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1864 Calendar

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•  April 8, 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield – Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
•  April 10, 1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is elected emperor of Mexico.
•  April 22, 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
•  May 5, 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
•  May 9, 1864 – Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
•  July 8, 1864 – Ikedaya Jiken: the Choshu Han shishi’s planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
•  August 18, 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern – Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
•  September 1, 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
•  October 28, 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
•  November 13, 1864 – The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.

•  January 11, 1864 – Thomas Dixon, American playwright and legislator (d. 1946)
•  March 17, 1864 – Joseph Baptista, Indian Home Rule Movement founder (d. 1930)
•  June 3, 1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American pioneer (d. 1950)
•  June 13, 1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
•  June 14, 1864 – Alois Alzheimer, German physician (d. 1915)
•  July 15, 1864 – Marie Tempest, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
•  July 20, 1864 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1931)
•  October 17, 1864 – Elinor Glyn, British writer (d. 1943)
•  November 28, 1864 – Lindley M. Garrison, American Secretary of War (d. 1932)
•  December 8, 1864 – Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)