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1862 (MDCCCLXII) was a common year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1862nd year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini(AD) designations, the 862nd
year of the 2nd millennium,
the 62nd year of the 19th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1860s decade. As of
the start of 1862, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. This year was named
by Mitchell Stephens as
the greatest year to read newspapers. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit]
·
January 1 – The United Kingdom
annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria. ·
January 6 – French
intervention in Mexico: French,
Spanish, and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico. ·
January 10 – John Gately Downey,
7th Governor
of California, is succeeded by Amasa Leland
Stanford. ·
January 16 – Hartley
Colliery disaster: 204 men are trapped and die underground, when
the only shaft becomes blocked. ·
January 30 – American Civil War:
The first U.S. ironclad warship, USS Monitor, is launched. ·
January 31 – Alvan Graham Clark makes
the first observation of Sirius B, a white dwarf star, through an
eighteen-inch telescope at Northwestern
University.
February 6: Battle of Fort Henry. ·
February 1 – American Civil War: Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn
of the Republic is published for the first time in
the Atlantic Monthly. ·
February 2 – The first railway opens
in New Zealand, by
the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company. ·
February 6 – American Civil War:
General Ulysses S. Grant gives
the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry,
Tennessee. ·
February 11–16 – American Civil War – Battle of Fort
Donelson: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee, capturing it on the last day. ·
February 20 – Ángel
de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, is named director of Spain's Real Academia
Española. ·
February 21 – American Civil War – Battle of Valverde:
Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Fort Craig, in New Mexico Territory: ·
February 22 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is officially
inaugurated in Richmond, Virginia,
to a 6-year term as president of the Confederate
States of America. ·
March 7 – American Civil War – Battle of Pea Ridge:
The Confederates are shut out of Missouri. ·
March 8 – American Civil War:
The ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly
USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia; the Battle of Hampton
Roads starts the same day. ·
March 9 – American Civil War:
The first battle between two ironclad warships, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, begins. ·
March 13 ·
American Civil War:
The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning
fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave
Act of 1850, and setting the stage for the Emancipation
Proclamation. ·
A smallpox epidemic in San Francisco spreads to British Columbia.[1] ·
March 26–28 – American Civil War – Battle of
Glorieta Pass: In New Mexico, Union forces succeed in stopping
the Confederate invasion
of New Mexico Territory. ·
March 31 – Victor Hugo's epic French historical
novel Les Misérables is
published. April–June[edit] ·
April 1 – French
intervention in Mexico: The Spanish and the British end their
alliance with France. ·
April 5 – American Civil War – Battle of
Yorktown: The battle begins when Union forces under General George B. McClellan close
in on the Confederate capital
of Richmond, Virginia. ·
April 6–7– American Civil War – Battle of Shiloh: The Union Army, under General Ulysses S. Grant, defeats the Confederates
near Shiloh,
Tennessee. ·
April 12 – American Civil War – Andrew's Raid: Union volunteers steal a Confederate
locomotive, setting off the Great Locomotive
Chase, famously involving the use of The General steam
locomotive, which still exists in the 21st century. ·
April 13 – The government of Vietnam is forced to cede the
territories of Biên Hòa, Gia
Định and Định
Tường to France. ·
April 25 – American Civil War – Capture of New
Orleans: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut occupy the Confederate
city of New Orleans,
securing access to the Mississippi River. ·
April 26 – American Civil War – Siege of Fort Macon &ndash:
The besieged Confederate garrison
at Fort Macon, North Carolina surrenders. ·
May 1–November 1 – The 1862
International Exhibition is held at South Kensington in London; it is
particularly noteworthy for an exhibit from Japan, influential in the
development of Anglo-Japanese style.[2] ·
May 2 – The California
State Normal School (later San Jose State
University) is created by an Act of the California Legislature. ·
May 5 – French
intervention in Mexico – Battle of Puebla: Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza defeats the French
Army; commemorated each year as Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for Fifth
of May). ·
May 11 – American Civil War:
The ironclad CSS Virginia is
scuttled in the James River northwest
of Norfolk, Virginia. ·
May 15 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law
creating the U.S. Bureau of Agriculture (later renamed U.S.
