Apr 04 Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas

Apr 25 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas

Nov 30 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee

Nov 10 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico

Nov 09 The first export of goods from Burrard Inlet, B.C.on Canada's West Coast to a foreign country

Nov 15 Sherman burns Atlanta

Nov 29 At dawn in Colorado territory, a militia under Major John Chivington attacks a winter encampment of Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek, massacring over four hundred Indians, the majority of whom are women, children, or old men

Nov 29 1,200 American troops attack a camp of Cheyenne and Arapho indians who had surrended

Nov 11 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia

Nov 29 Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians

Nov 08 Abraham Lincoln elected to his 2nd term as President

Nov 04 HMS Racehorse in the China Seas. The wreck of this ship, with the loss of a hundred lives, near Chefoo, at the southern entrance of the gulf of Pecheli, the Racehorse, 4, screw gun vessel, 200 horse power, and 695 tons, was built for the Admiralty by Messrs. Wigram and Co.,

Nov 25 Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails

Nov 16 General William T. Sherman and his Union army troops begin their March to the Sea during the American Civil War.

Sep 04 Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama

Sep 02 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta

Sep 19 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia

Jun 03 Battle of Cold Harbour continues

Jun 14 Battle of Pine Mt, Gen Leonidas Polk killed in action

Jun 15 Arlington National Cemetary is established by an order signed by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

Jun 20 Australians in engagement at Te Ranga, New Zealand

Jun 15 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line

Jun 10 Siege of Petersburgbegins and lasts until April 2, 1865

Jun 02 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2

Jun 29 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed

Jun 07 Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party

Jun 18 At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults

Jun 01 Battle of Cold Harbour, VA

Jun 11 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm

Jun 16 Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins

Jun 19 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France

Jun 25 Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines

Jun 27 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

Jun 15 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a miltary cemetery

Dec 04 Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law

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