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- July 1
- ---Marriage of Princess Alice , second daughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Ludwig Of Hesse And By Rhine .
- --- United States president Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railway Acts authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad .
- --- Russian State Library is founded
- July 2 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Morrill Land Grant Act into law, creating land-grant colleges to teach agricultural and mechanical sciences across the United States.
- July 4 - Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll ) extemporises the story that becomes '' Alice's Adventures In Wonderland '' for 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a Rowing Boat trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow .
- becomes the first United States Navy Rear Admiral .
- - At Buffington Island in Ohio , Confederate General John Hunt Morgan 's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River .
- takes command of the Union Army.
- - Union forces force Confederate troops to march south, near Taberville, Missouri .
- - Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana , Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
- ironclad CSS ''Arkansas'' is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with the USS ''Essex'' near Baton Rouge, Louisiana .
- - At Cedar Mountain, Virginia , Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope .
- August 14 - Abraham Lincoln meets with a group of prominent African-Americans - the first time a President has done so. He suggests Black people should migrate to Africa or Central America , but this advice is rejected.
- (Sioux) uprising begins in Minnesota as desperate Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River . They will be overwhelmed by the US military six weeks later.
- , Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm , killing white settlers along the way.
- August 21 - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
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- - Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his forces in an attack on retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia , driving them away.
- reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope 's disastrous defeat at the Battle Of Second Bull Run .
- 's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army Of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia , into Maryland .
- - Confederates capture the Union garrison at Harper's Ferry , Virginia .
- - Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Sharpsburg, Maryland , in the bloodiest day in U.S. history (with over 22,000 casualties).
- - Union troops under Major General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Major General Sterling Price at Iuka, Mississippi .
- September 22
- --- Otto Von Bismarck becomes prime minister of Prussia .
- --- by President Abraham Lincoln
- September 29 - Bismarck's "Blood and Iron" speech
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- December 1 - In his State Of The Union Address , President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation .
- December 2 - First US Navy Hospital Ship s enter service.
- suffers massive casualties and abandons attempts to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia .
- December 18 - General Order No. 11 is issued by General Ulysses S. Grant .
- December 26 - William D. Duly hangs 38 Dakota Sioux in Minnesota .
- , outnumbered 2 to 1, results in 6 times as many Union casualties, defeating several assaults coordinated by William T. Sherman , losing commander.
- December 30 - The USS ''Monitor'' sinks off Cape Hatteras , North Carolina .
- signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two); meanwhile, the Battle Of Stones River is fought near Murfreesboro, Tennessee .
- December Peruvian slave-raiders land on Easter Island , the beginning of a Near Genocide decade on the island.
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- January 15 - Loie Fuller , American dancer (d. 1928 )
- January 23 - David Hilbert , German mathematician (d. 1943 )
- January 24 - Edith Wharton , American writer (d. 1937 )
- January 29 - Frederick Delius , English composer (d. 1934 )
- February 4 - George Ernest Morrison , Australian adventurer and journalist (d. 1920 )
- February 7 - Bernard Ralph Maybeck , American architect (d. 1957 )
- March 4 - Jacob Robert Emden , Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940 )
- March 8 - George Frederick Phillips , Canadian-born military hero (d. 1904 )
- March 13 - Jane Delano , American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service (d. 1919 )
- March 17 - Silvio Gesell , economist (d. 1930 )
- March 25 - William E. Johnson , American leader of Anti-Saloon League (d. 1950 )
- March 28 - Aristide Briand , French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932 )
- April 2 - Nicholas M. Butler , American president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1947 )
- April 6 - Georges Darien , French writer (d. 1921 )
- April 11 - Charles Evans Hughes , American jurist and statesman (d. 1948 )
- April 26 - Edmund Charles Tarbell , American artist (d. 1938 )
- May 15 - Arthur Schnitzler , Austrian dramatist and narrator (d. 1931 )
- May 27 - John Kendrick Bangs , American author and satirist (d. 1922 )
- June 5 - Allvar Gullstrand , Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1930 )
- June 7 - Philipp Lenard , Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947 )
- June 21 - Damrong Rajanubhab , Thai prince and historian (d. 1943 )
- June 27 - May Irwin , Canadian actress and singer (d. 1938 )
- July 2 - William Henry Bragg , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942 )
- July 14 - Gustav Klimt , Austrian artist (d. 1918 )
- July 16 - Ida B. Wells , American journalist, suffragist, and anti-lynching crusader (d. 1931 )
- August 5 - Joseph Carey Merrick , English oddity (d. 1890 )
- August 21 - Emilio Salgari , Italian writer (d. 1911 )
- August 22 - Claude Debussy , French composer (d. 1918 )
- August 26 - Herbert Booth , the third son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926 )
- August 29
- --- Andrew Fisher , fifth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1928 )
- --- Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949 )
- September 11 - O. Henry , American writer (d. 1910 )
- September 25 - Billy Hughes , seventh Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1952 )
- October 3 - Johnny Briggs , English cricketer (d. 1902 )
- October 19 - Auguste Lumière , French inventor (d. 1954 )
- October 26 - Thomas J. Preston, Jr. , Professor of Archeology at Princeton University (d. 1955 ); he married Frances Cleveland , widow of President Grover Cleveland .
- November 3 - Henry George, Jr. , American politician (d. 1916 )
- November 14 - George Washington Vanderbilt II , American businessman (d. 1914 )
- November 15 - Gerhart Hauptmann , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946 )
- November 16 - Charles Turner , Australian cricketer (d. 1944 )
- November 19 - Billy Sunday , American baseball player, evangelist, prohibitionist (d. 1935 )
- December 8 - Georges Feydeau , French playwright (d. 1921 )
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