Year (''' MDCCCLXIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- . The Prussian army fielding 10,000 men defeats the Danish defending army of 9,200 at Dybbøl Mill after an artillery bombardment from April 7 to April 18.
- April 22 - The U.S. 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 .
- begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia .
- , under General Ulysses S. Grant , breaks off from the Battle Of The Wilderness and moves southwards.
- - Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia .
- : The "Bloody Angle" - thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die.
- - the Battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta .
- , Virginia - Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley .
- May 18 - Civil War Gold Hoax - ''New York World'' and the ''New York Journal of Commerce'' publish a fake proclamation that president Abraham Lincoln has issued a draft of 400,000 more soldiers
- - In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign , 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory
- May 28 - Montana is organized as a United States Territory out of parts of Washington Territory and Dakota Territory, and is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
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: Battle Of Mobile Bay .]]
- July 18 - President Lincoln issues a true proclamation of conscription of 500.000 men for the US Civil War
- - Near Atlanta, Georgia , Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman .
- - Outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General Sherman on Bald Hill.
- - Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep the Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.
- begins - Confederate troops led by General Hood make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces under General Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia.
- is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC .
- - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
- August 1 - Foundation of Elgin Watch Company in Elgin, Illinois .
- 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 13 - The first Fish And Chips shop opens in London .
- - 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 - First Geneva Convention ; International Red Cross is founded.
- forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia .
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- - Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia but are defeated by Confederate troops.
- October 5 – Cyclone kills 70,000 in Calcutta , India
- - Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia .
- 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. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig , Holstein and Lauenburg , which come under Prussia n and Austria n administration.
- --- Helena, Montana is founded after four Prospector s, the so-called "Four Georgians" discover Gold at "Last Chance Gulch;" it was their last and agreed final attempt at weeks of trying to find gold in the northern Rockies.
- October 31 - Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. State .
- - 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 7 - Capital of Idaho Territory is moved from Lewiston to Boise ; North Idaho declares the move illegal and proposes Secession .
- is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George B. McClellan .
- begins - Union General Sherman burns Atlanta and starts to move south, causing extensive devastation to crops and mills and living off the land.
- November 20 - Judicial Reform Of Alexander II is launched in Imperial Russia .
- in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General Sherman from Georgia.
- starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City .
- - 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).
: Sherman's March To The Sea .]]
- , 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 Savannah, GA (Union forces did suffer more than three times the casualties as the Confederates, however).
- January 1 - Alfred Stieglitz , American photographer (d. 1946 )
- January 1 - Qi Baishi , Chinese painter (d. 1957 )
- January 8 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke Of Clarence (d. 1892 )
- January 13 - Wilhelm Wien , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928 )
- January 24 - Marguerite Durand , French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d. 1936 )
- February 7 - Arthur Collins , American Singer who recorded many early songs.(d. 1933 )
- March 4 - David W. Taylor , U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940 )
- March 12 - William Halse Rivers Rivers , English doctor (d. 1922 )
- March 13 - Alexej Von Jawlensky , Russian expressionist painter (d. 1941 )
- March 14 - Casey Jones , American railway engineer (d. 1900 )
- March 15 - Johan Halvorsen , Norwegian composer (d. 1935 )
- March 19 - Charles Marion Russell , American artist (d. 1926 )
- April 21 - Max Weber , German sociologist (d. 1920 )
- May 4 - Marie Booth , the third daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1937 )
- May 10 - Léon Gaumont , French film pioneer (d. 1946 )
- May 15 - Vilhelm Hammershøi , Danish painter (d. 1916 )
- June 3 - Ransom E. Olds , automotive pioneer (d. 1950 )
- June 11 - Richard Strauss , German composer (d. 1949 )
- June 13 - Dwight B. Waldo , American educator and historian (d. 1939 )
- June 25 - Walther Nernst , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941 )
- July 11 - Petar Danov , Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944 )
- July 13 - John Jacob Astor IV , American businessman and inventor (d. 1912 )
- July 20 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )
- August 9 - Roman Dmowski , Polish politician (d. 1939 )
- September 14 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil Of Chelwood , English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1958 )
- October 10 - T. Frank Appleby , United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924 )
- October 25 - Alexander Gretchaninov , Russian composer (d. 1956 )
- October 31 - Cosmo Lang , Archbishop Of Canterbury (d. 1945 )
- November 11 - Alfred Hermann Fried , Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921 )
- November 13 - Bishop James Cannon Jr , American religious and Temperance Movement leader (d. 1944 )
- November 23 - Henry Bourne Joy , American business leader (d. 1936 )
- November 24 - Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec , French painter (d. 1901 )
- November 26 - Edward Higgins , the 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947 )
- December 6 - William S. Hart , American film actor (d. 1946 )
- December 12 - Paul Elmer More , American critic and essayist (d. 1937 )
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