1862 Calendar
A year scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

1862 Calendar

January
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 
February
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
232425262728 
March
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     
April
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930   
May
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
June
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     
July
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
August
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31      
September
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930    
October
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 
November
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30      
December
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   

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1862 Historical Event(s)

February 15, 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
March 7, 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
March 23, 1862 – The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
June 4, 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
July 1, 1862 – The Russian State Library is founded.
August 17, 1862 – Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
November 5, 1862 – Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
November 14, 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside’s plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
December 1, 1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

Who Were Born On 1862?

January 3, 1862 – Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland (d. 1939)
January 29, 1862 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
February 3, 1862 – James Clark McReynolds, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946)
March 23, 1862 – Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d. 1950)
July 2, 1862 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
August 5, 1862 – Joseph Merrick, English sideshow performer (d. 1890)
August 22, 1862 – Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
August 29, 1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
September 11, 1862 – O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
November 3, 1862 – Henry George, Jr., American politician (d. 1916)