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1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was
a leap year starting on
Friday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1864th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
864th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 64th year of the 19th century,
and the 5th year of the 1860s decade. As of
the start of 1864, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] February 17: Submarine H. L. Hunley ·
January 13 – American composer Stephen Collins
Foster (Oh! Susanna)
dies in a New York City hotel. ·
January 16 – Denmark rejects a Prussian–Austrian
ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution,
which says that Schleswig-Holstein is
part of Denmark.[1][2] ·
January 21 – New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign begins. ·
February – John Wisden publishes The
Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864 in England; it
will go on to become the major annual cricket reference publication. ·
February 1 – Danish-Prussian War (Second Schleswig War):
57,000 Austrian and Prussian troops cross the Eider River into Denmark. ·
February 17 – American Civil War:
The tiny Confederate hand-propelled submarine H. L. Hunley sinks
the USS Housatonic (1861),
using a spar torpedo in Charleston Harbor,
becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy ship, although the submarine
and her crew of 8 are also lost.[3] ·
February 20 – American Civil War:
The Union suffers
one of its costliest defeats at the Battle of Olustee near Lake City, Florida. ·
February 25 – American Civil War:
The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville,
Georgia (the 500 prisoners had left Richmond, Virginia 7 days
before). ·
March 1 – Alejandro Mon y
Menéndez takes office as Prime Minister of
Spain. ·
March 9 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln appoints Ulysses S. Grant commander in chief of
all Union armies. ·
March 10 – American Civil War:
The Red River Campaign begins,
as Union troops reach Alexandria,
Louisiana. ·
March 11 – Great Sheffield
Flood: A reservoir near Sheffield, England bursts; 250 die. April–June[edit] ·
April 8 – Gallaudet University is
founded in Washington, D.C.,
as the first university for the deaf and hard of hearing. ·
April 12 – American Civil War – Battle of Fort
Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that
surrender at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. ·
April 15 – Choe Je-u, founder of the Donghak Movement, is executed by
beheading for sedition, at Daegu, Korea. ·
April 18 – Danish-Prussian War (Second Schleswig War)
– Battle of Dybbøl:
The Prussian army, fielding 10,000 men, defeats the Danish defending army of
9,200 at Dybbøl Mill, after an artillery bombardment from April 7–18. ·
April 22 – The United States
Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864,
which mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be
placed on all coins minted as United States
currency. Clipper ship City of Adelaide in
1864 ·
May 2 – Under terms of the Treaty of London,
the United Kingdom voluntarily cedes control of the United
States of the Ionian Islands to the Kingdom of Greece. ·
May 5 – American Civil War:
The Battle of the
Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania
County, Virginia. ·
May 7 ·
American Civil War:
The Army of the Potomac,
under General Ulysses S. Grant,
breaks off from the Battle of the
Wilderness and moves southwards. ·
The clipper ship City of Adelaide is
launched in Sunderland,
England. By the 21st century, she will be the world's oldest surviving
clipper of only two (Cutty Sark being
the other). ·
May 8–21 – American Civil War – Battle
of Spotsylvania Court House: Some 4,000 troops die in an
inconclusive engagement. ·
May 9 ·
Danish-Prussian
War (Second Schleswig War)
– Battle of
Heligoland: The Danish navy gains a tactical victory over those of
Austria and Prussia, near the island of Heligoland. It is the last
significant naval battle fought by squadrons of wooden ships, and also the
last involving Denmark. ·
American
general John Sedgwick is
shot dead during the Battle
of Spotsylvania Court House, shortly after uttering the
famous last words: "They
couldn't hit an elephant from this distance!" Battle of
Heligoland in 1864 by Josef Carl Barthold Puettner ·
May 11 – American Civil War – Battle of Yellow
Tavern: Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart is mortally wounded at
Yellow Tavern, Virginia. ·
May 12 – American Civil War – Battle
of Spotsylvania Court House (The Bloody Angle):
Thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die. ·
May 13 – American Civil War – Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with
Union General Sherman fighting
toward Atlanta. ·
May 15 – American Civil War – Battle of New Market:
Cadets from the Virginia
Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army,
forcing Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley. ·
May 18 – Civil War gold hoax:
The New York World and the New York Journal of
Commerce publish a fake proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln has issued a draft of
400,000 more soldiers. ·
May 20 ·
American Civil War – Battle of
Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred
Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory. ·
Australian
bushranger Ben Hall and
his gang escape from a shootout with police, after attempting to rob the Bang
Bang Hotel in Koorawatha,
New South Wales. ·
May 21 – The Russian Empire begins
the Ethnic cleansing
of Circassians. More than 1.5 million Circassians are driven from
their homeland to the Ottoman Empire, ending the Russo-Circassian War. ·
May 26 – Montana Territory is
organized out of parts of Washington Territory and Dakota Territory. ·
June –
The United
States Sanitary Commission's Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia takes place.[4] ·
June 5 – American Civil War – Battle of Piedmont:
Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army
at Piedmont, West
Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. ·
June 9 – American Civil War – Battle of Petersburg:
Union forces under General Grant and troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee battle for the last time. ·
June 10 – American Civil War: ·
Battle of Noonday
Creek: Confederate troops defeat Union forces, near Kennesaw, Georgia. ·
Battle of
Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford
Forrest defeat a much larger Union force, led by
General Samuel D. Sturgis,
in Mississippi. ·
June 12 – American Civil War – Battle of Cold
Harbor: General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their
positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south. ·
June 15 – Arlington
National Cemetery is established in the United States, when
200 acres (0.81 km2) of the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home (Arlington
House) are officially set aside as a military cemetery, by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. ·
June 18 – The Decree
of Extended Freedom of Trade introduces complete freedom of
trade in Sweden. ·
June 19 – American Civil War – Battle of
Cherbourg: Confederate
States Navy CSS Alabama is sunk in
a single-ship actionwith USS Kearsarge,
in the English Channel off
the coast of Cherbourg, France. ·
June 21 – New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends. ·
June 27 – American Civil War – Battle of
Kennesaw Mountain: Confederate troops defeat Union forces,
near Kennesaw, Georgia. ·
June 29 – Second Schleswig War –
The Battle of Als is
won by the Prussians under General Herwarth
von Bittenfeld, who occupy the island of Als after crossing the Alssund, between
the village of Sottrupskov and the Sandbjerg Estate, by night. Of 9,000 Danish
troops stationed there, a third are killed, wounded or captured.[5] July–September[edit] ·
July 4 – The University of
Bucharest is founded, in Austria-Hungary. American Civil War in 1864 ·
July 18 – President Lincoln issues a
true proclamation of conscription of 500,000 men, for the U.S. Civil War. ·
July 19 – The Third Battle of
Nanking climaxes, when the Taiping Heavenly
Kingdom capital of Nanking falls to an assault by Imperial Qing Dynasty forces, in the last major
action of the Taiping Rebellion in
China. There are probably more than a million troops in the battle, and the
Taiping army sustains at least 100,000 dead. ·
July 20 – American Civil War – Battle of
Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Confederate forces led by
General John Bell Hoodunsuccessfully
attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman. ·
July 22 – American Civil War – Battle of Atlanta:
Outside of Atlanta, Confederate General Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on
Union troops under General Sherman, on Bald Hill. ·
July 24 – American Civil War – Second Battle
of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by
General George Crook in
an effort to keep the Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley. ·
July 28 – American Civil War – Battle of Ezra
Church: Confederate troops, led by General Hood, make a third
unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces under General Sherman from
Atlanta. ·
July 29 – American Civil War:
Confederate spy Belle Boyd is
arrested by Union troops, and detained at the Old Capitol Prisonin
Washington, D.C. ·
July 30 – American Civil War – Battle of the Crater:
Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines, by exploding a large bomb
under their trenches. August 5: Battle of Mobile Bay ·
August 1 – The Elgin Watch Company is
founded in Elgin, Illinois. ·
August 5 – American Civil War – Battle of Mobile Bay:
At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla
through Confederate defenses, and seals one of the last major Southern ports. ·
August 10 – An undeclared Uruguayan War begins, when Uruguay refuses an ultimatum from
the Empire of Brazil. ·
August 13 – The first fish and chips shop perhaps opens in
London. ·
August 18 – American Civil War – Battle of Globe
Tavern: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant try to cut a
vital Confederate supply-line
into Petersburg, Virginia,
by attacking the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad, forcing the Confederates to use wagons. ·
August 22 – The First Geneva
Convention, for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded
in Armies in the Field, is signed in Geneva by 12 European states, under the
