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) in the year 1863.   

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

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) on this day in history.   

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

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

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

Oct 26   Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game on this day in history.   

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

Oct 27   Dutch railway to Harlingen opens on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1863 the International Red Cross is established.   

Oct 31   Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US brig-general (Union), dies at 51 in the year 1863.   

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   -8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia in the year 1863.   

Nov 01   Alfred Reisenauer, composer on this day in history.   

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

Nov 03   In the year 1863 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   On this day in history 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) on this day in history.   

Nov 14   On this day in history skirmish at Danville, Mississippi   

Nov 15   On this day in history frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 01   Pierre de Coubertin, France, baron (revived Olympic games) was born in the year 1863.   

Jan 02   In the year 1863 birth of lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)   

Jan 12   Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer was born in the year 1863.   

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

Jan 15   In the year 1863 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   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   E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

Mar 11   In the year 1863 death of sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)   

Mar 17   On this day in history john Pelham, US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24   

Mar 21   In the year 1863 edwin Vose Sumner, US Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66   

Mar 28   In the year 1863 james Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52