1863 in History (Part 2)

Events in History

Events 101 - 200 of 252

• Jun 6 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana and Williamsport, Maryland

• Jun 7 Mexico City captured by French troops
• Jun 9 Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford)

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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

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