Historical Events In 1863

Oct 15   Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on site) on this day in history.   

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

Oct 16   Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925) on this day in history.   

Oct 16   On this day in history grant is given command of Union forces in West   

Oct 18   In the year 1863 battle of Charlestown, WV   

Oct 19   Battle of Buckland Mills, VA on this day in history.   

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

Oct 21   Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

Oct 24   In the year 1863 manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer   

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

Oct 26   In the year 1863 soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game   

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

Oct 27   In the year 1863 dutch railway to Harlingen opens   

Oct 28   In the year 1863 battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured   

Oct 29   International Red Cross founded by Henri Dunant on this day in history.   

Oct 29   On this day in history intl Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)   

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

Oct 29   On this day in history 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   The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato in the year 1863.   

Nov 01   In the year 1863 -8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia   

Nov 01   In the year 1863 alfred Reisenauer, composer   

Nov 01   On this day in history fortifications built on Angel Island (San Francisco Bay) by troops   

Nov 03   On this day in history battle of Grand Coteau, GA   

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

Nov 06   On this day in history battle of Rogersville TN   

Nov 07   On this day in history battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA   

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

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

Nov 14   In the year 1863 bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee   

Nov 14   Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakelite) on this day in history.   

Nov 14   Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi on this day in history.   

Nov 15   Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies on this day in history.   

Nov 16   On this day in history battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities   

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Jan 01   Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back) was born in the year 1863.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 14   Pieter Oosterlee, Dutch educator was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 02   On this day in history roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 35   

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   E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73 in the year 1863.   

Mar 11   On this day in history death of sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)   

Mar 17   In the year 1863 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 on this day in history.   

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