auspices of the International
Committee for Relief to the Wounded (predecessor of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement). August 22: Signing of the First Geneva
Convention ·
August 31 – American Civil War:
Union forces, led by General William T. Sherman,
launch an assault on Atlanta. ·
American Civil War:
Confederate General Hood evacuates Atlanta, after a 4-month siege mounted by
Union General Sherman. ·
Charlottetown
Conference: Delegates from the Canadian colonies meet, to
discuss Canadian
Confederation. ·
September 2 – American Civil War:
Union forces under General Sherman enter Atlanta, a day after the Confederate
defenders fled the city. ·
September 5–6 – Bombardment of
Shimonoseki: An American, British, Dutch and French alliance engages the
powerful feudal Japanese warlord or daimyō Lord Mōri Takachika,
of the Chōshū clan,
based in Shimonoseki, Japan. ·
September 7 – American Civil War:
Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. ·
September 16 – Pope Pius IX establishes the Diocese of Gozo. ·
September 17 – American Civil War:
The Second Battle of Cabin Creek is fought in Indian Territory. ·
September 28 – The International
Workingmen's Association is founded in London.[6] October–December[edit] ·
October 2 – American Civil War – First Battle of
Saltville: Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia,
but are defeated by Confederate troops. ·
October 5 – A cyclone kills 70,000 in Calcutta, India. ·
October 9 – American Civil War – Battle of Tom's
Brook: Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat
Confederate forces at Tom's Brook,
Virginia. ·
October 10 – The Quebec Conference begins,
to discuss plans for the creation of a Dominion of Canada.[7] ·
October 12 – Uruguayan War: Forces of the Empire of Brazil invade Uruguay, in support of Venancio Flores' Colorado Party. ·
October 28 – American Civil War –
Second Battle of Fair Oaks: Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant
withdraw from Fair
Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses
around Richmond, Virginia. ·
The Second Schleswig War is
concluded. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration. ·
Helena, Montana, is founded, after
four prospectors (the
so-called Four Georgians)
discover gold at Last Chance Gulch;
it is their last and agreed final attempt for weeks, of trying to find gold
in the northern Rockies. ·
October 31 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state. ·
November 4 – American Civil War – Battle of
Johnsonville: At Johnsonville, Tennessee, troops under the command
of Confederate General Nathan Bedford
Forrestbombard a Union supply base with artillery, and destroy millions
of dollars worth of material. ·
November 7 – The capital of Idaho Territory is moved from Lewiston to Boise; North Idaho declares the move illegal,
and proposes secession. ·
November 8 – U.S.
presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected, in an
overwhelming victory over George B. McClellan. ·
November 12 – Hostilities in the Paraguayan War open, with the
Paraguayan ship Tacuarí capturing the Brazilian Marquês
de Olinda, in the Paraguay River. ·
November 15 – American Civil War – Sherman's
March to the Sea begins: Union General Sherman burns Atlanta
and starts to move south, living off the land, and causing extensive
devastation to crops and mills. ·
November 20 – The judicial
reform of Alexander II is launched in the Russian Empire. ·
November 22 – American Civil War – Sherman's
March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee, in an unsuccessful attempt to
draw Union General Sherman from Georgia. ·
November 25 – American Civil War:
A group of Confederate operatives, calling themselves the Confederate
Army of Manhattan, starts fires in more than 20 locations, in an
unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City. ·
November 29 – American Indian Wars – Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers, led by
Colonel John Chivington,
massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants at Sand Creek,
Colorado (where they had been given permission to camp); many of the dead are
subsequently mutilated. Nov.15: Sherman's
March to the Sea ·
November 30 – American Civil War – Second Battle
of Franklin: The Confederate Army of Tennessee,
led by General Hood, mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on
Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood
loses 6 generals and almost a third of his troops). ·
December 1 – The Great Fire of
Brisbane breaks out in Australia. ·
December 4 – American Civil War – Sherman's
March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia,
forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent
troops, led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler, from interfering with Union
General Sherman's campaign of destroying a wide swath of the South, on his
march to Savannah;
Union forces suffer more than 3 times the casualties as the Confederates,
however. ·
James Clerk Maxwell presents
his paper, A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field,
to the Royal Society in
London, treating light as an electromagnetic wave.[8] ·
Syllabus errorum: Pope Pius IX condemns theological
