December 1863 in History

Events in History

Dec 3 Confederate General James Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN

Dec 8 2,500 reported killed as result of fire at Jesuit Church of La Compana, Santiago, Chile

Dec 8 Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South

Dec 16 Braxton Bragg is replaced by Joseph E. Johnston as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee

Dec 2 Charles Ringling, American circus owner (Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus), born in McGregor, Iowa (d. 1926)
Dec 5 Paul Painlevé, French Prime Minister (1917, 1925), born in Paris (d. 1933)
Dec 6 Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and investor, born in Thompson, Ohio (d. 1914)
Dec 7 Svetolik Ranković, Serbian writer (Forest King), born in Velika Moštanica, Principality of Serbia (d. 1899)
Dec 7 Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (Free Democratic Party), born in Scuol, Switzerland

Dec 11 Annie Jump Cannon, American stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification), born in Dover, Delaware (d. 1941)

Dec 12 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and print maker (The Scream), born in Ådalsbruk, Løten, Norway (d. 1944)

Dec 13 Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar, born in Kiel, Germany (d. 1914)
Dec 15 Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist (patented rayon), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1935)
Dec 16 George Santayana, Spanish philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan)
Dec 16 Ralph Adams Cram, American gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC)

Dec 18 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria whose assassination in 1914 led to declarations of war in WWI, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1914)

Dec 22 Jean-Baptiste Marchand, French military officer & explorer in Africa, born in Thoissey, France (d. 1934)
Dec 31 Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Dizionario Moderno), born in Senigallia, Italy (d. 1939)

Dec 2 Jane Appleton Pierce, American 1st lady (1853-57) and wife of Franklin Pierce, dies of tuberculosis at 57
Dec 13 Friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50
Dec 22 Michael Corcoran, Union brigadier general, dies at 36
Dec 24 William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist (Vanity Fair), dies at 52