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<h2 id="events">Events</h2> <h3>January</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/January_1/SI1VAKRT">January 1</a> – The United Kingdom annexes <a href="/facts/Lagos/sujDJmtW">Lagos</a> Island, in modern-day <a href="/facts/Nigeria/gbW17BX8">Nigeria</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_6/HkWYfxYS">January 6</a> – <a href="/facts/Second_French_intervention_in_Mexico/SgbeRw1b">French intervention in Mexico</a>: <a href="/facts/Second_French_Empire/5oS28M6v">French</a>, Spanish and British forces arrive in <a href="/facts/Veracruz/jt5rM0VK">Veracruz</a>, Mexico.</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_16/Ebfkf11A">January 16</a> – <a href="/facts/Hartley_Colliery_disaster/2LJswN1F">Hartley Colliery disaster</a> in north-east England: 204 men are trapped and die underground when the only shaft becomes blocked.</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_30/TznX28t8">January 30</a> – <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: The first U.S. <a href="/facts/Ironclad_warship/woAQJfj3">ironclad warship</a>, <a href="/facts/USS_Monitor/2UbU6ahj">USS <i>Monitor</i></a>, is launched in <a href="/facts/Brooklyn/UnUzxCFe">Brooklyn</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_31/PkENSBYc">January 31</a> – <a href="/facts/Alvan_Graham_Clark/z68T2rmK">Alvan Graham Clark</a> makes the first observation of <a href="/facts/Sirius/sHCkClse">Sirius</a> B, a <a href="/facts/White_dwarf/gIYlTtrC">white dwarf</a> star, through an eighteen-inch telescope at <a href="/facts/Northwestern_University/4dunJHBf">Northwestern University</a> in Illinois.</li></ul> <h3>February</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/February_1/PWaVIqWB">February 1</a> – American Civil War: <a href="/facts/Julia_Ward_Howe/P7NUbdy5">Julia Ward Howe</a>'s "<a href="/facts/Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic/vchCkVd7">Battle Hymn of the Republic</a>" is published for the first time in the <i><a href="/facts/Atlantic_Monthly/zVtl4Lcr">Atlantic Monthly</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_2/SWNobvWW">February 2</a> – The <a href="/facts/Dun_Mountain_Railway/g8goM5cB">first railway</a> is opened in <a href="/facts/New_Zealand/4mpSlJdg">New Zealand</a>, by the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company.</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/February_6/ETlh2Hb3">February 6</a> – General <a href="/facts/Ulysses_S._Grant/htCzhMtb">Ulysses S. Grant</a> gives the <a href="/facts/Union_Army/WaDC9c06">Union Army</a> its first victory of the war, by capturing <a href="/facts/Fort_Henry,_Tennessee/JdxmqFIx">Fort Henry, Tennessee</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_11/rUYRkVDa">February 11</a>–<a href="/facts/February_16/Bba5egQV">16</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Fort_Donelson/L6kAqYBN">Battle of Fort Donelson</a> – General Ulysses S. Grant attacks <a href="/facts/Fort_Donelson/PguIPHBD">Fort Donelson</a>, <a href="/facts/Tennessee/A3mLY9bu">Tennessee</a>, capturing it on the last day.</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_21/RsJKSKWh">February 21</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Valverde/IFqxIG2B">Battle of Valverde</a> – Confederate forces defeat Union troops near <a href="/facts/Fort_Craig/mNXgCDtD">Fort Craig</a> in <a href="/facts/New_Mexico_Territory/D19QTG3t">New Mexico Territory</a>:</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_22/hmqWo2Jy">February 22</a> – <a href="/facts/Jefferson_Davis/CK3RQyI0">Jefferson Davis</a> is officially inaugurated in <a href="/facts/Richmond,_Virginia/RPT22L8B">Richmond, Virginia</a>, to a six-year term as <a href="/facts/President_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America/60zEmaA6">president of the Confederate States</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <h3>March</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/March_6/XyDIJaSH">March 6</a> – An ammunition warehouse explosion in <a href="/facts/Ciudad_Serd%C3%A1n/mEdlbjkQ">San Andres Chalchicomula</a>, <a href="/facts/Mexico/IT5bwhdh">Mexico</a>, kills between 1,400 and 2,280 during the <a href="/facts/Second_French_intervention_in_Mexico/SgbeRw1b">Second French intervention in Mexico</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/March_7/GNEJyzVn">March 7</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Pea_Ridge/mGGSJKgc">Battle of Pea Ridge</a> – The Confederates are shut out of <a href="/facts/Missouri/wQ3VAb99">Missouri</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_8/b66u0pus">March 8</a> – Ironclad <a href="/facts/CSS_Virginia/jdyBjn6X">CSS <i>Virginia</i></a> (formerly USS <i>Merrimack</i>) is launched at <a href="/facts/Hampton_Roads/bEl4cN5H">Hampton Roads</a>, <a href="/facts/Virginia/g2kucGdn">Virginia</a>; the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads/oq6LdmMs">Battle of Hampton Roads</a> starts the same day.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/March_13/DRSdLnfv">March 13</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the <a href="/facts/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850/6kbrKdKd">Fugitive Slave Act of 1850</a> and setting the stage for the <a href="/facts/Emancipation_Proclamation/Ng2vXzgd">Emancipation Proclamation</a>.</li> <li>A <a href="/facts/Smallpox/cxNeetP4">smallpox</a> <a href="/facts/Epidemic/N7fM3HYd">epidemic</a> in <a href="/facts/San_Francisco/cb9l7hbC">San Francisco</a> spreads to <a href="/facts/British_Columbia/Ty3e3g1Q">British Columbia</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/March_17/KWQqx7wR">March 17</a> – The first <a href="/facts/Rail_transport_in_Finland/A7aRohDu">railway line</a> in <a href="/facts/Finland/G5Ak6T91">Finland</a>, between the cities of <a href="/facts/Helsinki/9za9r3jS">Helsinki</a> and <a href="/facts/H%C3%A4meenlinna/3Vbm32Pk">Hämeenlinna</a>, is officially opened.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/March_26/whb9JaUk">March 26</a>–<a href="/facts/March_28/4dtge7PT">28</a> – <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Glorieta_Pass/HAt3pHgX">Battle of Glorieta Pass</a> – In <a href="/facts/New_Mexico/wosJCGaW">New Mexico</a>, Union forces succeed in stopping the <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_Army/XlqneAzz">Confederate</a> invasion of <a href="/facts/New_Mexico_Territory/D19QTG3t">New Mexico Territory</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_31/6x7dDjky">March 31</a> – <a href="/facts/Victor_Hugo/fTAsw2A8">Victor Hugo</a>'s epic French historical novel <i><a href="/facts/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables/sKTzG5r8">Les Misérables</a></i> begins publication in Brussels.</li></ul> <h3>April</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/April_1/Tvc7dV2L">April 1</a> – <a href="/facts/Second_French_intervention_in_Mexico/SgbeRw1b">Second French intervention in Mexico</a>: The Spanish and the British ended their alliance with France.</li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/April_5/M78bdVSy">April 5</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Yorktown_(1862)/C9r11TsV">Battle of Yorktown</a> – The battle begins when <a href="/facts/Union_Army/WaDC9c06">Union Army</a> forces under General <a href="/facts/George_B._McClellan/EEJnBvgg">George B. McClellan</a> close in on the <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_of_America/jMSDM4q3">Confederate</a> capital of <a href="/facts/Richmond,_Virginia/RPT22L8B">Richmond, Virginia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_6/dHolSS8U">April 6</a>–<a href="/facts/April_7/RqhK5GY4">7</a>– <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Shiloh/dLtDCcC8">Battle of Shiloh</a> – The <a href="/facts/Union_Army/WaDC9c06">Union Army</a>, under General <a href="/facts/Ulysses_S._Grant/htCzhMtb">Ulysses S. Grant</a>, defeats the Confederates near <a href="/facts/Shiloh_National_Military_Park/opaREC7g">Shiloh, Tennessee</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_12/KAqu5oxB">April 12</a> – <a href="/facts/Great_Locomotive_Chase/VYLQlpEU">Great Locomotive Chase</a> (Andrews' Raid) – <a href="/facts/Union_(American_Civil_War)/KW6wJt7J">Union</a> volunteers steal Confederate steam railroad locomotive <i><a href="/facts/The_General_(locomotive)/gcxX2Imz">The General</a></i> (which will still exist in the 21st century) in an attempt to sabotage the rail network.