Department of Agriculture). ·
May 20 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law. ·
May 24 – Westminster Bridge is
opened in England. This new bridge, designed by Thomas Page,
replaces the old bridge. ·
June 1 – American Civil War – Battle of Fair Oaks:
Both sides claim victory. ·
June 4 – American Civil War: Confederate troops
evacuate Fort Pillow on
the Mississippi River,
leaving the way clear for U.S. Army troops to capture Memphis, Tennessee. ·
June 5 – Treaty of Saigon: Emperor Tự
Đức of the Nguyễn Dynasty in Vietnam cedes Saigon, Côn Sơn Island and
three southern provinces of what is to become known as Cochinchina (Biên Hòa, Gia
Định, and Định Tường), to become
part of the French colonial
empire. Guerilla leader Trương
Định refuses to recognise the treaty. ·
June 6 – American Civil War – Battle of Memphis:
U.S. Army troops capture Memphis, Tennessee from
the Confederate
States. ·
June 8 – American Civil War – Battle of Cross Keys:
Confederate troops under General Stonewall Jackson save
the Army of
Northern Virginia from a U.S. Army attack on the James
Peninsula, that is led by General George B. McClellan. ·
June 12 – John Winter Robinson,
the Secretary of
State of Kansas, is convicted and removed from office as the
result of a bond scandal,
becoming the first state executive official to be impeached and
removed from office in American history. ·
June 26 – American Civil War – Battle of
Mechanicsville: Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the troops of
General George B. McClellan,
in the first of the Seven Days Battles. July–September[edit] ·
July 1 ·
The Bureau of Internal Revenue, the
forerunner of the Internal Revenue
Service, is established in the United States. ·
Princess
Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince
Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine. ·
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs into law
the Pacific Railroad
Acts, authorizing construction of the First
Transcontinental Railroad.[3] ·
The Russian State
Library is founded, as The Library of the Moscow Public
Museum. ·
July 2 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Morrill Land-Grant
Act into law, creating a system of land-grant colleges,
to teach agricultural and mechanical sciences across the United States. ·
July 4 – Charles Dodgson (better known
as Lewis Carroll)
extemporises the story that becomes Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland, for ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, on a
rowboat trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow.
Diagram of US Federal Government
and American Union. Published: 1862, July 15. ·
July 16 – American Civil War: David G. Farragut becomes
the first rear admiral in
the U.S. Navy. ·
July 18 – Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in
the Alps, is first ascended. ·
July 23 – American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of
the Union Army. ·
August 5 – American Civil War – Battle of
Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the
city. ·
August 6 – American Civil War:
The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on
the Mississippi River,
after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex, near Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. ·
August 9 – American Civil War – Battle of Cedar
Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly
defeats Union forces under General John Pope. ·
August 14 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln meets with a group of
prominent African-Americans, the first time an American President has done
so. He suggests that Black people should migrate to Africa or to Central
America, but this advice is rejected. ·
August 17 – The Dakota War of 1862 begins
in Minnesota, as Dakota Sioux attack white
settlements along the Minnesota River. They are overwhelmed by the
U.S. Army six weeks later. ·
August 19 – Dakota War of 1862:
During an uprising in Minnesota, Dakota
warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely, and instead turn to the
settlement of New Ulm, killing
white settlers along the way. ·
August 21 – The Vienna Stadtpark opens
its gates. ·
August 28–30 – American Civil War – Second Battle
of Bull Run: Confederate forces inflict a crushing defeat on Union
General John Pope. ·
August 29–30 – American Civil War – Battle of Richmond,
Kentucky: Confederate forces, led by General Edmund Kirby Smith,
inflict a crushing defeat on Union General William
"Bull" Nelson. ·
September 1 – American Civil War – Battle of Chantilly:
Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads
his forces in an attack on retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia,
driving them away. ·
September 2 – American Civil War:
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly
restores Union General George B. McClellan to
full command, after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle
of Bull Run. ·
September 5 – American Civil War:
In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of
the Army of
Northern Virginiaacross the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia,
into Maryland. ·
September 10 – Francisco Solano
López is appointed second President of
Paraguay. ·
September 17 – American Civil War – ·
Battle of Antietam:
Union forces strategically defeat Confederate troops at Sharpsburg, Maryland,
in the bloodiest day in U.S. history, with over 22,000 casualties. ·
American Civil War:
The Allegheny Arsenal explosion
results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war. ·
September 19 – American Civil War – Battle of Iuka: Union troops under Major
General William Rosecrans defeat
a Confederate force commanded by Major General Sterling Price at Iuka, Mississippi. ·
Otto von Bismarck becomes
prime minister of Prussia, following
refusal by the country's Landtag to accept
the military budget. ·
American Civil War:
The preliminary announcement of the Emancipation
Proclamation is made, by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. ·
September 29 – Prussian prime
minister Otto von Bismarck delivers
his Blood and Iron speech to the Prussian Landtag. October–December[edit]
December 13: Battle of
Fredericksburg. ·
October 8 – American Civil War – Battle of Perryville: Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederateinvasion
of Kentucky, by defeating troops led by
General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky. ·
October 9 – The Transvaal Civil War breaks
out, following Stephanus Schoeman’s
unconstitutional ousting of the acting President of the Executive Council of the South African Republic.[4] ·
October 11 – American Civil War:
In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania, during a raid into the North. ·
October 23 – Otto is deposed as King of Greece. ·
October 24 – Ramón Castilla loses
the Presidency of Peru for a second
time. ·
October 25 – In the Granadine
Confederation (present-day Colombia), rebel troops of the southern
states defeat government forces. ·
November 4 – Richard Jordan
Gatling patents the Gatling gun in the United States. ·
American Civil War:
President Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as
commander of the Union Army. ·
American Indian Wars:
In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and
murder of white settlers, and are sentenced to hang. ·
November 14 – American Civil War:
President Abraham Lincoln approves
the plan by General Ambrose Burnside to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia.