liberalism as an error, and claims the supremacy of Roman Catholic Church
authority over civil society. He also condemns rationalism and socialism. ·
The Clifton
Suspension Bridge across the River Avon (Bristol) in
England, designed by Isambard Kingdom
Brunel and completed as a memorial to him, opens to traffic.[6] ·
December 13 – Paraguayan War: Paraguay formally declares war on
the Empire of Brazil,
in support of the Uruguayan
National Party. The war continues to 1870,
with around 300,000 Paraguayan deaths. ·
December 15–16 – American Civil War – Battle of Nashville:
Union forces decisively defeat the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Date unknown[edit] ·
The
Dutch conquer southern Sumatra. ·
The
Second Anglo-Ashanti War ends. ·
Asa Mercer travels from Seattle to the U.S. East Coast, and
recruits 11 Mercer Girls,
potential wives for men on the West Coast. ·
The
first Quanjude Peking Roast Duck restaurant
opens on Qianmen Street in Peking, China. Births[edit] January–March[edit] Richard Strauss, 1918 ·
Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer
(d. 1946) ·
Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (d. 1957) ·
January 8 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892) ·
January 9 – Alvah Curtis Roebuck,
American businessman (d. 1948) ·
January 10 – Annie Lowrie
Alexander American physician, educator (d. 1929) ·
January 11 – Henry Marshall Tory,
Canadian university founder (d. 1947) ·
January 13 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928) ·
January 21 – Israel Zangwill, British novelist,
playwright (d. 1926) ·
January 24 – Marguerite Durand,
French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d. 1936) ·
January 26 – József Pusztai Slovene writer, poet, journalist in
Hungary (d. 1934) ·
January 28 – Herbert Akroyd
Stuart, English mechanical engineer, inventor (d. 1927) ·
February 4 – James
Fenton, Australian politician (d. 1950) ·
February 7 – Arthur Collins,
early American recording artist (d. 1933) ·
February 11 – Louis Bouveault, French chemist (d. 1909) ·
February 20 – Henry
Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, British general (d. 1925) ·
March 4 – David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect
(d. 1940) ·
March 12 – W. H. R. Rivers, English psychiatrist
(d. 1922) ·
March 13 – Alexej von Jawlensky,
Russian expressionist painter (d. 1941) ·
March 14 – Casey Jones, American railway engineer
(d. 1900) ·
March 15 – Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer
(d. 1935) ·
March 17 – Joseph Baptista, Indian Home
Rule Movement founder (d. 1930) ·
March 19 ·
Charles Marion
Russell, American artist (d. 1926) ·
Mahatma Hansraj, Indian educationist, Arya Samaj leader (d. 1938) ·
March 23 – Sándor
Simonyi-Semadam, 26th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1946) April–June[edit] ·
April 6 – William Bate Hardy,
English biologist, food scientist (d. 1934) ·
April 10 ·
Michael Mayr, 2nd Chancellor of Austria
(d. 1922) ·
Tully Marshall, American actor (d. 1943) ·
April 11 – Johanna
Elberskirchen, German feminist (d. 1943) ·
April 12 – Rosslyn
Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss, British admiral (d. 1933) ·
April 14 – Artur Văitoianu,
27th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1956) ·
April 16 – Rose Talbot Bullard,
American medical doctor, professor (d. 1915) ·
April 21 – Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920) ·
May 4 – Marie Booth, third daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1937) ·
May 5 – Sir Henry
Wilson, 1st Baronet, British field marshal, politician (d. 1922) ·
May 10 – Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer (d. 1946) ·
May 15 – Vilhelm Hammershøi,
Danish painter (d. 1916) ·
May 25 – Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg,
British-born German aristocrat, aviation enthusiast (d. 1927,
officially declared dead February 1928) ·
June 2 – Wilhelm Souchon, German admiral (d. 1946) ·
June 3 – Ransom E. Olds, American automotive pioneer
(d. 1950) ·
June 10 – Ninian Comper, British architect (d. 1960) ·
June 11 – Richard Strauss, German composer (d. 1949) ·
June 13 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator,
historian (d. 1939) ·
June 14 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist,
neuropathologist (d. 1915) ·
June 22 – Hermann Minkowski,
German mathematician (d. 1909) ·
June 25 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1941) ·
June 30 – Frederick Bligh Bond,
English architect (d. 1945) July–September[edit] ·
July 11 – Petar Danov, Bulgarian
spiritual teacher (d. 1944) ·
July 12 – George Washington
Carver, African-American botanist (d. 1943) ·
July 13 – John Jacob Astor IV,
American businessman, inventor (d. 1912) ·
July 15 – Marie Tempest, English stage, film actress
(d. 1942) ·
July 20 ·
Erik Axel Karlfeldt,
Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1931) ·
Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist,
anatomist (d. 1913) ·
July 21 – Frances
Folsom Cleveland Preston, First
Lady of the United States (d. 1947) ·
July 23 – Apolinario Mabini,
Filipino political theoretician, Prime Minister (d. 1903) ·
August 9 – Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (d. 1939) ·
August 20 – Ion I. C.
