Notable Historical Events - 1862
1862 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st US income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000) |
Jan 1 |
Battle of Ft McRee, FL Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry) |
Jan 3 |
Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester |
Jan 4 |
Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath |
Jan 7 |
Battle of Manassas Junction, VA |
Jan 7 |
Romney Campaign; Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV |
Jan 9 |
The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe arrives at Victoria Docks, London, England aboard the Elizabeth Watts |
Jan 10 |
Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek) |
Jan 10 |
Battle of Romney, WV |
Jan 17 |
-Jan 22nd) BBT Ft Henry, TN by USS Lexington |
Jan 18 |
Confederate Territory of Arizona forms |
Jan 19 |
Battle of Mill Springs, KY (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads) |
Jan 22 |
Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20 |
Jan 23 |
Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, California imports 10,000 grape vine cuttings |
Jan 24 |
Romanian principality arises under King Alexander Cuza |
Jan 24 |
Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania. |
Jan 26 |
Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive, General George McClellan ignores order |
Jan 30 |
USS Monitor, the US Navy's 1st ironclad warship launched |
Jan 31 |
Astronomer Alvan Graham Clark makes first observation of Sirius B (first known white dwarf star) in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts while testing his new telescope |
Feb 1 |
Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic" |
Feb 6 |
General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee |
Feb 6 |
American Civil Was; naval engagement on Tennessee River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle |
Feb 6 |
Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi |
Feb 7 |
Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC |
Feb 8 |
Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound |
Feb 8 |
Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London |
Feb 10 |
Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms |
Feb 13 |
-Feb 16th) Siege of Ft Donelson TN |
Feb 14 |
Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut |
Feb 15 |
Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee |
Feb 16 |
Ft Donelson captured by General Ulysses S. Grant (1,400 confederates surrender) |
Feb 21 |
Confederate Constitution & presidency are declared permanent |
Feb 21 |
Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM |
Feb 25 |
Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing |
Feb 25 |
Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln |
Feb 26 |
Battle of Woodburn, KY |
Feb 28 |
Opera "La Reine de Saba," premieres in Paris |
Mar 3 |
Union forces under General Pope lay siege to New Madrid, Missouri (US Civil War) |
Mar 5 |
Union troops under brig-gen Wright occupy Fernandina Florida |
Mar 6 |
Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern) |
Mar 7 |
Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch & McIntosh killed |
Mar 8 |
Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal |
Mar 8 |
Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched |
Mar 8 |
Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor |
Mar 9 |
USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads |
Mar 10 |
Great Britain & France recognise independence of Zanzibar |
Mar 10 |
US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000) |
Mar 11 |
Lincoln removes George McClellen as general-in-chief |
Mar 11 |
12] Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief |
Mar 14 |
Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern |
Mar 15 |
Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN |
Mar 16 |
Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles |
Mar 22 |
San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation |
Mar 23 |
Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign |
Mar 26 |
Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch) |
Mar 28 |
Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia |
Mar 31 |
Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River |
Apr 1 |
Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA |
Apr 4 |
Battle of Yorktown (US Civil War) begins |
Apr 4 |
US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond during US Civil War |
Apr 5 |
Siege of Yorktown VA |
Apr 6 |
Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee |
Apr 7 |
Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls |
Apr 8 |
John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser |
Apr 11 |
Rebels surrender Ft Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender |
Apr 12 |
James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, GA |
Apr 12 |
Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia |
Apr 14 |
Battle of Ft Pillow TN |
Apr 16 |
Slavery abolished in District of Columbia |
Apr 16 |
American Confederate Congress approves conscription act for all white males (18-35 years) |
Apr 18 |
Battle of Ft Jackson, Ft St Philip & New Orlean's, LA |
Apr 20 |
The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. |
Apr 21 |
Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co |
Apr 21 |
Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne" premieres in Boston |
Apr 25 |
Capture of New Orleans LA by the Union under Flag Officer Farragut |
Apr 29 |
100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss |
Apr 29 |
New Orleans fell to Union forces during US Civil War |
Apr 30 |
Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes |
May 1 |
Major General Benjamin Butler's Union forces occupy New Orleans in US Civil War |
May 4 |
-5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia |
May 4 |
Yorktown, VA - Mcclellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains |
May 5 |
French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo |
May 5 |
Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA |
May 7 |
Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville) |
May 7 |
Much of Enschede, Netherlands, destroyed by fire |
May 8 |
Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va |
May 9 |
Battle of Farmington, MS |
May 9 |
Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS |
May 9 |
US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI |
May 10 |
Battle of Plum Run Bend, TN (Plum Point Bend) |
May 11 |
Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, VA |
May 12 |
Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana |
May 14 |
Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph |
May 15 |
-May 17] Battle of Princeton WV |
May 15 |
Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia |
May 15 |
Confederate ship Alabama launched as the Enrica at Birkenhead, England, where she had been built in secret |
May 15 |
US Department of Agriculture created |
May 15 |
Major Gen Benjamin F Butler issues order (New Orleans) that confederate women abusing union soldiers be treated as whores |
May 15 |
Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens |
May 16 |
Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile |
May 17 |
Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities |
May 19 |
US Homestead Act becomes law - provides cheap land for settlement of American West |
May 20 |
Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West |
May 23 |
Valley Campaign: Stonewall Jackson takes Fort Royal, Virginia |
May 24 |
Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time |
May 24 |
Westminster Bridge across Thames opens |
May 25 |
Battle of Winchester VA |
May 27 |
Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station) |
May 30 |
Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth |
May 31 |
Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks) |
Jun 1 |
2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties) |
Jun 1 |
General Robert E. Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at Seven Pines |
Jun 1 |
Slavery abolished in all US possessions |