This plan leads to a disastrous Union defeat at the Battle of
Fredericksburg on December 13). ·
American Civil War – Battle of Cane Hill: Union Army troops, led by General John
Blunt, push back Confederate
troops, commanded by General John Marmaduke, into the northwestern Boston Mountains of Arkansas. ·
Notts County F.C. is
founded in Nottingham, England,
making it (by the 21st century) the world's oldest professional Association football team. ·
December – Peruvian slave raiders land
on Easter Island,
beginning a decade of the destruction of the society
and population on the island. ·
December 1 – In his State of the
Union address, President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity
of ending slavery, as he ordered ten weeks earlier in his Emancipation
Proclamation.
·
December 2 – The first United States Navy hospital ships enter service. ·
December 12 – American Civil War – Yazoo Pass
Expedition: Union ironclad gunboat USS Cairo is sunk by a
remotely-detonated "torpedo" (naval mine) while clearing mines from
the Yazoo River, the
first armored ship sunk by mine. ·
December 13 – American Civil War – Battle of
Fredericksburg: The Union Army suffers massive casualties,
and abandons its attempts to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia. ·
December 17 – American Civil War: General Order
No. 11, which expels all Jews from his military district, is
issued by General Ulysses S. Grant. This order is rescinded
just a few weeks later. ·
December 26 – William D. Duly hangs 38
Dakota Sioux Indians in Minnesota. ·
December 26–29 – American Civil War – Battle of
Chickasaw Bayou: Another victory for the Confederate Army,
outnumbered two to one, results in six times as many Union casualties,
defeating several assaults commanded by Union general William T. Sherman. ·
December 30 – USS Monitor sinks in a
storm in the Atlantic, off Cape
Hatteras, North Carolina. ·
December 31 – American Civil War:
President Abraham Lincoln signs
an act that admits West Virginia to
the Union, thus dividing Virginia into two.
Meanwhile, the Battle of Stones
River opens near Murfreesboro,
Tennessee.
American Civil War in
1862 Date unknown[edit] ·
Anna Leonowens accepts an offer made by
the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and
children of Mongkut, the King of
Siam. ·
Donald McIntyre builds a settlement in
northwest Queensland (Australia)
which becomes the town of Julia Creek (named
after his niece). Births[edit] January–March[edit]
·
January 9 – Carrie Clark Ward,
American silent film actress (d. 1926) ·
January 10 – Harriet Mabel
Spalding, American litterateur and poet (d. 1935) ·
January 15 – Loie Fuller, American dancer (d. 1928) ·
January 23 – David Hilbert, German mathematician
(d. 1943) ·
January 24 – Edith Wharton, American fiction writer
(d. 1937) ·
January 29 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934) ·
January 30 – Walter Damrosch, German-born American
orchestral conductor (d. 1950) ·
February 2 – George Arthur
Boeckling, German-American businessman, president of Cedar Point
Pleasure Company (d. 1931) ·
February 3 – James Clark
McReynolds, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1946) ·
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld,
13th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1953) ·
George Ernest
Morrison, Australian adventurer, journalist (d. 1920) ·
February 7 – Bernard Maybeck, American Arts and Crafts
architect (d. 1957) ·
February 8 – Ferdinand Ferber, French Army captain,
aviation pioneer (d. 1909) ·
February 17 – Edward German, English composer (d. 1936) ·
February 25 – Stanisław
Głąbiński, Polish politician, academic, lawyer and
writer (d. 1941) ·
March 4 – Jacob Robert Emden,
Swiss astrophysicist, meteorologist (d. 1940) ·
March 8 – George
Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero (d. 1904) ·
March 13 – Jane Delano, American founder of the
American Red Cross Nursing Service (d. 1919) ·
March 14 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist, meteorologist
(d. 1951) ·
March 17 – Silvio Gesell, German economist (d. 1930) ·
March 25 ·
William E. Johnson,
American leader of the Anti-Saloon League (d. 1950) ·
George Sutherland,
American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1942) ·
March 28 – Aristide Briand, French politician, winner
of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932) ·
