Mar 02 Congress authorizes track width of 4'8½" for Union Pacific RR to be called the "Standard gauge "

Mar 03 Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City NV

Mar 03 Idaho Territory forms

Mar 20 Battle of Pensacola FL: evacuated by Federals

Mar 25 The first Army Medal of Honor awarded

Mar 27 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer

Mar 03 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia

Mar 30 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg chosen as king George of Greece

Mar 04 Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee

Mar 21 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon

Mar 03 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences

Mar 11 Free city delivery of mail was authorized by the U.S. Postal Service.

Mar 27 The birth of Sir Henry Royce, The motor car designer of Rolls Royce fame

Mar 03 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress

Mar 03 US wartime military conscription bill enacted

Mar 14 RADM Farragut's squadron of 7 ships forces way up Mississippi River to support Union troops at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge

Mar 24 Bushrangers Charles Robardi and Auguste Rivet stand trial at Goulburn, NSW, for murdering mail carrier Daniel Crotty. (

Mar 20 Battle of Pensacola FL evacuated by Federals

Mar 25 Skirmish at Brentwood TN

Mar 03 Free city delivery of mail was authorized by the U.S. Postal Service.

Mar 26 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves

Mar 17 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities)

Mar 04 Territory of Idaho established

Aug 17 Federal batteries &ships bombard Fort Sumter, Charleston

Aug 14 First Kanakas arrive in Brisbane for employment on cotton plantation.

Aug 11 French protectorate over Cambodia is established.

Aug 12 First cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)

Aug 15 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars

Aug 16 Emancipation Proclamation signed

Aug 12 The first cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet for export.

Sep 19 Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat

Sep 27 Jo Shelby's calvery in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas

Sep 17 Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada

Sep 22 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech

Sep 29 The opera "Pescatori di Perle", more properly known as "Les Pêcheurs de Perles", is produced (Paris)

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