Historical Events In 1862

Aug 28   In the year 1862 belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC   

Aug 29   In the year 1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins   

Aug 29   In the year 1862 battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels   

Aug 29   On this day in history p M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911)   

Aug 29   US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation on this day in history.   

Aug 30   On this day in history 2nd Battle of Bull Run   

Aug 30   On this day in history battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY   

Aug 30   In the year 1862 battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee   

Aug 30   Confederate troops defeat Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA in the year 1862.   

Aug 31   George William Taylor, US Union brig-general, dies in battle on this day in history.   

Sep 01   In the year 1862 adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist   

Sep 01   On this day in history battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)   

Sep 01   Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44 on this day in history.   

Sep 01   Severe action at Chantilly, Virginia in the year 1862.   

Sep 02   Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40 on this day in history.   

Sep 04   Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops on this day in history.   

Sep 04   North Beach &Mission Railway Company organized in SF on this day in history.   

Sep 05   On this day in history lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland   

Sep 05   Lee crosses the Potomac &enters Maryland on this day in history.   

Sep 06   On this day in history stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland   

Sep 06   Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland in the year 1862.   

Sep 09   Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry in the year 1862.   

Sep 09   On this day in history lee splits his army &sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry   

Sep 10   Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71 in the year 1862.   

Sep 11   O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], short story writer in the year 1862.   

Sep 12   Battle of Harpers Ferry VA in the year 1862.   

Sep 13   Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament on this day in history.   

Sep 14   In the year 1862 battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates   

Sep 14   Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39 in the year 1862.   

Sep 15   On this day in history confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV   

Sep 15   In the year 1862 stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry   

Sep 16   In the year 1862 battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md)   

Sep 16   Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4000 federals at Munfordville, KY in the year 1862.   

Sep 17   Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor (College, Phantom of the Opera)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)   

Jan 08   Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co) was born in the year 1862.   

Jan 17   John E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher was born on this day in history.   

Jan 23   David Hilbert, Königsberg East Prussia, mathematician was born in the year 1862.   

Jan 24   In the year 1862 birth of edith Wharton[-Jones], US, novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth)   

Jan 29   Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 30   Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer was born in the year 1862.   

Jan 01   Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801) died on this day in history.   

Jan 05   In the year 1862 joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81   

Jan 10   Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47 on this day in history.   

Jan 18   John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71 in the year 1862.   

Jan 20   Felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines died on this day in history.   

Jan 24   On this day in history james McIntosh, US confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 33   

Feb 03   On this day in history jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87   

Feb 07   Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.