Page 12: Historical Events In 1863

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

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

Oct 16   Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925) in the year 1863.   

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

Oct 18   On this day in history 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) in the year 1863.   

Oct 21   Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55 in the year 1863.   

Oct 24   Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer in the year 1863.   

Oct 26   Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer in the year 1863.   

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

Oct 26   On this day in history worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva   

Oct 27   Dutch railway to Harlingen opens in the year 1863.   

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

Oct 29   International Red Cross founded by Henri Dunant in the year 1863.   

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

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

Oct 29   The International Red Cross is established on this day in history.   

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

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

Nov 01   In the year 1863 alfred Reisenauer, composer   

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

Nov 03   Battle of Grand Coteau, GA on this day in history.   

Nov 03   Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer in the year 1863.   

Nov 06   In the year 1863 battle of Rogersville TN   

Nov 07   In the year 1863 battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA   

Nov 08   René [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15) in the year 1863.   

Nov 13   On this day in history carnot Posey, Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 50   

Nov 14   Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1863 frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies   

Nov 16   Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities on this day in history.   

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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   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   Pieter Oosterlee, Dutch educator was born in the year 1863.   

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

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

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   John Pelham, US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24 in the year 1863.   

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

Mar 28   James Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52 in the year 1863.