Dec 16 Battle of Nashville

Dec 01 Fire in Brisbane destroys city area bounded by Queen, George, Elizabeth and Albert streets.

Dec 10 Sherman reaches Savannah and 12 day siege begins

Dec 22 HMS Bombay at Montevideo lost to fire off Montevideo, with the loss of nearly a hundred lives

Aug 22 International Red Cross Founded

Aug 05 Spectrum of a comet observed for first time, by Giovanni Donati

Aug 22 Geneva Convention signed, by 12 nations

Aug 25 Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda

Aug 01 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens

Aug 04 Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas

Aug 22 International Red Cross formed in Geneva, Switzerland

Aug 25 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station

Aug 18 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days

Aug 23 Fall of Fort Morgan at Mobile

Aug 15 Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners

Aug 06 Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd

Aug 31 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesborough

Aug 02 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens

Aug 29 William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae

Oct 04 New Orleans Tribune, first black daily newspaper, forms

Oct 11 Slavery abolished in Maryland

Oct 31 Nevada admitted as 36th state

Oct 05 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)

Oct 23 Battle of Westport, Missouri

Oct 05 Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing the South

Oct 04 National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)

Oct 23 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price

Oct 30 Helena, Montana's capital, founded

Jul 02 Statuary Hall in US Capitol established

Jul 11 Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash DC

Jul 20 Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign

Jul 23 Dr Livingstone, the African missionary, returns to England

Jul 17 CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood

Jul 02 Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester

Jul 22 Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman & suffers terrible losses

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