Mar 10 Grant is named commander of the Union armies
Mar 29 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia AR
Mar 14 Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle", premieres in Paris France
Mar 29 Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
Mar 21 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
Mar 07 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
Mar 23 Encounter at Camden AR
Mar 01 Rebecca Lee (US) becomes first black woman to receive a medical degree
Mar 18 Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
Mar 05 The first track meet between Oxford & Cambridge
Mar 14 Samuel Baker discovers another source of the Nile in East Africa and names it Lake Albert Nyanza.
Mar 07 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
Mar 09 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
Mar 25 Battle of Paducah KY (Forrest's raid)
Mar 10 Red River campaign Louisiana
Mar 11 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
Mar 14 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
Mar 15 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria LA
Mar 01 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
Mar 07 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction VA (Drewry's Bluff)
Mar 30 Skirmish at Mount Elba AR
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
