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- Aug 4 Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
Battle of Mobile Bay
Aug 5 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral David Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War)
- Aug 5 Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
- Aug 6 Confederate forces evacuate Fort Powell in Mobile Bay, Alabama
- Aug 7 Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia
- Aug 8 Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth
- Aug 8 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
- Aug 9 Siege of Fort Morgan, Alabama, by Union forces begins (Confederates surrender 23 August)
- Aug 13 Battle of Deep Bottom, Virginia (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill, Virginia
- Aug 14 -16] Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia
- Aug 14 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault
- Aug 15 US Civil War: Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 Yankee schooners
- Aug 16 Federal assault on 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
- Aug 16 Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
- Aug 18 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault
- Aug 18 Battle of Petersburg: Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of a 3 day battle
- Aug 19 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, Union forces attempt to destroy Weldon Railroad Confederate supply route (successful 21 Ausgust)
- Aug 20 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3,900 casualties)
- Aug 21 Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
- Aug 21 Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, Kentucky
- Aug 21 Battle of Summit Point, Virginia
- Aug 21 Major General Nathan B. Forrest's assault on Memphis, Tennessee
First Geneva Convention
Aug 22 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations
- Aug 23 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
- Aug 25 Battle of Petersburg: Battle of Ream's Station
- Aug 25 Combination rail & ferry service available from San Francisco to Alameda
- Aug 29 British astronomer William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
- Aug 31 Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, 1900 casualties
- Sep 1 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties
- Sep 1 Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA
Battle of Atlanta
Sep 2 US Civil War: Union General William T. Sherman captures and occupy Atlanta, Georgia, ending the Atlanta Campaign [1]
- Sep 3 Battle of Berryville, Virginia, Confederate forces retreat in face of Union strength
- Sep 3 US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Straits of Simonoseki
- Sep 4 Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
- Sep 5 Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
- Sep 5 British, French & Dutch fleets attack Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
- Sep 16 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. wins third title; beats fellow Scot Andrew Strath by 2 strokes
- Sep 16 US Civil War: Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid)
- Sep 17 American Civil War: Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign
- Sep 18 Battle of Martinsburg, Virginia
- Sep 18 Hood's Tennessee campaign begins (also called The Franklin–Nashville Campaign), American Civil War
- Sep 19 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia [Opequon], large bloody battle with the Union army defeating Confederate force with over 9,000 casualties
- Sep 22 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia - Confederate General Jubal Early Retreats to Brown's Gap after advance by Union army under General Philip Sheridan
- Sep 27 Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft Davidson) Missouri: 1700 killed or injured
Centralia Massacre
Sep 27 Centralia Massacre: Pro-Confederate guerrillas led by William T. Anderson with Jesse James loot Centralia and attack a train on the North Missouri Railroad, executing 24 Union soldiers. Later the same day the guerillas defeat the newly formed 39th Missouri Infantry Regiment, killing 123 of its 147 solders.
- Sep 28 -30) Battle of Fort Harrison Virginia (Chaffin's Farm New Market Heights)
- Sep 29 Battle of Chaffin's Farm and New Market Heights in Henrico County, Virginia
- Sep 30 13 Black soldiers among the first Black soldiers to be honored with US Medal of Honor for leading charges against Confederate fortifications during Battle of New Market Heights, Virginia
- Sep 30 Battle of Preble's Farm Virginia (Poplar Springs Church)
- Oct 1 Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed
- Oct 1 John Summerfield Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for US President Abraham Lincoln
- Oct 2 Battle of Saltville, Virginia
- Oct 4 National black convention meets in Syracuse, New York
- Oct 4 New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
- Oct 5 Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South
- Oct 5 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone, approx 60,000 die
- Oct 7 -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, Virginia
- Oct 7 Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor, Brazil - CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett
Battle of Tom's Brook
Oct 9 Battle of Tom's Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by General George A. Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions
- Oct 11 Campina Grande, Brazil was established as a city
- Oct 11 Slavery abolished in Maryland
Brazil Invades Uruguay
Oct 12 Brazilian troops under the command of Gen. João Propício Mena Barreto invade Uruguay in a prelude to the War of the Triple Alliance
