Historical Events In 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) on this day in history.  

Oct 16   Grant is given command of Union forces in West in the year 1863.  

Oct 18   On this day in history battle of Charlestown, WV  

Oct 19   On this day in history battle of Buckland Mills, VA  

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

Oct 21   In the year 1863 lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55  

Oct 24   Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer on this day in history.  

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   Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva in the year 1863.  

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

Oct 28   Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured in the year 1863.  

Oct 29   On this day in history international Red Cross founded by Henri Dunant  

Oct 29   Intl Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963) in the year 1863.  

Oct 29   Intl Comm of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963) on this day in history.  

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

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

Oct 31   On this day in history the Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.  

Nov 01   -8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia on this day in history.  

Nov 01   Alfred Reisenauer, composer in the year 1863.  

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   Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer in the year 1863.  

Nov 06   Battle of Rogersville TN in the year 1863.  

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

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

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

Nov 14   On this day in history bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee  

Nov 14   Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakelite) in the year 1863.  

Nov 14   Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi in the year 1863.  

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

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

Nov 17   -Dec 4th) Battle of Knoxville, TN 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   In the year 1863 birth of pierre de Coubertin, France, baron (revived Olympic games)  

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   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 on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1863.  

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