Brătianu, 5-time Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1927) ·
August 23 – Eleftherios
Venizelos, 7-time Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936) ·
September 14 – Robert
Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician,
diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1958) October–December[edit] ·
October 1 – Emma Sheridan Fry,
American actress and playwright (d. 1936) ·
October 5 – Louis Lumière, French inventor (d. 1948) ·
October 10 – T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman
from New Jersey (d. 1924) ·
October 25 – Alexander
Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956) ·
October 31 – Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of
Canterbury (d. 1945) ·
November 5 – Jessie Ralph, American actress (d. 1944) ·
November 1 – Grand
Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (d. 1918) ·
November 11 – Alfred Hermann Fried,
Austrian writer, pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921) ·
November 13 – Bishop James Cannon Jr., American religious
and temperance movement leader
(d. 1944) ·
November 16 – Stéphane Javelle,
French astronomer (d. 1917) ·
November 23 – Henry Bourne Joy, American business leader
(d. 1936) ·
November 24 – Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901) ·
November 26 – Edward Higgins, 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947) ·
Alberico Albricci,
Italian general (d. 1936) ·
William S. Hart, American film actor, film
director, and writer (d. 1946) ·
December 8 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor (d. 1943) ·
December 12 – Paul Elmer More, American critic, essayist
(d. 1937) ·
December 14 – Frank Campeau, American actor (d. 1943) ·
December 23 – Princess
Zorka of Montenegro (d. 1890) ·
December 25 – Thomas Cahill,
American soccer coach (d. 1951) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Rida Pasha al-Rikabi,
2-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1943) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 13 – Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826) ·
January 27 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist
architect, painter and writer (b. 1784) ·
February 7 – Vuk
Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian linguist, major reformer of
the Serbian language (b. 1787) ·
February 22 – James Sewall Reed,
U.S. Army officer (in battle) (b. 1832) ·
February 25 – Anna Harrison, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1775) ·
March 10 – King Maximilian II of
Bavaria (b. 1811) ·
March 28 – Princess
Louise Charlotte of Denmark (b. 1789) ·
April 4 – Joseph Pitty
Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808) ·
April 14 – Charles Lot Church,
Nova Scotia politician (b. 1777) ·
May 2 – Giacomo Meyerbeer,
German composer (b. 1791) ·
May 5 – Elizabeth Andrew
Warren, Cornish botanist, marine algolologist (b. 1786) ·
May 9 – John Sedgwick, Union general, American Civil
War (b. 1813) ·
May 12 – J. E. B. Stuart, Confederate cavalry
general, American Civil War (b. 1833) ·
May 19 – Nathaniel Hawthorne,
American author (b. 1804) ·
May 20 – John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (b. 1793) ·
June 1 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1813) ·
June 13 – Henryk
Dembiński, Polish engineer (b. 1791) ·
June 14 – Patrick Kelly,
U.S. Army officer (in battle) (b. c. 1822) ·
June 15 – William E. Jones, Confederate general (in
battle) (b. 1824) July–December[edit] ·
August 3 – Jakob Walter, German stonemason, common draftee (b. 1788) ·
August 4 – David Hansemann, Prussian politician
(b. 1790) ·
August 19 – Trương
Định, Vietnamese leader (suicide) (b. 1820) ·
September 3 – Emil Oskar Nobel, younger brother of Alfred Nobel (killed in an explosion)
(b. 1843) ·
October 1 – Juan José Flores, President of Ecuador (b. 1800) ·
October 12 – Roger Taney, United States Supreme Court
Justice (b. 1777) ·
November 6 – Tuanku Imam Bonjol,
Indonesian religious and military leader (b. 1772) ·
November 20 – Albert Newsam, American artist (b. 1809) ·
John
Adams, Confederate Army officer (killed in action) (b. 1825) ·
Patrick Cleburne, Irish soldier, Confederate
general (killed in action) (b. 1828) ·
States Rights Gist,
Confederate General (killed in action) (b. 1831) ·
December 1 – William L. Dayton –
United States Minister to France (b. 1807) ·
December 8 – George Boole, English mathematician,
philosopher (b. 1815) ·
December 21 – Archduke Louis
of Austria (b. 1784) ·
December 23 – James Bronterre
O'Brien, British Chartist (b. 1804) ·
December 24 – Mary Baker (née
Willcocks), aka Princess Caraboo (b. 1791) ·
December 31 – George M. Dallas, U.S. Senator, 11th Vice
President of the United States (b. 1792) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Fu Shanxiang, Chinese scholar, Chancellor
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