Historical Events In 1863

Aug 11   French protectorate over Cambodia is established in the year 1863.  

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

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

Aug 12   The first cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet for export on this day in history.  

Aug 14   Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70 in the year 1863.  

Aug 14   First Kanakas arrive in Brisbane for employment on cotton plantation on this day in history.  

Aug 15   Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars on this day in history.  

Aug 16   Chickamauga campaign GA in the year 1863.  

Aug 16   Emancipation Proclamation signed in the year 1863.  

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   In the year 1863 thomas Welsh, US Union brig-general (Antietam), dies at 39  

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

Aug 26   In the year 1863 battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)  

Aug 26   In the year 1863 john Buchanan Floyd, US min of War (1857-60)/Confederate general, dies  

Sep 01   In the year 1863 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia  

Sep 01   RR &ferry connection between SF &Oakland inaugurated in the year 1863.  

Sep 03   On this day in history first Australian troops arrive in New Zealand  

Sep 05   In the year 1863 bread revolt in Mobile Alabama  

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

Sep 06   After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC on this day in history.  

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

Sep 06   Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist (El Papiamento) in the year 1863.  

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

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

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

Sep 08   Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer in the year 1863.  

Sep 09   In the year 1863 battle of Cumberland Gap, TN  

Sep 10   On this day in history george Bizets opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris  

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

Sep 15   Horatio William Parker, composer on this day in history.  

Sep 16   Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist in the year 1863.  

Sep 17   Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies in the year 1863.  

Sep 17   Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada 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   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Jan 15   Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian was born in the year 1863.  

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia)  

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

Jan 02   In the year 1863 roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 35  

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   Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803) died in the year 1863.  

Mar 17   John Pelham, US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24 on this day in history.  

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

Mar 28   On this day in history james Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52