Historical Events In 1863

Aug 12   1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area) on this day in history.  

Aug 12   In the year 1863 first cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)  

Aug 12   In the year 1863 the first cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet for export.  

Aug 14   In the year 1863 colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70  

Aug 14   In the year 1863 first Kanakas arrive in Brisbane for employment on cotton plantation.  

Aug 15   In the year 1863 submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars  

Aug 16   On this day in history chickamauga campaign GA  

Aug 16   Emancipation Proclamation signed on this day in history.  

Aug 17   In the year 1863 federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC  

Aug 17   Federal batteries &ships bombard Fort Sumter, Charleston in the year 1863.  

Aug 18   Thomas Welsh, US Union brig-general (Antietam), dies at 39 in the year 1863.  

Aug 21   Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill on this day in history.  

Aug 26   On this day in history battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)  

Aug 26   On this day in history john Buchanan Floyd, US min of War (1857-60)/Confederate general, dies  

Sep 01   6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia on this day in history.  

Sep 01   RR &ferry connection between SF &Oakland inaugurated on this day in history.  

Sep 03   First Australian troops arrive in New Zealand in the year 1863.  

Sep 05   Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama on this day in history.  

Sep 06   -7] Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties) in the year 1863.  

Sep 06   On this day in history after 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC  

Sep 06   In the year 1863 lucius March Walker, Confederate brig-general (in duel), dies at 33  

Sep 06   Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist (El Papiamento) on this day in history.  

Sep 07   Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass in the year 1863.  

Sep 08   -10] Federal troops reconquer the Cumperland Gap, Tennessee on this day in history.  

Sep 08   47 Texas volunteers repel Federal invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX on this day in history.  

Sep 08   Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer on this day in history.  

Sep 09   Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN on this day in history.  

Sep 10   George Bizets opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris on this day in history.  

Sep 13   Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934) in the year 1863.  

Sep 15   On this day in history horatio William Parker, composer  

Sep 16   On this day in history robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.  

Sep 17   Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies on this day in history.  

Sep 17   Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada in the year 1863.  

Sep 18   Hermann Kutter, Swiss Christ-social theologist 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   Pierre de Coubertin, France, baron (revived Olympic games) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 12   On this day in history birth of vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer  

Jan 14   In the year 1863 birth of pieter Oosterlee, Dutch educator  

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of adolph Goldschmidt, German historian  

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

Jan 17   David Lloyd George, (L-PM-Britain, 1916-22) was born in the year 1863.  

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

Jan 09   On this day in history ferdinand Huber, composer, dies at 71  

Jan 10   In the year 1863 death of lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)  

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

Mar 11   On this day in history 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   Edwin Vose Sumner, US Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66 in the year 1863.  

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