- Oct 13 Battle at Darbytown Road, Virginia (337 casualties)
- Oct 13 Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery
- Oct 15 Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri
- Oct 19 Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St Albans, Vermont
- Oct 19 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Confederate attackers
- Oct 19 US Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to Major General
- Oct 21 Battle of Westport, MO (Kansas City)
- Oct 23 Battle of Westport, Missouri: Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price
- Oct 25 Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek)
Ambush of Bloody Bill
Oct 26 Union troops ambush and kill Bill William T. Anderson known as "Bloody Bill" near Albany, Missouri
- Oct 27 Battle of Boydton Plank Road, VA (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad)
Sinking of the CSS Albemarle
Oct 27 Confederate ship CSS Albemarle torpedoed and sunk by a spar torpedo mounted on a steam launch commanded by William B. Cushing
- Oct 27 Second Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia near Richmond
- Oct 28 Battle of Wauhatchie, Tennessee
- Oct 28 Second Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends with 1554 casualties
- Oct 28 Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
- Oct 29 Greek parliament accepts new Constitution
- Oct 30 Helena, Montana's capital, founded
- Oct 30 Treaty of Vienna signed to end the Second Schleswig War - Denmark loses control of Schleswig to Prussia, and of Holstein to Austria
- Oct 31 Nevada admitted as 36th state of the Union
- Nov 4 Battle at Reynoldsburg Island near Johnsonville, Tennessee: Confederate troops bombard Union supplies and fleet destroying four gunboats
- Nov 4 Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee
- Nov 6 Battle of Droop Mountain, West Virginia (Averell's Raid)
- Nov 7 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
Lincoln's Second Term
Nov 8 Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President
- Nov 9 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, British Columbia to a foreign country
- Nov 9 Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
- Nov 11 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia
- Nov 11 Skirmish at Shoal Creek, AL
- Nov 13 The new Constitution of Greece adopted
- Nov 15 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
- Nov 15 Union Major General Sherman leaves Atlanta on his "March to the Sea"
- Nov 16 Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia
- Nov 21 -22] Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia
- Nov 22 American Civil War Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
- Nov 22 Union General O Howard orders plunderers be shot to death
- Nov 23 -25] Battle at Ball's Ferry, Georgia (30 casualties)
- Nov 25 Confederate plot to burn New York city fails
- Nov 25 Confederate retreat at Sandersville, Georgia
- Nov 26 Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
- Nov 26 Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia
- Nov 27 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia
- Nov 28 3rd day of Battles at Waynesboro/Jones's Plantation, Georgia
- Nov 28 US Civil War: Battle of New Creek, West Virginia (Rosser's Raid, Ft Kelly)
- Nov 29 4th & last day of skirmishes at Waynesboro, Georgia
- Nov 29 Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee (Thomason's Station), Confederate attack on Union forces fails
- Nov 29 Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye
- Nov 30 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualties
- Nov 30 Battle of Honey Hill, South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead, 665 wounded
- Dec 1 Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, Tennessee to Saltville, Virginia
- Dec 1 Skirmish at Millen Brutal, Georgia
- Dec 2 Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
- Dec 3 Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia
- Dec 4 Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek), Georgia
- Dec 4 Romanian Jews are forbidden to practise law
- Dec 6 Battle of Deveaux's Neck, South Carolina
- Dec 7 Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia
A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field
Dec 8 James Clerk Maxwell's paper "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" is 1st read by the Royal Society in London (published by the Royal Society 1865)
- Dec 8 Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
Clifton Suspension Bridge,
Dec 8 The Clifton Suspension Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is finally opened in Bristol, England, 5 years after his death
- Dec 10 General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
- Dec 13 Battle of Fort McAllister, Georgia
- Dec 13 War of the Triple Alliance: Paraguay officially declares war on Brazil, invades the next day
- Dec 14 War of the Triple Alliance: Paraguay invades the Brazilian province of Mato Grosso
- Dec 15 Battle of Nashville, Tennessee: Union forces under General George Thomas shatters General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee
- Dec 15 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, Virginia
- Dec 16 Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 causalities
- Dec 20 -Dec 27th] Battle of Ft Fisher, NC
- Dec 21 US Union General Sherman captures Savannah, Georgia, which surrenders to him, at the end of his March To the Sea Campaign
- Dec 24 Battle of Gordonsville, Virginia
- Dec 28 Battle of Egypt Station, Mississippi
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