May 01 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi

May 27 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die

May 03 Battle of Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights)

May 03 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws

May 01 Battle of Chancellorsville VA (29,000 injured or died)

May 01 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers

May 04 Battle of Chancellorsville ends-Beaten Union army withdraws

May 22 War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops

May 27 Siege of Port Hudson LA

May 28 The first black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

May 12 Battle of Raymond MS

May 16 Battle of Champion's Hill MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign

May 18 Siege of Vicksburg MS

May 05 Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round

May 08 Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia

May 14 Battle of Jackson MS

May 17 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi

May 05 Battle of Tupelo MS

May 21 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins

May 01 Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars &Bars"

May 02 Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville VA, wounded by his own men; South defeats North

May 03 Battle of Salem Church VA

May 22 General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg

Jan 01 Battle of Helena AK

Jan 11 CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston

Jan 12 President Davis delivers his "State of the Confederacy" address

Jan 02 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends

Jan 31 The first black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army

Jan 26 54th Regiment (Black) infantry forms

Jan 01 The birth of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern olympics

Jan 21 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years

Jan 15 The first US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal

Jan 23 Toronto Stock Exchange introduces first regular daily trading sessions.

Jan 16 Cruise of CSS Florida

Jan 21 Outback explorers Robert Burke and William Wills given heroes' funeral in Melbourne.

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