* <a href="/facts/April_13/DI6WefJX">April 13</a> – The government of <a href="/facts/Vietnam/0ulfA8Eq">Vietnam</a> is forced to cede the territories of <a href="/facts/Bi%C3%AAn_H%C3%B2a_Province/6eMSxG62">Biên Hòa</a>, <a href="/facts/Gia_%C4%90%E1%BB%8Bnh_Province/1z3DPkrP">Gia Định</a> and <a href="/facts/%C4%90%E1%BB%8Bnh_T%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Dng_Province/F4vBcALE">Định Tường</a> to France.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/April_22/pWjeSjSg">April 22</a> – Global financial group <a href="/facts/UBS/9PQLzBq3">UBS</a> is founded in <a href="/facts/Switzerland/LcGuxeTe">Switzerland</a> as the <a href="/facts/Bank_in_Winterthur/87d92bKT">Bank in Winterthur</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/April_25/z7DGQtQz">April 25</a> – <a href="/facts/Capture_of_New_Orleans/FVLzW7M6">Capture of New Orleans</a> – Forces under Union Admiral <a href="/facts/David_Farragut/wDAJzSxJ">David Farragut</a> occupy the Confederate city of <a href="/facts/New_Orleans/IgCn61KH">New Orleans</a>, securing access to the <a href="/facts/Mississippi_River/RduarPzj">Mississippi River</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_26/ydYjk2W6">April 26</a> – <a href="/facts/Siege_of_Fort_Macon/Xu0YdLBS">Siege of Fort Macon</a> – The besieged <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_Army/XlqneAzz">Confederate</a> garrison at <a href="/facts/Fort_Macon/C4mDvC28">Fort Macon</a>, <a href="/facts/North_Carolina/VhKNTULI">North Carolina</a> surrenders.</li></ul></li></ul> <h3>May</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/May_1/eRu0VIw3">May 1</a>–<a href="/facts/November_1/1tRfIDru">November 1</a> – The <a href="/facts/1862_International_Exhibition/oyaykYwn">1862 International Exhibition</a> is held at <a href="/facts/South_Kensington/Kmao4VsX">South Kensington</a> in London; it is particularly noteworthy for an exhibit from Japan, influential in the development of <a href="/facts/Anglo-Japanese_style/cKnjseg5">Anglo-Japanese style</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/May_2/Jkr8fs6q">May 2</a> – The <a href="/facts/California_State_Normal_School/RAbmcaIk">California State Normal School</a> (later <a href="/facts/San_Jose_State_University/2WtScLRd">San Jose State University</a>) is created by an Act of the California legislature.</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_5/HTARRyUr">May 5</a> – <a href="/facts/Second_French_intervention_in_Mexico/SgbeRw1b">Second French intervention in Mexico</a>: <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Puebla/NC6RhwC7">Battle of Puebla</a> – Mexican General <a href="/facts/Ignacio_Zaragoza/MjMGtx28">Ignacio Zaragoza</a> defeats the French Army; commemorated each year as <i><a href="/facts/Cinco_de_Mayo/Fl3wqlWM">Cinco de Mayo</a></i> (Spanish for <i>Fifth of May</i>).</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_11/z19Kbh13">May 11</a> – <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: Ironclad <a href="/facts/CSS_Virginia/jdyBjn6X">CSS <i>Virginia</i></a> is scuttled in the <a href="/facts/James_River/v1b83Do9">James River</a> northwest of <a href="/facts/Norfolk,_Virginia/PPAclcuM">Norfolk, Virginia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_15/rRHwCQV6">May 15</a> – U.S. President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> signs a bill into law creating the U.S. Bureau of Agriculture (later renamed <a href="/facts/U.S._Department_of_Agriculture/3PK2rx7C">U.S. Department of Agriculture</a>).</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_20/cs2G4cma">May 20</a> – U.S. President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> signs the <a href="/facts/Homestead_Act_of_1862/1jpVyNz4">Homestead Act</a> into law.</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_24/56JbzrjQ">May 24</a> – <a href="/facts/Westminster_Bridge/AYweNXV4">Westminster Bridge</a> is opened across the Thames in London. This new iron bridge, designed by <a href="/facts/Thomas_Page_(engineer)/EuLw9b9l">Thomas Page</a>, replaces the previous stone one.</li></ul> <h3>June</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/June_1/lazqCtU0">June 1</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Fair_Oaks/QwE53LPy">Battle of Fair Oaks</a> – Both sides claim victory.</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_4/PfrgETqB">June 4</a> – <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_of_America/jMSDM4q3">Confederate</a> troops evacuate <a href="/facts/Fort_Pillow,_Tennessee/MI3muU1s">Fort Pillow</a> on the <a href="/facts/Mississippi_River/RduarPzj">Mississippi River</a>, leaving the way clear for Union Army troops to capture <a href="/facts/Memphis,_Tennessee/DwtMHq1I">Memphis, Tennessee</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/June_5/9GEpftBB">June 5</a> – <a href="/facts/Treaty_of_Saigon_(1862)/P2MMqz7t">Treaty of Saigon</a>: Emperor <a href="/facts/T%E1%BB%B1_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c/PCaAk06L">Tự Đức</a> of the <a href="/facts/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_dynasty/BUwd9crg">Nguyễn dynasty</a> in <a href="/facts/Vietnam/0ulfA8Eq">Vietnam</a> cedes <a href="/facts/Saigon/TyQxqTmQ">Saigon</a>, <a href="/facts/C%C3%B4n_S%C6%A1n_Island/1C80U9n5">Côn Sơn Island</a> and three southern provinces of what is to become known as <a href="/facts/Cochinchina/wU2wPk3H">Cochinchina</a> (<a href="/facts/Bi%C3%AAn_H%C3%B2a_Province/6eMSxG62">Biên Hòa</a>, <a href="/facts/Gia_%C4%90%E1%BB%8Bnh_Province/1z3DPkrP">Gia Định</a> and Định Tường) to become part of the <a href="/facts/French_colonial_empire/IRauBDs1">French colonial empire</a>. Guerilla leader <a href="/facts/Tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%8Bnh/rHT8jgCy">Trương Định</a> refuses to recognize the treaty.</li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/June_6/n68FjLjI">June 6</a> – <a href="/facts/First_Battle_of_Memphis/hF6KaJTW">First Battle of Memphis</a> – Union Army troops capture <a href="/facts/Memphis,_Tennessee/DwtMHq1I">Memphis, Tennessee</a>, from the <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_of_America/jMSDM4q3">Confederate States</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_8/UR4fHNx5">June 8</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Cross_Keys/y7fNU2y4">Battle of Cross Keys</a> – Confederate troops under General <a href="/facts/Stonewall_Jackson/EM2lYk8f">Stonewall Jackson</a> save the <a href="/facts/Army_of_Northern_Virginia/UULyjGEp">Army of Northern Virginia</a> from a Union Army attack on the James Peninsula that is led by General <a href="/facts/George_B._McClellan/EEJnBvgg">George B. McClellan</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/June_12/TA9W2nuf">June 12</a> – John Winter Robinson, the <a href="/facts/Secretary_of_State_of_Kansas/gIvn1SSP">Secretary of State of Kansas</a>, is convicted and removed from office as the result of a <a href="/facts/Bond_(finance)/qlmpLj0k">bond</a> scandal, becoming the first state executive official to be <a href="/facts/Impeachment_in_the_United_States/6VrS0s6u">impeached</a> and removed from office in American history.</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_26/KnqlWh62">June 26</a> – <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Mechanicsville/YoXgnFsV">Battle of Mechanicsville</a> – Confederate General <a href="/facts/Robert_E._Lee/6ooHzprY">Robert E. Lee</a> defeats the troops of General <a href="/facts/George_B._McClellan/EEJnBvgg">George B. McClellan</a> in the first of the <a href="/facts/Seven_Days_Battles/eKNWQ6wy">Seven Days Battles</a>.</li></ul> <h3>July</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/July_1/KU7lnN6l">July 1</a> <ul><li>The Bureau of Internal Revenue, the forerunner of the <a href="/facts/Internal_Revenue_Service/GBdRoslU">Internal Revenue Service</a>, is established in the United States.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Princess_Alice_of_the_United_Kingdom/7zRVeRJ1">Princess Alice</a>, the second daughter of <a href="/facts/Queen_Victoria/CgxSlQ4g">Queen Victoria</a>, marries <a href="/facts/Louis_IV,_Grand_Duke_of_Hesse/CfRYCnSh">Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine</a>.</li> <li>U.S. President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> signs into law the <a href="/facts/Pacific_Railroad_Acts/oxYK51HA">Pacific Railroad Acts</a>, authorizing construction of the <a href="/facts/First_Transcontinental_Railroad/A4H1losM">First Transcontinental Railroad</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Russian_State_Library/QoDmpLWB">Russian State Library</a> is founded, as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/July_2/09eQoyvE">July 2</a> – U.S. President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> signs the <a href="/facts/Morrill_Land-Grant_Act/9xp9DnEN">Morrill Land-Grant Act</a> into law, creating a system of <a href="/facts/Land-grant_college/hCRoj5g0">land-grant colleges</a>, to teach agricultural and mechanical sciences across the United States.</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_4/a37pJw4h">July 4</a> – Charles Dodgson (better known as <a href="/facts/Lewis_Carroll/UnDExrlu">Lewis Carroll</a>) extemporises the story that becomes <i><a href="/facts/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland/xIcypuRd">Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</a></i>, for ten-year-old <a href="/facts/Alice_Liddell/8p8YJSvl">Alice Liddell</a> and her sisters, on a rowboat trip on <a href="/facts/The_Isis/bbEmo7Sn">The Isis</a> from <a href="/facts/Oxford/kHvWDTXW">Oxford</a> to <a href="/facts/Godstow/Kq3b5qMu">Godstow</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>:</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_16/Db20tCPx">July 16</a> – <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <a href="/facts/David_Farragut/wDAJzSxJ">David Farragut</a> becomes the first <a href="/facts/Rear_admiral/3f3BNjuy">rear admiral</a> in the <a href="/facts/U.S._Navy/xYK0fUou">U.S. Navy</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_18/MUuDmATT">July 18</a> – <a href="/facts/Dent_Blanche/EH6cdJqb">Dent Blanche</a>, one of the highest summits in the Alps, is first ascended.</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_23/pQFpKSIn">July 23</a> – <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <a href="/facts/Henry_Halleck/18AJaKxd">Henry Halleck</a> takes command of the <a href="/facts/Union_Army/WaDC9c06">Union Army</a>.</li></ul> <h3>August</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/August_5/0HFogU69">August 5</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Baton_Rouge_(1862)/L8cbGLDT">Battle of Baton Rouge</a> – Along the <a href="/facts/Mississippi_River/RduarPzj">Mississippi River</a> near <a href="/facts/Baton_Rouge,_Louisiana/21SGK7VC">Baton Rouge, Louisiana</a>, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_6/wz7oRcfk">August 6</a> – Confederate ironclad <a href="/facts/CSS_Arkansas/6N5oVgxT">CSS <i>Arkansas</i></a> is scuttled on the <a href="/facts/Mississippi_River/RduarPzj">Mississippi River</a> after suffering damage in a battle with <a href="/facts/USS_Essex_(1856)/1jbd660D">USS <i>Essex</i></a>, near <a href="/facts/Baton_Rouge,_Louisiana/21SGK7VC">Baton Rouge, Louisiana</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_9/tAz2L8EU">August 9</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Cedar_Mountain/T3SMzlfo">Battle of Cedar Mountain</a> – Confederate General <a href="/facts/Stonewall_Jackson/EM2lYk8f">Stonewall Jackson</a> narrowly defeats Union forces under General <a href="/facts/John_Pope_(military_officer)/bwgNMlLE">John Pope</a> at Cedar Mountain, Virginia.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/August_14/9uA40VzY">August 14</a> – U.S. President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> meets with a group of prominent African-Americans, the first time an American President has done so. He suggests that Black people should migrate to Africa or to Central America, but this advice is rejected.</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_17/yVrQpPk6">August 17</a> – The <a href="/facts/Dakota_War_of_1862/Jm91E3zN">Dakota War of 1862</a> begins in <a href="/facts/Minnesota/ncgVuC4Q">Minnesota</a>, as Dakota Sioux attack white settlements along the <a href="/facts/Minnesota_River/WGWdnRtG">Minnesota River</a>. They are overwhelmed by the U.S. Army six weeks later.</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_19/xAVwH4El">August 19</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Dakota_War_of_1862/Jm91E3zN">Dakota War of 1862</a>: During an uprising in <a href="/facts/Minnesota/ncgVuC4Q">Minnesota</a>, Dakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended <a href="/facts/Fort_Ridgely/7PrjFzot">Fort Ridgely</a> and instead turn to the settlement of <a href="/facts/New_Ulm,_Minnesota/Mm1Dr3el">New Ulm</a>, killing white settlers along the way.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Horace_Greeley/4STdK1AM">Horace Greeley</a> publishes an editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty Millions", in the <i>New York Tribune</i>, in which he urges U.S. President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> to make abolition of slavery an official aim of the Union war effort.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/August_21/o8jQvlp0">August 21</a> – The <a href="/facts/Stadtpark,_Vienna/d6TGcG1G">Vienna Stadtpark</a> opens its gates.</li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/August_28/dmEJKetF">August 28</a>–<a href="/facts/August_30/MwxqAhmK">30</a> – <a href="/facts/Second_Battle_of_Bull_Run/QDn6ftms">Second Battle of Bull Run</a> – Confederate forces inflict a crushing defeat on Union General John Pope.</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_29/sI8bjYAM">August 29</a>–<a href="/facts/August_30/MwxqAhmK">30</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Richmond/AGUtCEmJ">Battle of Richmond</a>, Kentucky – Confederate forces, led by General <a href="/facts/Edmund_Kirby_Smith/38Cpkock">Edmund Kirby Smith</a>, inflict a crushing defeat on Union General <a href="/facts/William_%22Bull%22_Nelson/gSMNLsRD">William "Bull" Nelson</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <h3>September</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/September_1/Masvqhar">September 1</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Chantilly/4IC8zqcG">Battle of Chantilly</a> – Confederate General <a href="/facts/Robert_E._Lee/6ooHzprY">Robert E. Lee</a> leads his forces in an attack on retreating Union troops in <a href="/facts/Chantilly,_Virginia/rVuprXAJ">Chantilly, Virginia</a>, driving them away.</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_2/3vvRGBSn">September 2</a> – U.S. President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> restores Union General <a href="/facts/George_B._McClellan/EEJnBvgg">George B. McClellan</a> to full command, after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the <a href="/facts/Second_Battle_of_Bull_Run/QDn6ftms">Second Battle of Bull Run</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_5/PSE8BQIk">September 5</a> – In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General <a href="/facts/Robert_E._Lee/6ooHzprY">Robert E. Lee</a> leads 55,000 men of the <a href="/facts/Army_of_Northern_Virginia/UULyjGEp">Army of Northern Virginia</a> across the <a href="/facts/Potomac_River/a6pTbEn0">Potomac River</a> at <a href="/facts/White%27s_Ford/4LEJ9KLM">White's Ford</a> near <a href="/facts/Leesburg,_Virginia/N2Pa2jUy">Leesburg, Virginia</a>, into <a href="/facts/Maryland/tVy9fC1n">Maryland</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/September_10/1EqUc6E2">September 10</a> – <a href="/facts/Francisco_Solano_L%C3%B3pez/P5uw0S47">Francisco Solano López</a> is appointed second <a href="/facts/President_of_Paraguay/h3HKxIH3">President of Paraguay</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>:</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_17/1rhf5uML">September 17</a> – <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Antietam/Qp9F3LTz">Battle of Antietam</a>: Union forces strategically defeat Confederate troops at <a href="/facts/Sharpsburg,_Maryland/rUoL9BWe">Sharpsburg, Maryland</a>, in the bloodiest day in U.S. history, with over 22,000 casualties.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Allegheny_Arsenal/vwwBnKmS">Allegheny Arsenal</a> explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war, with 78 workers – mostly young women – being killed.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/September_19/KurgveR6">September 19</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Iuka/pm2tl0Xf">Battle of Iuka</a> – Union troops under Major General <a href="/facts/William_Rosecrans/9MSH6jCE">William Rosecrans</a> defeat a Confederate force commanded by Major General <a href="/facts/Sterling_Price/9LeNhTlx">Sterling Price</a> at <a href="/facts/Iuka,_Mississippi/H0XNXsV1">Iuka, Mississippi</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_22/YtClwxAE">September 22</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Otto_von_Bismarck/4EGd7TCI">Otto von Bismarck</a> becomes <a href="/facts/Minister_President_of_Prussia/MC19s8ME">Minister President of Prussia</a>, following refusal by the country's <a href="/facts/Landtag/MUxX7gP3">Landtag</a> to accept the military budget.</li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: The preliminary announcement of the <a href="/facts/Emancipation_Proclamation/Ng2vXzgd">Emancipation Proclamation</a> is made by U.S. President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a>: From January 1, 1863, slaves in the Confederate States will be considered free.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/September_26/s1l3wYPa">September 26</a> – <a href="/facts/Johann_II,_Prince_of_Liechtenstein/36Tje06M">Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein</a> signs into law the <a href="/facts/1862_Constitution_of_Liechtenstein/GfxzBtcl">1862 Constitution of Liechtenstein</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_29/xyx8ArD3">September 29</a> – New Prussian prime minister <a href="/facts/Otto_von_Bismarck/4EGd7TCI">Otto von Bismarck</a> delivers his <i><a href="/facts/Blood_and_Iron_(speech)/oatW2U8q">Blood and Iron (Blut und Eisen)</a></i> speech to the Prussian Landtag.</li></ul> <h3>October</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/October_8/8L9N9dls">October 8</a> – <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Perryville/havVaNDg">Battle of Perryville</a> – <a href="/facts/Union_Army/WaDC9c06">Union Army</a> forces under General <a href="/facts/Don_Carlos_Buell/LHCRykIU">Don Carlos Buell</a> halt the <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_Army/XlqneAzz">Confederate</a> invasion of <a href="/facts/Kentucky/DaTW05Rt">Kentucky</a> by defeating troops led by General <a href="/facts/Braxton_Bragg/Mjk4yDgA">Braxton Bragg</a> at <a href="/facts/Perryville,_Kentucky/DYmBIjeM">Perryville, Kentucky</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_9/HbzR2evC">October 9</a> – The <a href="/facts/Transvaal_Civil_War/CRphGkXr">Transvaal Civil War</a> breaks out, following <a href="/facts/Stephanus_Schoeman/nfjJ89Tc">Stephanus Schoeman</a>'s unconstitutional ousting of the acting <a href="/facts/State_President_of_the_South_African_Republic/lTuo1RMW">President of the Executive Council of the South African Republic</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/October_11/poTT45D9">October 11</a> – <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: In the aftermath of the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Antietam/Qp9F3LTz">Battle of Antietam</a>, <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_Army/XlqneAzz">Confederate</a> General <a href="/facts/J._E._B._Stuart/mN15wsaa">J. E. B. Stuart</a> and his men loot <a href="/facts/Chambersburg,_Pennsylvania/TAnH2yBo">Chambersburg, Pennsylvania</a>, during a <a href="/facts/Chambersburg_Raid/lEm87kto">raid into the North</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_23/s5BlQbcW">October 23</a> – <a href="/facts/Otto_of_Greece/M4wYVFnj">Otto</a> is deposed as <a href="/facts/King_of_Greece/dTmsKLcA">King of Greece</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_24/UqvFhsjm">October 24</a> – <a href="/facts/Ram%C3%B3n_Castilla/qPrpqcNS">Ramón Castilla</a> loses the Presidency of <a href="/facts/Peru/dBt7XrYD">Peru</a> for a second time.</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_25/sRbwCcIf">October 25</a> – In the <a href="/facts/Granadine_Confederation/AXAyb6Qq">Granadine Confederation</a> (modern-day <a href="/facts/Colombia/nl7r8Q2u">Colombia</a>), rebel troops of the southern states defeat government forces.</li></ul> <h3>November</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/November_4/c1quLHEN">November 4</a> – <a href="/facts/Richard_Jordan_Gatling/SNd2NHNa">Richard Jordan Gatling</a> patents the <a href="/facts/Gatling_gun/JD7Shf7S">Gatling gun</a> in the United States.</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_5/R6zpvmwa">November 5</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> removes <a href="/facts/George_B._McClellan/EEJnBvgg">George B. McClellan</a> as commander of the <a href="/facts/Union_Army/WaDC9c06">Union Army</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Indian_Wars/SfKx2Rtn">American Indian Wars</a>: In <a href="/facts/Minnesota/ncgVuC4Q">Minnesota</a>, more than 300 Santee <a href="/facts/Sioux/NoM3bc62">Sioux</a> are found guilty of <a href="/facts/Rape/7RLDwHCN">rape</a> and murder of white settlers, and are sentenced to hang.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/November_14/BWGYEkQS">November 14</a> – President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> approves the plan by General <a href="/facts/Ambrose_Burnside/r8DsHcgP">Ambrose Burnside</a> to capture the <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_of_America/jMSDM4q3">Confederate</a> <a href="/facts/Capital_city/p06rGdJC">capital city</a> of <a href="/facts/Richmond,_Virginia/RPT22L8B">Richmond, Virginia</a>. This plan leads to a disastrous Union defeat at the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Fredericksburg/moG6o9gH">Battle of Fredericksburg</a> on <a href="/facts/December_13/wHq3rj4U">December 13</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_28/S5bg5uEC">November 28</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Cane_Hill/NPsQbRkH">Battle of Cane Hill</a> – <a href="/facts/Union_Army/WaDC9c06">Union Army</a> troops, led by General John Blunt, push back <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_Army/XlqneAzz">Confederate troops</a>, commanded by General <a href="/facts/John_Marmaduke/HyeXHEWJ">John Marmaduke</a>, into the northwestern <a href="/facts/Boston_Mountains/hM8dPC5a">Boston Mountains</a> of <a href="/facts/Arkansas/Qun124UP">Arkansas</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_28/S5bg5uEC">November 28</a> – <ul><li><a href="/facts/Notts_County_F.C./s7VacgrN">Notts County F.C.</a> is founded in <a href="/facts/Nottingham/7NmKsSUg">Nottingham</a>, England, making it (by the 21st century) the world's oldest professional <a href="/facts/Association_football/yttjeD0D">Association football</a> team.</li></ul></li></ul> <h3>December</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/December_1/2AJh8lYG">December 1</a> – In his <a href="/facts/State_of_the_Union_address/Nu68EMhy">State of the Union address</a>, President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery, as he ordered ten weeks earlier in his <a href="/facts/Emancipation_Proclamation/Ng2vXzgd">Emancipation Proclamation</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_2/e3FzUoxF">December 2</a> – The first <a href="/facts/United_States_Navy/xYK0fUou">United States Navy</a> <a href="/facts/Hospital_ship/ICvc3WGR">hospital ships</a> enter service.</li> <li><a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li><a href="/facts/December_12/wo5rv56W">December 12</a> – <a href="/facts/Yazoo_Pass_Expedition/gvRYPwz2">Yazoo Pass Expedition</a> – Union <a href="/facts/Ironclad/woAQJfj3">ironclad</a> <a href="/facts/Gunboat/J8q4Iglu">gunboat</a> <a href="/facts/USS_Cairo/dwMQtX4K">USS <i>Cairo</i></a> is sunk by a remotely-detonated "torpedo" (<a href="/facts/Naval_mine/jo9uVY9U">naval mine</a>) while clearing mines from the <a href="/facts/Yazoo_River/TWlRfDL1">Yazoo River</a>, the first armored ship sunk by mine.</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_13/wHq3rj4U">December 13</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Fredericksburg/moG6o9gH">Battle of Fredericksburg</a> – The <a href="/facts/Union_Army/WaDC9c06">Union Army</a> suffers massive casualties and abandons its attempts to capture the Confederate <a href="/facts/Capital_city/p06rGdJC">capital city</a> of <a href="/facts/Richmond,_Virginia/RPT22L8B">Richmond, Virginia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_17/XUw2Jewn">December 17</a> – <i><a href="/facts/General_Order_No._11_(1862)/RQwHguSf">General Order No. 11</a></i>, which expels all Jews from his military district, is issued by General <a href="/facts/Ulysses_S._Grant/htCzhMtb">Ulysses S. Grant</a>. This order is rescinded just a few weeks later.</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_26/lt6JQINt">December 26</a>–<a href="/facts/December_29/WUbU0yzu">29</a> – <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Chickasaw_Bayou/jLkJydzu">Battle of Chickasaw Bayou</a> – Another victory for the <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_Army/XlqneAzz">Confederate Army</a>, outnumbered two to one, results in six times as many Union casualties, defeating several assaults commanded by Union general <a href="/facts/William_T._Sherman/cDbr9QS4">William T. Sherman</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_30/czU1eCdo">December 30</a> – <a href="/facts/USS_Monitor/2UbU6ahj">USS <i>Monitor</i></a> sinks in a storm in the Atlantic, off <a href="/facts/Cape_Hatteras,_North_Carolina/YpSC9h1o">Cape Hatteras, North Carolina</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_31/YBW5G3CP">December 31</a> – <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>: <ul><li>U.S. President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> signs an act that admits <a href="/facts/West_Virginia/USP8LtCq">West Virginia</a> to the Union, thus dividing <a href="/facts/Virginia/g2kucGdn">Virginia</a> into two.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Stones_River/uP2KuU7a">Battle of Stones River</a> opens near <a href="/facts/Murfreesboro,_Tennessee/hpCvAlIp">Murfreesboro, Tennessee</a>.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/December/8WHgKn1S">December</a> – Peruvian slave raiders land on <a href="/facts/Easter_Island/JqNucnh7">Easter Island</a>, beginning a decade of the <a href="/facts/Easter_Island/JqNucnh7">destruction of the society and population</a> on the island.</li></ul> <h3>Date unknown</h3> <ul><li>Anglo-Indian teacher <a href="/facts/Anna_Leonowens/AN2S6gPe">Anna Leonowens</a> accepts an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, <a href="/facts/Tan_Kim_Ching/YuhPtjDf">Tan Kim Ching</a>, to teach the wives and children of <a href="/facts/Mongkut/DXyPKM1R">Mongkut</a>, the King of Siam.</li> <li>Donald McIntyre builds a settlement in northwest <a href="/facts/Queensland/lXBlIeY3">Queensland</a> (Australia) which becomes the town of <a href="/facts/Julia_Creek,_Queensland/2quAkUYt">Julia Creek</a> (named after his niece).</li> <li>Iwai Fumisuke Shoten (岩井文助商店), predecessor of <a href="/facts/Japan/U5mz0SRT">Japanese</a> <a href="/facts/Conglomerate_(company)/YBbUVg1d">conglomerate</a> <a href="/facts/Sojitz/D1WPhfDu">Sojitz</a>, is founded in <a href="/facts/Osaka/sbS1N7sl">Osaka</a>.</li> <li>Japanese <a href="/facts/Construction/58eqDhy9">construction</a> company Satō Kōgyō is founded in <a href="/facts/Toyama_(city)/rVorV2Hb">Toyama</a> as Satō-gumi.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <h3>January–March</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/January_9/06hhKL3W">January 9</a> – <a href="/facts/Carrie_Clark_Ward/DUetcRQa">Carrie Clark Ward</a>, American silent film actress (d. <a href="/facts/1926/03cK1qtm">1926</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_14/S2XKKdjo">January 14</a> – <a href="/facts/Carrie_Derick/xrWDnd8y">Carrie Derick</a>, Canadian botanist and geneticist (d. <a href="/facts/1941/MxJwh6rk">1941</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_15/rSvlBENa">January 15</a> – <a href="/facts/Loie_Fuller/Ms5RvDQE">Loie Fuller</a>, American dancer (d. <a href="/facts/1928/GY8IzJk3">1928</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_23/2Hhq7rW0">January 23</a> – <a href="/facts/David_Hilbert/1vhlHn4b">David Hilbert</a>, German mathematician (d. <a href="/facts/1943/3DdRsjrn">1943</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_24/rgy52alf">January 24</a> – <a href="/facts/Edith_Wharton/QhFecz8j">Edith Wharton</a>, American fiction writer (d. <a href="/facts/1937/BUX8Hwbf">1937</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_29/BcCrtMkk">January 29</a> – <a href="/facts/Frederick_Delius/8wCBcxvB">Frederick Delius</a>, English composer (d. <a href="/facts/1934/tayEAFpw">1934</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_30/TznX28t8">January 30</a> – <a href="/facts/Walter_Damrosch/tI9SHFzh">Walter Damrosch</a>, German-born American orchestral conductor (d. <a href="/facts/1950/mxu5oLbY">1950</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_3/5zp8ahYw">February 3</a> – <a href="/facts/James_Clark_McReynolds/5jHaxjAL">James Clark McReynolds</a>, <a href="/facts/Associate_Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States/K88lDBQu">Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1946/BnTf4qUs">1946</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_4/6MnFnWYE">February 4</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Hjalmar_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld/yuFUf9D1">Hjalmar Hammarskjöld</a>, 13th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. <a href="/facts/1953/9mQVlynh">1953</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/George_Ernest_Morrison/7NNvrpWR">George Ernest Morrison</a>, Australian adventurer, journalist (d. <a href="/facts/1920/cMv9MvzA">1920</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/February_7/CQCdJqUw">February 7</a> – <a href="/facts/Bernard_Maybeck/9ENWXD7G">Bernard Maybeck</a>, American Arts and Crafts architect (d. <a href="/facts/1957/6Aeq0xSI">1957</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_8/YDx5fjny">February 8</a> – <a href="/facts/Ferdinand_Ferber/jSApq3PK">Ferdinand Ferber</a>, French Army captain, aviation pioneer (d. <a href="/facts/1909/EYEK0tGS">1909</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_17/B2p5gwTb">February 17</a> – <a href="/facts/Edward_German/kM4td4VB">Edward German</a>, English composer (d. <a href="/facts/1936/VsNHIP3x">1936</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_4/BsxaJumF">March 4</a> – <a href="/facts/Robert_Emden/hkueunQ8">Robert Emden</a>, Swiss astrophysicist, meteorologist (d. <a href="/facts/1940/AMQgqkYN">1940</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_8/b66u0pus">March 8</a> – <a href="/facts/George_Frederick_Phillips/tkItgQh9">George Frederick Phillips</a>, Canadian-born American military hero (d. <a href="/facts/1904/pYw7uoS4">1904</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_13/DRSdLnfv">March 13</a> – <a href="/facts/Jane_Delano/ghmamcby">Jane Delano</a>, American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service (d. <a href="/facts/1919/5R5RKF5E">1919</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_14/psCU0ha1">March 14</a> – <a href="/facts/Vilhelm_Bjerknes/I1zLCWwv">Vilhelm Bjerknes</a>, Norwegian physicist, meteorologist (d. <a href="/facts/1951/o7KS23e8">1951</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_25/D4N2hXpp">March 25</a> – <a href="/facts/George_Sutherland/uSlNp15e">George Sutherland</a>, American politician, <a href="/facts/Associate_Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States/K88lDBQu">Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1942/Hv8rLssG">1942</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_28/4dtge7PT">March 28</a> – <a href="/facts/Aristide_Briand/peyIs7LB">Aristide Briand</a>, French politician, winner of the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Peace_Prize/2wVhmLrX">Nobel Peace Prize</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1932/XlUMqV5p">1932</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_29/LJzA7vDp">March 29</a> – <a href="/facts/Adolfo_M%C3%BCller-Ury/Q41dxBE0">Adolfo Müller-Ury</a>, Swiss-born American painter (d. 1947)</li></ul> <h3>April–June</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/April_2/dUDfA8dd">April 2</a> – <a href="/facts/Nicholas_Murray_Butler/DAE0uB6a">Nicholas Murray Butler</a>, American president of <a href="/facts/Columbia_University/Hlf1gw53">Columbia University</a>, winner of the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Peace_Prize/2wVhmLrX">Nobel Peace Prize</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1947/Wy1AYbDz">1947</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_6/dHolSS8U">April 6</a> – <a href="/facts/Georges_Darien/E5BFbBHE">Georges Darien</a>, French writer (d. <a href="/facts/1921/7abkb6mF">1921</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_11/BEmEY0CG">April 11</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Charles_Evans_Hughes/Ml5Doecw">Charles Evans Hughes</a>, American jurist, politician, <a href="/facts/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States/nok98zla">Chief Justice of the United States</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1948/8PpY1FY5">1948</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Lurana_W._Sheldon/hnXKJsJI">Lurana W. Sheldon</a>, American author and editor (d. <a href="/facts/1945/w7Rc9CUl">1945</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/April_26/ydYjk2W6">April 26</a> – <a href="/facts/Edmund_C._Tarbell/Cll8WqC8">Edmund C. Tarbell</a>, American Impressionist painter (d. <a href="/facts/1938/auSpdqeH">1938</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_27/utqE8bxC">April 27</a> – <a href="/facts/Rudolph_Schildkraut/ye09Hxzz">Rudolph Schildkraut</a>, Ottoman-born Austrian actor (d. <a href="/facts/1930/CrbUfsAD">1930</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_15/rRHwCQV6">May 15</a> – <a href="/facts/Arthur_Schnitzler/AMwR7RjQ">Arthur Schnitzler</a>, Austrian dramatist, narrator (d. <a href="/facts/1931/JK9FEYxa">1931</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_27/TWP3cqDQ">May 27</a> – <a href="/facts/John_Kendrick_Bangs/Y5RMud8p">John Kendrick Bangs</a>, American author, satirist (d. <a href="/facts/1922/AFrJQ34X">1922</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_5/9GEpftBB">June 5</a> – <a href="/facts/Allvar_Gullstrand/3j8zCb6o">Allvar Gullstrand</a>, Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine/rlnpJX84">Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1930/CrbUfsAD">1930</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_7/65d6SCTG">June 7</a> – <a href="/facts/Philipp_Lenard/e2MYF17W">Philipp Lenard</a>, Hungarian–German physicist, winner of the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1947/Wy1AYbDz">1947</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_10/nlhwysHq">June 10</a> – <a href="/facts/John_de_Robeck/tbH5QjaV">John de Robeck</a>, British admiral (d. <a href="/facts/1928/GY8IzJk3">1928</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_21/fsEYpDER">June 21</a> – <a href="/facts/Damrong_Rajanubhab/tUVcYv7E">Damrong Rajanubhab</a>, Thai prince, historian (d. <a href="/facts/1943/3DdRsjrn">1943</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_27/pqjuMm4M">June 27</a> – <a href="/facts/May_Irwin/6T1XtMul">May Irwin</a>, Canadian actress, singer (d. <a href="/facts/1938/auSpdqeH">1938</a>)</li></ul> <h3>July–September</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/July_2/09eQoyvE">July 2</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/William_Henry_Bragg/R2b3rxNx">William Henry Bragg</a>, English physicist, <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize</a> laureate (d. <a href="/facts/1942/Hv8rLssG">1942</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Christopher_Cradock/rNvYXBEE">Christopher Cradock</a>, British admiral (d. <a href="/facts/1914/VNGWH7j3">1914</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/July_8/tqgp1Lpy">July 8</a> – <a href="/facts/Josephine_White_Bates/z4N1jr3t">Josephine White Bates</a>, Canadian-born American author (d. <a href="/facts/1934/tayEAFpw">1934</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_14/8aa0mIXE">July 14</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Florence_Bascom/bfddBgXK">Florence Bascom</a>, American geologist and educator (d. <a href="/facts/1945/w7Rc9CUl">1945</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Gustav_Klimt/0T3N73Pp">Gustav Klimt</a>, Austrian artist (d. <a href="/facts/1918/eIGlxNIx">1918</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/July_15/mPfeUQQy">July 15</a> – <a href="/facts/Ernest_Troubridge/3JJPdFaa">Ernest Troubridge</a>, British admiral (d. <a href="/facts/1926/03cK1qtm">1926</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_16/Db20tCPx">July 16</a> – <a href="/facts/Ida_B._Wells/XcprJDzU">Ida B. Wells</a>, American journalist, suffragist, and anti-lynching crusader (d. <a href="/facts/1931/JK9FEYxa">1931</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_24/lMUqGvj6">July 24</a> – <a href="/facts/James_Percy_FitzPatrick/gaNT5I6T">Percy FitzPatrick</a>, South African author, politician and mining financier (d. <a href="/facts/1931/JK9FEYxa">1931</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_5/0HFogU69">August 5</a> – <a href="/facts/Joseph_Merrick/GV455Iql">Joseph Merrick</a> (the <i>Elephant Man</i>), English sufferer from deformities (d. <a href="/facts/1890/v0MY7EwC">1890</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_16/W7hpMxEU">August 16</a> – <a href="/facts/Amos_Alonzo_Stagg/fml32vq0">Amos Alonzo Stagg</a>, American football player, coach (d. <a href="/facts/1965/RlpYNuG1">1965</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_21/o8jQvlp0">August 21</a> – <a href="/facts/Emilio_Salgari/sscAHqFS">Emilio Salgari</a>, Italian writer (d. <a href="/facts/1911/f6cCDfr8">1911</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_22/h6zS4KCm">August 22</a> – <a href="/facts/Claude_Debussy/m60RdNpr">Claude Debussy</a>, French composer (d. <a href="/facts/1918/eIGlxNIx">1918</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_24/mVIkGKN1">August 24</a> – <a href="/facts/Zonia_Baber/T945GoIs">Zonia Baber</a>, American geographer and geologist (d. <a href="/facts/1956/s8lywmqd">1956</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_26/7FX0ghhn">August 26</a> – <a href="/facts/Herbert_Booth/pGhwTJXM">Herbert Booth</a>, English-born Salvationist, third son of <a href="/facts/William_Booth/V4Rnl7eY">William</a> and <a href="/facts/Catherine_Booth/AupW4NY5">Catherine Booth</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1926/03cK1qtm">1926</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_29/sI8bjYAM">August 29</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Andrew_Fisher/TrRTRMnm">Andrew Fisher</a>, 5th <a href="/facts/Prime_Minister_of_Australia/yzh0N8oH">Prime Minister of Australia</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1928/GY8IzJk3">1928</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Maurice_Maeterlinck/LwT34QgG">Maurice Maeterlinck</a>, Belgian writer, <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature/wWVXbIbp">Nobel Prize in Literature</a> laureate (d. <a href="/facts/1949/25neuEUm">1949</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/September_7/ylKjs7QG">September 7</a> – <a href="/facts/Edgar_Speyer/hetTHluA">Edgar Speyer</a>, American-born international financier and philanthropist (d. <a href="/facts/1932/XlUMqV5p">1932</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_11/EpcDsrjn">September 11</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Julian_Byng,_1st_Viscount_Byng_of_Vimy/9b50TyId">Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy</a>, British general, 12th <a href="/facts/Governor_General_of_Canada/jtxQLBDr">Governor General of Canada</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1935/cgLN91AJ">1935</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Hawley_Harvey_Crippen/77EATBMy">Hawley Harvey Crippen</a>, American-born medical practitioner, uxoricide (hanged <a href="/facts/1910/Kovl3GRp">1910</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/O._Henry/wkByc94n">O. Henry</a>, born William Sydney Porter, American short-story writer (d. <a href="/facts/1910/Kovl3GRp">1910</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/September_12/3qnbl2ow">September 12</a> – <a href="/facts/Carl_Eytel/mKonys58">Carl Eytel</a>, German-American artist working in <a href="/facts/Palm_Springs,_California/5oBSWMtm">Palm Springs, California</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1925_in_art/RYgIhrN1">1925</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_19/KurgveR6">September 19</a> – <a href="/facts/Arvid_Lindman/GUScdgpt">Arvid Lindman</a>, Swedish admiral, industrialist, and politician, 12th <a href="/facts/Prime_Minister_of_Sweden/cELLLCUv">Prime Minister of Sweden</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1936/VsNHIP3x">1936</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_22/YtClwxAE">September 22</a> – <a href="/facts/Anastasios_Charalambis/H0fYq54W">Anastasios Charalambis</a>, Prime Minister of Greece (d. <a href="/facts/1949/25neuEUm">1949</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_23/0VDxMSs7">September 23</a> – <a href="/facts/Denis_Auguste_Duch%C3%AAne/1pYo88Un">Denis Auguste Duchêne</a>, French general (d. <a href="/facts/1950/mxu5oLbY">1950</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_25/Xx6ja6nh">September 25</a> – <a href="/facts/Billy_Hughes/adHItHwC">Billy Hughes</a>, 7th <a href="/facts/Prime_Minister_of_Australia/yzh0N8oH">Prime Minister of Australia</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1952/LYQM5Bu0">1952</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_27/AlKebam5">September 27</a> – <a href="/facts/Louis_Botha/vWDhQwus">Louis Botha</a>, Boer general, first <a href="/facts/Prime_Minister_of_South_Africa/R3wbwE2o">Prime Minister of South Africa</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1919/5R5RKF5E">1919</a>)</li></ul> <h3>October–December</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/October_3/vvevkuTv">October 3</a> – <a href="/facts/Johnny_Briggs_(cricketer)/xqoqUDpF">Johnny Briggs</a>, English cricketer (d. <a href="/facts/1902/MHb8RK0o">1902</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_12/HLQNWqyv">October 12</a> – <a href="/facts/Theodor_Boveri/vMqS6nF4">Theodor Boveri</a>, German biologist (d. <a href="/facts/1915/slMK9ba3">1915</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_13/DBumjTCV">October 13</a> – <a href="/facts/Mary_Kingsley/tvss3yQx">Mary Kingsley</a>, English explorer (d. <a href="/facts/1900/vjRuWbwa">1900</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_18/V8H762CJ">October 18</a> – <a href="/facts/Mehmet_Esat_B%C3%BClkat/vBM3KoyB">Mehmet Esat Bülkat</a>, Ottoman general (d. <a href="/facts/1952/LYQM5Bu0">1952</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_19/C2NLg2kT">October 19</a> – <a href="/facts/Auguste_Lumi%C3%A8re/dplwB7Ae">Auguste Lumière</a>, French inventor (d. <a href="/facts/1954/qggMYsgW">1954</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_26/fu1RczjD">October 26</a> – <a href="/facts/Hilma_af_Klint/QeepP6kn">Hilma af Klint</a>, Swedish abstract painter (d. <a href="/facts/1944/A6Jvm3T6">1944</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_27/SD6UTgwY">October 27</a> – <a href="/facts/Hugh_Evan-Thomas/xK7SJ9WI">Hugh Evan-Thomas</a>, British admiral (d. <a href="/facts/1928/GY8IzJk3">1928</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_28/030z6rqj">October 28</a> – <a href="/facts/Nicholas_Timothy_Clerk/hsKGcCPk">Nicholas Timothy Clerk</a>, Gold Coast theologian, missionary and Presbyterian minister (d. <a href="/facts/1961/aVtANPeE">1961</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_5/R6zpvmwa">November 5</a> – <a href="/facts/Annie_Laurie_Wilson_James/NNCYmmjJ">Annie Laurie Wilson James</a>, American journalist focused on horses (unknown year of death)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_14/BWGYEkQS">November 14</a> – <a href="/facts/George_Washington_Vanderbilt_II/gLJIDLQl">George Washington Vanderbilt II</a>, American businessman (d. <a href="/facts/1914/VNGWH7j3">1914</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_15/5XjT5ocg">November 15</a> – <a href="/facts/Gerhart_Hauptmann/0Xp9jU92">Gerhart Hauptmann</a>, German writer, <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize/3z1Y3oFL">Nobel Prize</a> laureate (d. <a href="/facts/1946/BnTf4qUs">1946</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_16/9NKJYenm">November 16</a> – <a href="/facts/Charles_Turner_(Australian_cricketer)/swkKvurp">Charles Turner</a>, Australian cricketer (d. <a href="/facts/1944/A6Jvm3T6">1944</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_19/r6ss938W">November 19</a> – <a href="/facts/Billy_Sunday/FITcNcnf">Billy Sunday</a>, American baseball player, evangelist and prohibitionist (d. <a href="/facts/1935/cgLN91AJ">1935</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_23/8SFDmo7f">November 23</a> – <a href="/facts/Ernest_Guglielminetti/b719IR10">Ernest Guglielminetti</a>, Swiss physician (d. <a href="/facts/1943/3DdRsjrn">1943</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_24/MYa9bfaS">November 24</a> – <a href="/facts/Konrad_Krafft_von_Dellmensingen/k6g9udlI">Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen</a>, Bavarian general (d. <a href="/facts/1953/9mQVlynh">1953</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_5/qEN5wMzt">December 5</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/William_Walker_Atkinson/CCxoQmJb">William Walker Atkinson</a>, American spiritual writer (d. <a href="/facts/1932/XlUMqV5p">1932</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/John_Henry_Leech/LNymWzDT">John Henry Leech</a>, English entomologist (d. <a href="/facts/1900/vjRuWbwa">1900</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/December_8/6efHKDyg">December 8</a> – <a href="/facts/Georges_Feydeau/5NhM3KIx">Georges Feydeau</a>, French playwright (d. <a href="/facts/1921/7abkb6mF">1921</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_12/wo5rv56W">December 12</a> – <a href="/facts/J._Bruce_Ismay/Mltf5srF">J. Bruce Ismay</a>, English shipping magnate, <a href="/facts/White_Star_Line/qrVPXzE8">White Star Line</a> (d. <a href="/facts/1937/BUX8Hwbf">1937</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_15/JNJ0bo0L">December 15</a> – <a href="/facts/Adrien_Loir/u5vjYLGm">Adrien Loir</a>, French biologist, bacteriologist (d. <a href="/facts/1941/MxJwh6rk">1941</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_25/cQC6alfX">December 25</a> – <a href="/facts/Wilhelm_Weinberg/AA1Qoqhc">Wilhelm Weinberg</a>, German physician (d. <a href="/facts/1937/BUX8Hwbf">1937</a>)</li></ul> <h3>Date unknown</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Al_Herpin/g8gF1MNl">Al Herpin</a> (<i>The Man Who Never Slept</i>), notable French-born American insomniac (d. <a href="/facts/1947/Wy1AYbDz">1947</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Jessie_King_(writer)/ERfkRocm">Jessie King</a>, Scottish author (unknown year of death)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Antoinette_Kinney/IqnYl0Mt">Antoinette Kinney</a>, American state senator (d. 1945)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Sufi_Azizur_Rahman/naSFPWIM">Sufi Azizur Rahman</a>, Bengali Muslim theologian and teacher (d. <a href="/facts/1922/AFrJQ34X">1922</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <h3>January–June</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/January_10/9GMS7Pz5">January 10</a> – <a href="/facts/Samuel_Colt/sFKprkIc">Samuel Colt</a>, American firearms inventor (b. <a href="/facts/1814/j29hWtXH">1814</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/January_18/3SBX5CoM">January 18</a> – <a href="/facts/John_Tyler/fx0r6cvW">John Tyler</a>, 71, 10th President of the United States (b. <a href="/facts/1790/s8qdo8FR">1790</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/January_20/GcrSc1fb">January 20</a> – <a href="/facts/Harriet_Auber/MrmlwJLQ">Harriet Auber</a>, English poet (b. <a href="/facts/1773/v86LdbWr">1773</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_3/5zp8ahYw">February 3</a> – <a href="/facts/Jean-Baptiste_Biot/DoJDp358">Jean-Baptiste Biot</a>, French physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. <a href="/facts/1774/KBzhWkgq">1774</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_7/CQCdJqUw">February 7</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Francisco_de_Paula_Mart%C3%ADnez_de_la_Rosa_y_Berdejo/MpxA8Ryl">Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo</a>, Prime Minister of Spain (b. <a href="/facts/1787/I2GaPFfB">1787</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Prosper_M%C3%A9ni%C3%A8re/rIFegxul">Prosper Ménière</a>, French scientist (b. <a href="/facts/1799/cHlk6GYJ">1799</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/February_20/okIbPUW6">February 20</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Francisco_Balagtas/qqCRpXNw">Francisco Balagtas</a>, Filipino poet (b. <a href="/facts/1788/z3JxsH1K">1788</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/William_Wallace_Lincoln/YD19RLRJ">William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln</a>, third son of U.S. President <a href="/facts/Abraham_Lincoln/F8VqYAsA">Abraham Lincoln</a> and <a href="/facts/Mary_Todd_Lincoln/MgPp63z0">Mary Todd