Historical Events In 1862

Nov 25   On this day in history ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer   

Nov 26   Mark A Stein, archaeologist in the year 1862.   

Nov 28   In the year 1862 battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)   

Nov 29   In the year 1862 friedrich Klose, composer   

Dec 03   Jules Renkin, Belgian jurist/minister/premier (1931-32) in the year 1862.   

Dec 05   Battle of Coffeeville, MS on this day in history.   

Dec 06   Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians in the year 1862.   

Dec 07   In the year 1862 battle of Hartsville, TN   

Dec 07   Paul Adam, French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde) on this day in history.   

Dec 07   On this day in history sylvester Churchill, US Union brig-general, dies   

Dec 08   In the year 1862 georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's)   

Dec 09   In the year 1862 karel Kovarovic, composer   

Dec 12   In the year 1862 battle of Dumfries, VA   

Dec 12   Confederate torpedo (mine) sinks USS Cairo in Yazoo River on this day in history.   

Dec 13   In the year 1862 battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)   

Dec 13   In the year 1862 battle of Fredericksburg, Va; South beats North   

Dec 13   Conrad Feger Jackson, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 49 on this day in history.   

Dec 14   Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [OS] in the year 1862.   

Dec 14   In the year 1862 george Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27   

Dec 16   On this day in history eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la robe)   

Dec 16   In the year 1862 kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution   

Dec 17   Gen US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee in the year 1862.   

Dec 17   In the year 1862 general US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee   

Dec 18   Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid) in the year 1862.   

Dec 18   On this day in history johnson Kelly Duncan, architect/Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 35   

Dec 18   The first orthopedic hospital is organized in New York City (The Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled) in the year 1862.   

Dec 19   On this day in history skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)   

Dec 20   On this day in history -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA   

Dec 20   In the year 1862 robert Knox   

Dec 22   -Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY on this day in history.   

Dec 22   On this day in history connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950)   

Dec 23   Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (History of Belgium) in the year 1862.   

Dec 23   Union Gen Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis in the year 1862.   

Dec 23   Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis in the year 1862.   

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Jan 01   Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor (College, Phantom of the Opera) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)   

Jan 08   Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co) was born in the year 1862.   

Jan 17   In the year 1862 birth of john E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher   

Jan 23   David Hilbert, Königsberg East Prussia, mathematician was born on this day in history.   

Jan 24   In the year 1862 birth of edith Wharton[-Jones], US, novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth)   

Jan 29   Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha) was born in the year 1862.   

Jan 30   On this day in history birth of walter Johannes Damrosch, composer   

Jan 01   In the year 1862 death of mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)   

Jan 05   In the year 1862 joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81   

Jan 10   Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47 in the year 1862.   

Jan 18   John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71 on this day in history.   

Jan 20   Felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines died on this day in history.   

Jan 24   James McIntosh, US confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 33 on this day in history.   

Feb 03   In the year 1862 jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87   

Feb 07   On this day in history frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61