Events in History
Events 101 - 200 of 252
- Jun 6 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana and Williamsport, Maryland
Battle of Interest
Jun 7 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Lousisiana, Jefferson Davis' home burnt

Jefferson Davis
Victory in Battle
Jun 10 Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Nathan Bedford Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds

Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Jun 13 Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia
- Jun 13 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon" in Christchurch, New Zealand
- Jun 13 Skirmish at Berryville, Virginia
- Jun 14 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
- Jun 15 Second Battle at Winchester Virginia, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualties
- Jun 17 Battle at Middleburg, Virginia
- Jun 17 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia
- Jun 17 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
- Jun 17 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
- Jun 18 After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
- Jun 19 Battle at Middleburg Virginia (100+ casualties)
- Jun 20 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
- Jun 20 Skirmish at Greencastle, Pennsylvania
- Jun 20 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state of the Union
- Jun 21 Battle at Upperville, Virginia, 389 causalities
- Jun 23 Tullahoma campaign, Tennessee
- Jun 24 Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
- Jun 25 US General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive
- Jun 27 Skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia
- Jun 29 Battle at Westminster, Maryland: Federal assault
Event of Interest
Jun 29 George Armstrong Custer, aged 23, appointed Union Brigadier General

George Armstrong Custer
- Jun 29 Confederate General Robert Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Jun 29 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
- Jun 30 Battles in Hanover, Pennsylvania: 80 casualties
- Jun 30 Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves
- Jun 30 Skirmish at Sporting Hill Pennsylvania
- Jul 1 -2] Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia
- Jul 1 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lee's northward advance halted
- Jul 1 Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3 cents per oz
- Jul 1 Slavery abolished in Suriname and Dutch Antilles
- Jul 2 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)
- Jul 2 R Morgan's: Burksville, Kentucky to Salineville, Ohio [->JUL 26]
- Jul 3 Battle of Donaldsonville, Louisiana
- Jul 3 Battle of Gettysburg, largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War
- Jul 4 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
- Jul 4 Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
Event of Interest
Jul 4 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg

Robert E. Lee
- Jul 4 Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
- Jul 4 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
- Jul 5 Battle of Jackson, Mississippi and Battle of Birdsong Ferry, Mississippi
- Jul 6 Battle of Williamsport, Maryland [-Jul 07]
- Jul 6 Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
- Jul 7 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
Event of Interest
Jul 7 Orders barring Jews from serving under US General Ulysses S. Grant are revoked

Ulysses S. Grant
- Jul 9 John Hunt Morgan's cavalry aid into Indiana [->JUL 13]
- Jul 9 Union troops enter Port Hudson
- Jul 10 Battle of Charleston, South Carolina (Morris Island) [->SEP 06]
- Jul 10 Battle of Jackson, Mississippi - captured by federals [->JUL 16]
- Jul 11 Battle at Green River, Kentucky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
- Jul 11 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
- Jul 12 In New Zealand, British forces invade Waikato, home of the Maori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the wars between Maori and Colonial British
- Jul 13 Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
- Jul 13 Battle of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana
- Jul 13 Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi (Harrisburg) [->JUL 15]
- Jul 13 Rebellion at Morgan's, Ohio [->JUL 26]
- Jul 14 Battle of Falling Waters, Maryland (Beaver Creek)
- Jul 14 Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
- Jul 15 President Davis orders service duty for confederate army
- Jul 16 Utrecht-Swells railway opens
- Jul 17 Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
- Jul 17 Māori forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials
- Jul 18 Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina - Second assault
- Jul 19 Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio
- Jul 23 Alexandra Park opens in North London
- Jul 24 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
- Jul 25 Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
- Jul 26 Battle of Salineville Ohio, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender
Event of Interest
Jul 30 President Abraham Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot

Abraham Lincoln
- Jul 30 Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah
- Aug 1 Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas; start of Chattanooga campaign
- Aug 1 Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
- Aug 3 Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY
- Aug 8 American Civil War: Tennessee's "military" Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves. Celebrated as a holiday by Tennessee African Americans (early 20th century)
- Aug 9 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek, Tennessee - Union troops attack Confederate scouts
- Aug 11 Cambodia becomes French protectorate
- Aug 12 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC)
- Aug 15 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
- Aug 15 The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
- Aug 16 Chickamauga campaign of the US Civil War begins in Georgia
- Aug 17 Federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC
- Aug 21 Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
- Aug 26 Battle of Rocky Gap, WV (White Sulphur Springs)
- Sep 1 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
- Sep 1 Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas
- Sep 1 Rail & ferry connection between San Francisco & Oakland inaugurated
- Sep 5 Bread revolt in Mobile, Alabama
- Sep 6 -7] After 59 day siege Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties)
- Sep 7 Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass
- Sep 8 -10] Federal troops reconquer the Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
- Sep 8 Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces
- Sep 8 Battle of Telford's Depot TN
- Sep 9 Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN
- Sep 16 Robert College of Istanbul, Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
- Sep 17 Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada
Battle of Interest
Sep 19 Battle of Chickamauga, GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union forces retreat after a couple days of fighting

Gordon Granger