- Oct 1 5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC
- Oct 1 Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens
Thanksgiving Day Designated
Oct 3 US President Abraham Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
- Oct 5 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
- Oct 6 Battle at Baxter Springs, Kansas
- Oct 6 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
- Oct 9 Battle of Brady Station, Virginia (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
- Oct 10 Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
- Oct 11 Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee
- Oct 13 Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties)
- Oct 14 Battle at Bristoe Station, Virginia (about 2000 casualties)
- Oct 15 Cliff House opens in San Francisco, 1st of many on the site
- Oct 16 Grant is given command of Union forces in West
- Oct 18 Battle of Charlestown, WV
- Oct 18 Boulaq Museum is inaugurated in Cairo with French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette as director - the basis of the Egyptian National Museum [1]
- Oct 19 Battle of Buckland Mills, Virginia
- Oct 26 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer, splitting with rugby
- Oct 26 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross
- Oct 27 Dutch railway to Harlingen opens
- Oct 27 First Sanitation Fair to raise funds for US Civil War relief opens in Chicago organized by Mary Ashton Livermore
- Oct 28 Battle at Wauhatchie, Georgia: 865 killed or injured
- Oct 29 International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
- Oct 31 The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato
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