Feb 10 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York NY)

Feb 26 Lincoln signs National Currency Act

Apr 21 Declaration of Bah 'u'll h; Bah '¡ Feast of Ridv n (Jalƒl 13, 20)

Apr 10 Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn

Apr 01 Wartime conscription law in US goes into effect

Apr 16 Union gunboats pass Confederate batteries at Vicksburg

Apr 18 In Weston-super-Mare, England Augustus Love born. Love waves, named after A.E.H. Love, are earthquake waves that move horizontally with respect to the direction of travel, with no vertical motion.

Apr 29 The birth of William Randolph Hearst, American publisher

Apr 08 Wartime conscription law in US goes into effect

Nov 14 Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee

Nov 01 Fortifications built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops

Nov 14 Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi

Nov 23 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs

Nov 24 Civil War battle for Lookout Mountain began in Tennessee

Nov 19 US President Abraham Lincoln, delivers the famous 'Gettysburg' address

Nov 25 Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee

Nov 23 Battle of Chattanooga begins

Nov 19 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score and7 years..."

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)

Sep 21 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga

Sep 03 First Australian troops arrive in New Zealand

Sep 08 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX

Sep 06 After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC

Sep 07 Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass

Sep 20 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ends

Sep 01 RR &ferry connection between SF &Oakland inaugurated

Sep 23 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins

Jun 05 CSS "Alabama" captures the "Tailsman" in the Mid Atlantic

Jun 20 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state

Jun 10 Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds

Jun 20 First bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)

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