1864

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s

Years: 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 - 1864 - 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869

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Events

• 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" needs to 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.
• 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[?].
• August 22 - International Red Cross founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
• October 31 - Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
• November - Abraham Lincoln defeats George B. McClellan in the U.S. presidential election

• James Clerk Maxwell discovers Microwaves
• First Geneva Convention
• Danewerk destroyed

Literature, Arts, Sciences, Philosophy

• Vatican, Syllabus errorum[?]. Pope Pius IX[?] condemns theological liberalism as an error and claims for the supremacy of RC Church authority over the civil society.
• 1864 in literature:

Births

• January 13 -- Wilhelm Wien, physicist
• March 13 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian impressionist painter
• March 19 - Charles Russell[?], artist (+ 1926)
• April 21 - Max Weber, sociologist (+ 1920)
• November 24 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter

Deaths

• January 13 - Stephen Foster, composer of Camptown Races, Oh! Susannah
• May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, author
• Roger Taney - United States Supreme Court Justice
• Tuanku Imam Bonjol - Indonesian religious and military leader

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