March 29 – Adolfo Müller-Ury,
Swiss-born American painter (d. 1947) April–June[edit] ·
April 2 – Nicholas Murray
Butler, American president of Columbia University,
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1947) ·
April 6 – Georges Darien, French writer (d. 1921) ·
April 11 ·
Charles Evans Hughes,
American jurist, politician, Chief
Justice of the United States (d. 1948) ·
Lurana W. Sheldon,
American author and editor (d. 1945) ·
April 26 – Edmund C. Tarbell,
American Impressionist painter (d. 1938) ·
April 27 – Rudolph Schildkraut,
Ottoman-born Austrian actor (d. 1930) ·
May 8 – Emilie Rathou, Swedish Social Democrat,
temperance and women's rights activist (d. 1948) ·
May 15 – Arthur Schnitzler,
Austrian dramatist, narrator (d. 1931) ·
May 27 – John Kendrick Bangs,
American author, satirist (d. 1922) ·
June 5 – Allvar Gullstrand,
Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930) ·
June 7 – Philipp Lenard, Hungarian–German physicist,
winner of the Nobel Prize in
Physics (d. 1947) ·
June 10 – John de Robeck, British admiral (d. 1928) ·
June 21 – Damrong Rajanubhab,
Thai prince, historian (d. 1943) ·
June 27 – May Irwin, Canadian actress, singer
(d. 1938) ·
June 29 – William Johnston
Tupper, Canadian politician (d. 1947) July–September[edit]
·
July 2 ·
William Henry Bragg,
English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1942) ·
Christopher Cradock,
British admiral (d. 1914) ·
July 8 – Josephine White
Bates, Canadian-born American author (d. 1934) ·
July 14 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian artist (d. 1918) ·
July 15 – Ernest Troubridge,
British admiral (d. 1926) ·
July 16 – Ida B. Wells, American journalist,
suffragist, and anti-lynching crusader (d. 1931) ·
July 24 – Percy FitzPatrick,
South African author, politician and mining financier (d. 1931) ·
July 27 – Arthur Starr Eakle,
American mineralogist (d. 1931) ·
July 30 – Božena Viková-Kunětická,
Czech politician (d. 1934) ·
August 5 – Joseph Merrick (the Elephant
Man), English sufferer from deformities (d. 1890) ·
August 16 – Amos Alonzo Stagg,
American football player, coach (d. 1965) ·
August 21 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (d. 1911) ·
August 22 – Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918) ·
August 26 – Herbert Booth, English-born Salvationist,
third son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926) ·
Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime
Minister of Australia (d. 1928) ·
Maurice Maeterlinck,
Belgian writer, Nobel Prize in
Literature laureate (d. 1949) ·
Julian
Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British general, 12th Governor
General of Canada (d. 1935) ·
Hawley Harvey
Crippen, American-born medical practitioner, uxoricide
(hanged 1910) ·
O. Henry, born William Sydney Porter,
American short-story writer (d. 1910) ·
September 12 – Carl Eytel, German-American artist working
in Palm Springs,
California (d. 1925) ·
September 19 – Arvid Lindman, Swedish admiral,
industrialist, and politician (d. 1936) ·
September 22 – Anastasios
Charalambis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1949) ·
September 23 – Denis Auguste
Duchêne, French general (d. 1950) ·
September 25 – Billy Hughes, 7th Prime
Minister of Australia (d. 1952) ·
September 27 – Louis Botha, Boer general, first Prime
Minister of South Africa (d. 1919) October–December[edit]
·
October 3 – Johnny Briggs,
English cricketer (d. 1902) ·
October 12 – Theodor Boveri, German biologist (d. 1915) ·
October 18 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat,
Ottoman general (d. 1952) ·
October 19 – Auguste Lumière,
French inventor (d. 1954) ·
Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter
(d. 1944) ·
Thomas J. Preston,
Jr., American Professor of Archeology at Princeton University,
second husband of Frances Cleveland,
widow of President Grover Cleveland (d. 1955) ·
October 27 – Hugh Evan-Thomas, British admiral (d. 1928) ·
November 3 – Henry George, Jr.,
American politician (d. 1916) ·
November 5 – Annie Laurie
Wilson James, American journalist focused on horses (unknown year
of death) ·
November 14 – George
Washington Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1914) ·
November 15 – Gerhart Hauptmann,
German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1946) ·
November 16 – Charles
Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944) ·
