January 1864 in History

Events in History

Jan 14 General Sherman begins his march to the South

Jan 17 General James Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem, Tennessee

Jan 1 Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), born in Hoboken, New Jersey

Jan 1 Qi Baishi, Chinese painter famous for whimsical and playful watercolor paintings, born in Xiangtan, China (d. 1957)

Jan 10 George Washington Carver, African-American agricultural scientist (studied the peanut), born in Diamond Grove, Missouri [or Jul 12] (d. 1943)

Jan 10 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1931)
Jan 11 Thomas Dixon, US attorney/playwright (Flaming Sword)
Jan 13 Wilhelm K W Wien, German physicist (Nobel 1911)
Jan 15 Frances Benjamin Johnston, American photographer, born in Grafton West Virginia (d. 1952)
Jan 17 Lucien Herr, French intellectual and librarian (École Normale Supérieure), born in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin, France (d. 1926)
Jan 24 Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)
Jan 25 Julije Kempf, Croatian historian & writer, born in Požega, Croatia (d. 1934)
Jan 28 Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)

Jan 16 White chapel murder victim and possible Jack the Ripper victim Mary Ann Nichols (18) weds printer's machinist William Nichols

Jan 7 Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior, dies at 55
Jan 24 Stephen Gardner Champlin, brigadier general (Union), dies at about 36
Jan 27 Leo von Klenze, German neoclassical architect (Walhalla), dies at 59
Jan 28 Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
Jan 31 Hamilton Rowan Gamble, American judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies