1863 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1863?
- January 1, 1863 – The first claim under the Homestead Act is made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska.
- January 9, 1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
- January 10, 1863 – The London Underground, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
- January 22, 1863 – The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
- February 10, 1863 – The fire extinguisher is patented.
- February 24, 1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
- May 14, 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
- May 18, 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
- July 3, 1863 – American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett’s Charge.
- July 4, 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
- July 19, 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan’s Raid – At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan’s raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
- August 4, 1863 – Matica slovenská, Slovakia’s public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
- August 17, 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
- October 3, 1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
- October 30, 1863 – Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
- November 19, 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- November 25, 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
- November 27, 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
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