1863 Calendar
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1863 Historical Event(s)
January 1, 1863
– The first claim under the Homestead Act is made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska.
February 7, 1863
– HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
March 19, 1863
– The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
March 30, 1863
– Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
April 22, 1863
– American Civil War: Grierson’s Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
May 12, 1863
– American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson’s XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton’s defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
May 14, 1863
– American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
September 16, 1863
– Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
September 19, 1863
– American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
November 18, 1863
– King Christian IX of Denmark decides to sign the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.
Who Were Born On 1863?
April 5, 1863
– Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)
June 21, 1863
– Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
July 1, 1863
– William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
July 12, 1863
– Paul Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
July 22, 1863
– Alec Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1952)
August 15, 1863
– Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)
September 29, 1863
– Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (d. 1919)
October 10, 1863
– Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
November 11, 1863
– Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
December 15, 1863
– Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and chemical engineer (d. 1935)