Historical Events In 1863

Oct 15   Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on site) in the year 1863.  

Oct 15   On this day in history cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on the site)  

Oct 16   On this day in history austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)  

Oct 16   Grant is given command of Union forces in West on this day in history.  

Oct 18   Battle of Charlestown, WV on this day in history.  

Oct 19   In the year 1863 battle of Buckland Mills, VA  

Oct 19   John Huston Finley, Ill, editor (NY Times (1937-38) on this day in history.  

Oct 21   In the year 1863 lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55  

Oct 24   On this day in history manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer  

Oct 26   On this day in history football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer  

Oct 26   Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game in the year 1863.  

Oct 26   In the year 1863 worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva  

Oct 27   On this day in history dutch railway to Harlingen opens  

Oct 28   Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured in the year 1863.  

Oct 29   On this day in history international Red Cross founded by Henri Dunant  

Oct 29   In the year 1863 intl Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)  

Oct 29   Intl Comm of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963) on this day in history.  

Oct 29   In the year 1863 the International Red Cross is established.  

Oct 31   Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US brig-general (Union), dies at 51 on this day in history.  

Oct 31   In the year 1863 the Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.  

Nov 01   -8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia on this day in history.  

Nov 01   On this day in history alfred Reisenauer, composer  

Nov 01   In the year 1863 fortifications built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops  

Nov 03   In the year 1863 battle of Grand Coteau, GA  

Nov 03   In the year 1863 eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer  

Nov 06   Battle of Rogersville TN on this day in history.  

Nov 07   Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA on this day in history.  

Nov 08   On this day in history rené [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15)  

Nov 13   In the year 1863 carnot Posey, Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 50  

Nov 14   On this day in history bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee  

Nov 14   Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakelite) in the year 1863.  

Nov 14   In the year 1863 skirmish at Danville, Mississippi  

Nov 15   On this day in history frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies  

Nov 16   Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities in the year 1863.  

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back)  

Jan 01   In the year 1863 birth of pierre de Coubertin, France, baron (revived Olympic games)  

Jan 02   Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17) was born in the year 1863.  

Jan 12   Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer was born in the year 1863.  

Jan 14   On this day in history birth of pieter Oosterlee, Dutch educator  

Jan 15   Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian was born on this day in history.  

Jan 15   Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 17   In the year 1863 birth of david Lloyd George, (L-PM-Britain, 1916-22)  

Jan 02   Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 35 on this day in history.  

Jan 09   Ferdinand Huber, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Jan 10   Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775) died in the year 1863.  

Jan 17   In the year 1863 e J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73  

Mar 11   In the year 1863 death of sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)  

Mar 17   On this day in history john Pelham, US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24  

Mar 21   On this day in history edwin Vose Sumner, US Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66  

Mar 28   James Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52 on this day in history.