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Events
- January 21 - Maori Wars:
The Tauranga Campaign starts.
- February 27 - American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
- March 10 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as
Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
- 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.
- 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.
- May 11 - American Civil War: Battle of Yellow
Tavern - Confederate General JEB 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, Virginia - Students from the
Virginia Military Institute fight alongside
the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
- June 15 - Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres of Arlington Mansion are officially
set-aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
- June 21 - Maori Wars: The
Tauranga Campaign ends.
- May 20 - American Civil War: Battle of Bermuda
Hundred - In Virginia, 3,000 Confederates and l,200 Union troops are killed in this Union victory.
- May 26 - Montana is organized as a
United States
territory.
- June 5 - American
Civil War: Battle of Piedmont - Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
- June 10 - American Civil War: 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 - American Civil War: Battle of Petersburg begins - Union forces
under General Ulysses S. Grant and troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee battle for the last time.
- July 20 - American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek - Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
- July 22 - American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta - Outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful
attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
- July 24 - American Civil War: 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
begins - Confederate troops led by General John Bell Hood make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces under General
William T. Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia.
- July 29 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
- 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 - American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay
begins - 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 18 - American Civil War: Battle of Weldon
Railroad - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant try to
cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg,
Virginia, by attacking the Weldon Railroad forcing the Confederates to use wagons.
- August 22 - International Red
Cross founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
- September 1 - American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood
evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four month siege mounted by Union General William T. Sherman.
- September 1 - 8 - Delegates from the Canadian colonies meet at the
Charlottetown Conference to discuss Canadian Confederation.
- September 2 - American Civil War: Union forces under General William T.
Sherman enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
- September 7 - American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia is evacuated on orders
of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
- October 2 - American Civil War: Battle of Saltville - Union
forces attack Saltville, Virginia but are defeated by
Confederate troops.
- 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 28 - American Civil War: 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.
- October 30 - Second war of Schleswig concluded. Duke Frederick and the Danish
Crown recognize Prussia's and
Austria's annexation of Schleswig,
Holstein and Lauenburg.
- October 30 - Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance
Gulch."
- 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 Forrest bombard a Union supply base with
artillery and destroy millions of dollars in materiel.
- November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
- November 15 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea begins - Union General
Sherman burns Atlanta and starts to move south, destroying everything in his path in order to punish the Confederates for
starting the war.
- 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 29 - Indian
Wars: Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John
Chivington massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado (where they had been given permission to camp).
- November 30 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin - The Army of
Tennessee led by General Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of
his troops).
- 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 the Gulf of Mexico (Union forces did suffer more than three times the casualties as the Confederates,
however).
Year in topic
Births
- January 8 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland.
- January 13 -- Wilhelm
Wien, physicist
- March 13 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian impressionist painter
- March 19 - Charles Marion Russell, artist (+ 1926)
- April 21 - Max Weber,
sociologist (+ 1920)
- July 13 - John
Jacob Astor IV, American businessman, inventor (+ 1912)
- October 25 - Alexander Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer (+ 1956)
- November 24 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
- December 6 - William S. Hart, silent film star (+ 1946)
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