/1863Battle of Chattanooga & Orchard Knob, TN begins
Special :11/24/1863Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia & Lookout Mt begins in Tennessee
Special :09/19/1863Battle of Chickamauga GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat
Special :09/09/1863Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN
Special :07/03/1863Battle of Donaldsonville, LA
Special :07/14/1863Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek)
Special :07/18/1863Battle of Fort Wagner, SC - Second assault US1500 CS174
Special :06/05/1863Battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run)
Special :05/03/1863Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
Special :11/29/1863Battle of Ft Sanders, TN (Ft Loudon)
Special :01/01/1863Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city
Special :07/02/1863Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)
Special :07/03/1863Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North
Special :07/01/1863Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted
Special :11/03/1863Battle of Grand Coteau, GA
Special :03/31/1863Battle of Grand Gulf MS & Dinwiddie Court House VA
Special :07/17/1863Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
Special :07/17/1863Battle of Honey Springs, largest battle of war in Indian Territory
Special :04/13/1863Battle of Irish Bend, LA (Ft Bisland)
Special :05/14/1863Battle of Jackson, MS
Special :07/05/1863Battle of Jackson, MS & Battle of Birdsong Ferry, MS
Special :03/17/1863Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
Special :01/25/1863Battle of Kinston, NC
Special :08/01/1863Battle of Little Rock AK & Start of Chattanooga campaign
Special :06/06/1863Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD
Special :06/07/1863Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA-Jefferson Davis' home burnt
Special :11/25/1863Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
Special :01/02/1863Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
Special :11/27/1863Battle of Payne's Farm, VA
Special :03/20/1863Battle of Pensacola FL -evacuated by Federals
Special :05/01/1863Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
Special :11/07/1863Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA
Special :05/12/1863Battle of Raymond, Miss
Special :08/26/1863Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)
Special :11/06/1863Battle of Rogersville TN
Special :09/08/1863Battle of Sabine Pass TX-47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces
Special :05/03/1863Battle of Salem Church, VA
Special :07/26/1863Battle of Salineville, OH John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender
Special :09/20/1863Battle of Shepardstown VA
Special :04/27/1863Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL
Special :04/11/1863Battle of Suffolk, VA (Norfleet House)
Special :09/08/1863Battle of Telford's Depot TN
Special :03/04/1863Battle of Thompson's Station, TN
Special :05/05/1863Battle of Tupelo, MS
Special :07/06/1863Battle of Williamsport, MD [-Jul 07]
Special :11/14/1863Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee
Special :05/01/1863Beginning of 4-day Battle of Chancellorsville
Special :07/04/1863Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
Special :09/05/1863Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama
Special :04/02/1863Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia
Special :06/05/1863CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic
Special :05/27/1863CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die
Special :08/01/1863Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
Special :01/13/1863Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, NYC
Special :08/16/1863Chickamauga campaign GA
Special :01/21/1863City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
Special :09/20/1863Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tenn, ends
Special :01/17/1863Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia
Special :10/15/1863Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on site)
Special :05/08/1863Confederaci¢n Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia
Special :05/01/1863Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
Special :09/23/1863Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins
Special :03/03/1863Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada
Special :02/25/1863Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
Special :04/21/1863Declaration of Bah 'u'll h; Bah '¡ Feast of Ridv n (Jalƒl 13, 20)
Special :10/06/1863Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
Special :01/01/1863Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln
Special :08/16/1863Emancipation Proclamation signed
Special :05/04/1863End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
Special :08/17/1863Federal batteries & ships bombard Fort Sumter, Charleston
Special :09/07/1863Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass
Special :02/24/1863Forrest's raid on Brentwood, Tennessee
Special :11/01/1863Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops
Special :07/01/1863Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3›/« oz
Special :03/03/1863Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
Special :01/25/1863General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
Special :03/03/1863Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress
Special :08/03/1863Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY
Special :10/16/1863Grant is given command of Union forces in West
Special :06/02/1863Harriet Tubman leads Union guerillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
Special :10/29/1863Intl Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
Special :09/14/1863J C Watson discovers asteroid #79 Eurynome
Special :12/08/1863Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
Special :09/27/1863Jo Shelby's calvery in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas
Special :05/05/1863Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round
Special :06/29/1863Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN
Special :03/03/1863Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
Special :11/19/1863Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score & 7 years..."
Special :10/03/1863Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
Special :02/26/1863Lincoln signs National Currency Act
Special :12/03/1863Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
Special :06/07/1863Mexico City captured by French troops
Special :01/01/1863Naval Engagement at Galveston, TX - attack on blockade fleet
Special :03/21/1863Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
Special :06/17/1863Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
Special :01/11/1863Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras
Special :10/05/1863Navel Engagement at Charleston, SC CSS David vs USS New Ironsides
Special :07/06/1863Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
Special :09/29/1863Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris)
Special :07/07/1863Orders barring Jews from serving under US Grant are revoked
Special :02/10/1863PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren
Special :11/23/1863Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
Special :06/24/1863Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
Special :09/17/1863Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada
Special :07/15/1863Pres Davis orders service duty for confederate army
Special :12/08/1863Pres Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters
Special :03/27/1863President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
Special :01/12/1863President Davis delivers his "State of the Confederacy" address
Special :04/17/1863R Grierson's: La Grange, TN to Baton Rouge, LA
Special :03/15/1863R Luther discovers asteroid #78 Diana
Special :07/09/1863R Morgan's: Indiana [->JUL 13]
Special :07/02/1863R Morgan's:Burksville, KY to Salineville, OH [->JUL 26]
Special :09/01/1863RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
Special :08/21/1863Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
Special :04/10/1863Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn
Special :06/13/1863Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ
Special :02/02/1863Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
Special :08/03/1863Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
Special :05/27/1863Seige of Port Hudson LA
Special :05/18/1863Seige of Vicksburg, MS
Special :05/19/1863Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
Special :05/21/1863Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
Special :11/14/1863Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
Special :07/04/1863Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
Special :07/01/1863Slavery abolished in Suriname & Netherland Antilles
Special :10/26/1863Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game
Special :08/15/1863Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
Special :03/04/1863Territory of Idaho established
Special :06/17/1863Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
Special :06/23/1863Tullahoma campaign, TN
Special :06/25/1863US General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggresive
Special :01/22/1863Union Gen Burnside's "Mud March"
Special :01/11/1863Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft Hindman, Arkansas
Special :09/21/1863Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga
Special :07/09/1863Union troops enter Port Hudson
Special :06/29/1863Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
Special :07/04/1863Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
Special :03/26/1863Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
Special :01/26/1863War Dept authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops
Special :05/22/1863War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
Special :06/20/1863West Virginia admitted as 35th US state

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