Jun 29 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN

Jun 17 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)

Jun 18 After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg

Jun 09 Battle of Brandy Station, Va

Jun 17 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back the Union in Virginia

Jun 14 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia

Jun 07 Mexico City captured by French troops

Jun 29 Very first First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa

Dec 08 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile

Dec 08 Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South

Dec 14 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee

Dec 12 The birth of Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter

Dec 07 The birth of Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer

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.

Oct 29 The International Red Cross is established.

Oct 29 International Red Cross founded by Henri Dunant

Oct 26 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer

Oct 03 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day

Oct 06 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the First public bath, in Brooklyn

Oct 26 Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva

Oct 15 Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site)

Oct 29 Intl Comm of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)

Jul 09 Union troops enter Port Hudson

Jul 10 Clement Clarke Moore ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83

Jul 13 Beginning of the New York draft riots, regarded as the worst in United States history.

Jul 26 At Salineville, OH John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender

Jul 02 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)

Jul 04 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces

Jul 13 Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die

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