Page 11: Historical Events In 1863

Sep 19   battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat.   

Sep 19   preston Smith, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 39.   

Sep 20   Battle of Shepardstown VA   

Sep 20   benjamin Hardin Helm, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies at 33.   

Sep 20   Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ends   

Sep 21   union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga.   

Sep 22   president Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech.   

Sep 23   Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist (bacteria plague)   

Sep 23   confederate siege of Chattanooga begins.   

Sep 27   jo Shelby's calvery in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas.   

Sep 27   jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas.   

Sep 28   Charles, Lisbon Portugal, king (1889-1908)   

Sep 29   franz Zorell, German RC exegetist/lexicographer.   

Sep 29   Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris)   

Sep 30   Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I)   

Oct 01   5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC.   

Oct 02   Justinus van de Brugghen, lawyer/minister of Justice, dies   

Oct 03   Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day   

Oct 04   Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69   

Oct 05   Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides   

Oct 05   ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist.   

Oct 06   battle at Baxter Springs Kansas.   

Oct 06   dr Charles H Sheppard opens the inaugural public bath, in Brooklyn.   

Oct 09   alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91).   

Oct 09   Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)   

Oct 10   skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties).   

Oct 11   skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee.   

Oct 11   xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer.   

Oct 13   C-E Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer (Rateau steam turbine)   

Oct 13   Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties)   

Oct 14   battle at Bristoe Station Virginia (about 2000 casualties).   

Oct 15   Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on site)   

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

Oct 16   Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)   

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Jan 01   Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   Pierre de Coubertin, France, baron (revived Olympic games) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)   

Jan 12   Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 15   In the year 1863 birth of adolph Goldschmidt, German historian   

Jan 15   Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia) was born in the year 1863.   

Jan 17   On this day in history 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 in the year 1863.   

Jan 10   On this day in history death of lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)   

Jan 17   On this day in history 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   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   On this day in history james Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52