November 19 – Billy Sunday, American baseball player,
evangelist and prohibitionist (d. 1935) ·
November 23 – Ernest
Guglielminetti, Swiss physician (d. 1943) ·
November 24 – Konrad
Krafft von Dellmensingen, Bavarian general (d. 1953) ·
William Walker
Atkinson, American spiritual writer (d. 1932) ·
John Henry Leech, English entomologist
(d. 1900) ·
December 8 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921) ·
December 12 – J. Bruce Ismay, English shipping
magnate, White Star Line (d. 1937) ·
December 15 – Adrien Loir, French biologist, bacteriologist
(d. 1941) ·
December 17 – Moriz Rosenthal, Polish pianist (d. 1946) ·
December 25 – Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician (d. 1937) Date unknown[edit] ·
Al Herpin (The Man Who Never Slept),
notable French-born American insomniac (d. 1947) ·
Jessie King,
Scottish author (unknown year of death) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 10 – Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor
(b. 1814) ·
January 18 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United
States (b. 1790) ·
January 20 – Harriet Auber, English poet (b. 1773) ·
February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Biot,
French physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1774) ·
Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo,
Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1787) ·
Prosper Ménière,
French scientist (b. 1799) ·
Francisco Balagtas,
Filipino poet (b. 1788) ·
William Wallace
"Willie" Lincoln, third son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln (b. 1850) ·
February 21 – Justinus Kerner, German physician (b. 1786) ·
February 24 – Bernhard
Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist, poet (b. 1789) ·
March 22 – Manuel Robles
Pezuela, former President of Mexico (executed) (b. 1817) ·
April 6 – Albert Sidney
Johnston, American Confederate general (b. 1803) ·
April 10 – W. H. L. Wallace, American Civil War Union
general (b. 1821) ·
April 19 – Louis P. Harvey, Governor of Wisconsin
(b. 1820) ·
May 6 – Henry David Thoreau,
American author, philosopher (b. 1817) ·
May 16 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield,
English theorist of colonization (b. 1796) ·
May 21 – John Drew Sr.,
Irish-American actor, manager (b. 1827) ·
May 25 – Juana Azurduy de
Padilla, South American guerrilla military leader (b. c. 1781) ·
June 17 – Charles
Canning, 1st Earl Canning, English Viceroy of India (b. 1812) ·
June 20 – Barbu Catargiu, 1st Prime Minister of
Romania (b. 1807) July–December[edit]
·
July 23 – José María Bocanegra,
3rd President of Mexico (b. 1787) ·
July 24 – Martin Van Buren, 8th President
of the United States (b. 1782) ·
August 10 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player
(b. 1829) ·
August 18 – Simon Fraser,
Canadian explorer (b. 1776) ·
August 20 – Javiera Carrera, Chilean independence
fighter (b. 1771) ·
September 6 – John Sumner, Archbishop of
Canterbury (b. 1780) ·
September 10 – Carlos Antonio López,
president of Paraguay (b. 1792) ·
September 14 – Charles Lennox
Richardson, English merchant murdered in Japan (b. 1834) ·
September 24 – Judith Montefiore,
British linguist (b. 1784) ·
October 15 – Hans
Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug, German statesman (b. 1794) ·
November 7 – Bahadur Shah II, 19th and Last mughal
emperor (b. 1775) ·
November 13 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787) ·
November 17 – Mary Whitwell Hale,
American school founder (b. 1810) ·
December 13 – Thomas Reade
Rootes Cobb, American Confederate general (killed during the
battle of Fredericksburg) (b. 1823) ·
December 18 – Barbara Fritchie, American Civil War patriot
(b. 1766) References[edit] 1. ^ "The Spirit of Pestilence". University of
Victoria. 2002-03-30. Retrieved 2015-08-23. 2. ^ Halen, Widar
(1990). Christopher Dresser. Phaidon. p. 34. ISBN 0-7148-2952-8. 3. ^ "An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad
and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to
secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other
purposes 12 Stat. 489, July 1, 1862 4. ^ Stormvoël van die Noorde by
O JO Ferreira; Jan Viljoen – ‘n Transvaalse Wesgrenspionier (unpublished
MA dissertation); documents and notes from the Jack Seale collection. |
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