1861 Calendar
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1861 Historical Event(s)
January 21, 1861
– American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
March 3, 1861
– Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
March 10, 1861
– El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
May 29, 1861
– The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce was founded, in Hong Kong.
June 1, 1861
– American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861), first land battle of American Civil War after Battle of Fort Sumter, first Confederate combat casualty.
June 3, 1861
– American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
June 17, 1861
– Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War.
July 25, 1861
– American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
November 1, 1861
– American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
November 9, 1861
– The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
Who Were Born On 1861?
February 15, 1861
– Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1938)
April 23, 1861
– John Peltz, American baseball player (d. 1906)
June 12, 1861
– William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927)
June 20, 1861
– Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (d. 1947)
June 22, 1861
– Maximilian von Spee, Denmark-born German admiral (d. 1914)
June 29, 1861
– William James Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)
August 6, 1861
– Edith Roosevelt, American First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
September 20, 1861
– Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
November 18, 1861
– Dorothy Dix, American journalist (d. 1951)
December 4, 1861
– Lillian Russell, American singer and actress (d. 1922)