Lincoln</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1850/hCD3XDg7">1850</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/February_21/RsJKSKWh">February 21</a> – <a href="/facts/Justinus_Kerner/EoQVj0do">Justinus Kerner</a>, German physician (b. <a href="/facts/1786/QyXMf0Bn">1786</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_24/Bw3LGK6c">February 24</a> – <a href="/facts/Bernhard_Severin_Ingemann/5mRvy0ll">Bernhard Severin Ingemann</a>, Danish novelist, poet (b. <a href="/facts/1789/q2vGJ9n1">1789</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/February_25/80yUkkDG">February 25</a> – Jonathan Hine, English hosiery manufacturer (b. <a href="/facts/1778/FqbucKX5">1778</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_22/fSA3uKnK">March 22</a> – <a href="/facts/Manuel_Robles_Pezuela/H5SRApGF">Manuel Robles Pezuela</a>, former President of Mexico (executed) (b. <a href="/facts/1817/0Qb5vfNS">1817</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_6/dHolSS8U">April 6</a> – <a href="/facts/Albert_Sidney_Johnston/76n34Mww">Albert Sidney Johnston</a>, American Confederate general (b. <a href="/facts/1803/YrFcxtRR">1803</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_9/YXsD7q0j">April 9</a> – <a href="/facts/John_Thomas_(sculptor)/cVmwGUjb">John Thomas</a>, English Victorian sculptor (b. <a href="/facts/1813/24mtbexz">1813</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_10/AuHxexMb">April 10</a> – <a href="/facts/W._H._L._Wallace/ujfch6pB">W. H. L. Wallace</a>, <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a> Union general (died of wounds) (b. <a href="/facts/1821/5rq9kmS4">1821</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/April_19/7VAgzapI">April 19</a> – <a href="/facts/Louis_P._Harvey/8790nUe3">Louis P. Harvey</a>, Governor of Wisconsin (b. <a href="/facts/1820/r9SR83gv">1820</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_6/blgxDDYV">May 6</a> – <a href="/facts/Henry_David_Thoreau/pVoPIsK3">Henry David Thoreau</a>, American author, philosopher (b. <a href="/facts/1817/0Qb5vfNS">1817</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_16/GjA7NgnX">May 16</a> – <a href="/facts/Edward_Gibbon_Wakefield/rbHsKl8o">Edward Gibbon Wakefield</a>, English theorist of colonization (b. <a href="/facts/1796/xe4bVvGg">1796</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_21/7eCgCTWG">May 21</a> – <a href="/facts/John_Drew_(actor)/HLQTMm0Y">John Drew Sr.</a>, Irish-American actor, manager (b. <a href="/facts/1827/3VPfpxnF">1827</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_25/VasFejaY">May 25</a> – <a href="/facts/Juana_Azurduy_de_Padilla/F0bXQIVz">Juana Azurduy de Padilla</a>, South American guerrilla military leader (b. c. <a href="/facts/1781/YvK88M1N">1781</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/May_29/aEkfT7p6">May 29</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Henry_Thomas_Buckle/6bhnbmw4">Henry Thomas Buckle</a>, English historian sometimes called "the father of scientific history" (b. <a href="/facts/1821/5rq9kmS4">1821</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Franciszek_Mirecki/KG8BjGn5">Franciszek Mirecki</a>, Polish composer, music conductor, and music teacher (b. <a href="/facts/1791/h2byaFmA">1791</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/June_3/0xgJm0U3">June 3</a> – <a href="/facts/John_Lea_(epidemiologist)/o6ssE9ay">John Lea</a>, American epidemiologist (b. <a href="/facts/1782/rCE7RQcG">1782</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_17/1bFlHRf9">June 17</a> – <a href="/facts/Charles_Canning,_1st_Earl_Canning/kNDBnnD2">Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning</a>, English Viceroy of India (b. <a href="/facts/1812/XISCd2Wu">1812</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_20/k8thsbu0">June 20</a> – <a href="/facts/Barbu_Catargiu/zWpbwavg">Barbu Catargiu</a>, 1st Prime Minister of Romania (b. <a href="/facts/1807/WIELGVCy">1807</a>)</li></ul> <h3>July–December</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/July_23/pQFpKSIn">July 23</a> – <a href="/facts/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Bocanegra/r662zQUT">José María Bocanegra</a>, 3rd <a href="/facts/President_of_Mexico/WKeRteSb">President of Mexico</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1787/I2GaPFfB">1787</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_24/lMUqGvj6">July 24</a> – <a href="/facts/Martin_Van_Buren/eLHQGzL1">Martin Van Buren</a>, 79, 8th <a href="/facts/President_of_the_United_States/oMsfmLb1">President of the United States</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1782/rCE7RQcG">1782</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_18/BLYFtpnd">August 18</a> – <a href="/facts/Simon_Fraser_(explorer)/PvXe1Iy2">Simon Fraser</a>, Canadian explorer (b. <a href="/facts/1776/4m6rJpzd">1776</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_20/a2rr3sGH">August 20</a> – <a href="/facts/Javiera_Carrera/CVEfRRzo">Javiera Carrera</a>, Chilean independence fighter (b. <a href="/facts/1771/ycB9PEeh">1771</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_3/HveWHyJI">September 3</a> – <a href="/facts/Shusaku_Honinbo/fUq0rM12">Shusaku Honinbo</a>, Japanese Go player (b. <a href="/facts/1829/G469b3pe">1829</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_6/RRFP6ywh">September 6</a> – <a href="/facts/John_Sumner_(bishop)/pL7lrv7v">John Sumner</a>, <a href="/facts/Archbishop_of_Canterbury/x3H2z6bI">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1780/44aMMEeW">1780</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_10/1EqUc6E2">September 10</a> – <a href="/facts/Carlos_Antonio_L%C3%B3pez/pD0nTndz">Carlos Antonio López</a>, president of <a href="/facts/Paraguay/sbzfv4Rl">Paraguay</a> (b. <a href="/facts/1792/YszyqCQ7">1792</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_14/12T7sEP3">September 14</a> – <a href="/facts/Charles_Lennox_Richardson/EpdoFBlr">Charles Lennox Richardson</a>, English merchant murdered in Japan (b. <a href="/facts/1834/zTS0oaSP">1834</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_24/ykTEzw6d">September 24</a> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Judith_Montefiore/ByEDUo6F">Judith Montefiore</a>, British linguist (b. <a href="/facts/1784/V7EehDfV">1784</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Anton_Martin_Slom%C5%A1ek/DKCc76Gf">Anton Martin Slomšek</a>, Slovene Roman Catholic bishop (b. <a href="/facts/1800/G5Il6fwc">1800</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/facts/October_8/8L9N9dls">October 8</a> – <a href="/facts/James_Walker_(engineer)/g3uAJXhz">James Walker</a>, Scottish engineer (b. <a href="/facts/1781/YvK88M1N">1781</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_15/aljFmUX6">October 15</a> – <a href="/facts/Hans_Daniel_Ludwig_Friedrich_Hassenpflug/yjFYVL4b">Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug</a>, German statesman (b. <a href="/facts/1794/9u6HxdjY">1794</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_7/mYeHmRT9">November 7</a> – <a href="/facts/Bahadur_Shah_II/ohD4mB2R">Bahadur Shah II</a>, 19th and Last mughal emperor (b. <a href="/facts/1775/9PSgKBNU">1775</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_13/brMnXpU8">November 13</a> – <a href="/facts/Ludwig_Uhland/0C8utSTe">Ludwig Uhland</a>, German poet (b. <a href="/facts/1787/I2GaPFfB">1787</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_17/aoj9k4og">November 17</a> – <a href="/facts/Mary_Whitwell_Hale/k9xqcP16">Mary Whitwell Hale</a>, American school founder (b. <a href="/facts/1810/KghrRXX6">1810</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_4/VG2J0cjd">December 4</a> – <a href="/facts/James_Bennett_(minister)/v3RRYvcN">James Bennett (minister)</a>, English congregational minister (b. <a href="/facts/1774/KBzhWkgq">1774</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_13/wHq3rj4U">December 13</a> – <a href="/facts/Thomas_Reade_Rootes_Cobb/hYGK5tb5">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>, American Confederate general (killed in action) (b. <a href="/facts/1823/jrk4eX9n">1823</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_18/54N9zaoh">December 18</a> – <a href="/facts/Barbara_Fritchie/jAjwcIv2">Barbara Fritchie</a>, American Civil War patriot (b. <a href="/facts/1766/foehIU48">1766</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li 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