Jun 2 |
Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate armies of North Virgin during US Civil War |
Jun 2 |
Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington DC |
Jun 4 |
Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow, Tennessee |
Jun 6 |
Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered |
Jun 6 |
Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry) |
Jun 6 |
Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA |
Jun 7 |
Skirmish at Union Church, VA (Peninsular) |
Jun 7 |
Gen B Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed & destroyed US flag on display over New Orleans Mint |
Jun 7 |
The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade. |
Jun 8 |
Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia |
Jun 9 |
Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp |
Jun 15 |
Gen Jeb Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan" |
Jun 19 |
Slavery outlawed in US territories |
Jun 20 |
Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated. |
Jun 25 |
Battle of Oak Grove, VA (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days |
Jun 26 |
Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia |
Jun 26 |
Day 2 of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville VA (Meadow Bridge) |
Jun 26 |
US Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope |
Jun 27 |
-28] Battle at Garnett's/Golding's Farms, Virginia |
Jun 27 |
Battle of Gaines' Mill, VA (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3 |
Jun 28 |
Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, VA |
Jun 29 |
Day 5 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station, Va |
Jun 30 |
Battle at Nelson's Farm/Glendale/Frayser's Farm, Virginia: Confederate assault attack. 6th day of 7 days battles US Civil War |
Jun 30 |
Gustave Flaubert completes "Salammbo" |
Jul 1 |
Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confederate superior power driven out |
Jul 1 |
Congress outlaws polygamy for the 1st time |
Jul 1 |
US Civil War: Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill (Poindexter's Farm) Union forces repel Confederate attack |
Jul 1 |
Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books |
Jul 1 |
Battle of Holly Spring, MS |
Jul 1 |
US Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco & on incomes over $600 (progressive rate) |
Jul 1 |
The Russian State Library is founded. |
Jul 2 |
Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges |
Jul 4 |
Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice Liddell on a family boat trip on the river Isis (Thames) in Oxford |
Jul 4 |
Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry) |
Jul 4 |
R Morgan's: Tomkinsville, KY to Somerset, KY [->JUL 28] |
Jul 6 |
Skirmish at Devall's Bluff, Arkansas (106 casualties) |
Jul 7 |
Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land |
Jul 8 |
Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret |
Jul 9 |
Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky |
Jul 10 |
US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad |
Jul 11 |
Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief |
Jul 12 |
Congress authorizes Medal of Honor |
Jul 12 |
Federal troops occupy Helena Arkansas |
Jul 13 |
Battle of Murfreesboro, TN (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150 |
Jul 15 |
CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R |
Jul 16 |
David Farragut is 1st Rear Admiral in US Navy |
Jul 17 |
Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition |
Jul 17 |
US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers |
Jul 17 |
United army officially divides corps |
Jul 17 |
R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, KY CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, TN |
Jul 18 |
Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces |
Jul 19 |
Forrest's 1st raid |
Jul 20 |
Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porter's & Poindexter's) [->SEP 20] US580 CS2866 |
Jul 27 |
Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die |
Jul 27 |
Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico |
Jul 28 |
Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo |
Aug 4 |
US government collects its 1st income tax |
Aug 5 |
Battle of Baton Rouge, LA |
Aug 6 |
Confederate ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack |
Aug 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain VA during US Civil War (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain) |
Aug 9 |
Berlioz' opera "Beatrice et Benedict" premieres in Baden-Baden |
Aug 10 |
Battle of Nueces River TX |
Aug 12 |
Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX |
Aug 14 |
Abraham Lincoln receives the 1st group of African Americans to confer with a US president |
Aug 17 |
Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky |
Aug 18 |
General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured |
Aug 18 |
Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed) |
Aug 21 |
The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates. |
Aug 22 |
Battle of Catlett's Station, VA |
Aug 22 |
Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely |
Aug 23 |
Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments) |
Aug 25 |
US Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves |
Aug 27 |
Battle of Cub Run, VA |
Aug 28 |
Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, VA |
Aug 28 |
Battle of Groveton, VA (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19] US7000 CS7000 |
Aug 28 |
Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC |
Aug 29 |
2nd Battle of Bull Run Va (Manassas) during US Civil War |
Aug 29 |
Battle of Aspromonte; Italian royal forces defeat rebels |
Aug 29 |
US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation |
Aug 30 |
Last day of 2nd Battle of Bull Run Va - Confederates beat Union forces |
Aug 30 |
Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY |
Aug 30 |
Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee |
Sep 1 |
Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties) |
Sep 1 |
Federal tax levied on tobacco |
Sep 4 |
General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops |
Sep 4 |
North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in San Francisco |
Sep 4 |
Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign) |
Sep 5 |
Lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland |
Sep 6 |
Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland |
Sep 9 |
Robert E. Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry |
Sep 12 |
Battle of Harpers Ferry VA |
Sep 14 |
Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates |
Sep 14 |
Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates |
Sep 14 |
Battle of Munfordsville KY |
Sep 14 |
Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia |
Sep 14 |
Skirmish at Fox's Gap, American Civil War |
Sep 15 |
Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV |
Sep 16 |
Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY |
Sep 17 |
Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md), 23,110 die |
Sep 17 |
Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals |
Sep 17 |
Battle of Mumfordville, KY-US Col J Wilder surrenders city |
Sep 17 |
American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war; 78 workers killed. |
Sep 18 |
Confederate armies officially divide into corps |
Sep 18 |
General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia |
Sep 19 |
-20] Battle at Blackford's Ford Virginia |
Sep 19 |
Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties) |
Sep 22 |
President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1 |
Sep 23 |
Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers |
Sep 24 |
Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal |
Sep 25 |
Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee |
Sep 30 |
First Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri |
Oct 3 |
-10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi |
Oct 3 |
Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky |
Oct 4 |
Battle of Corinth ends |
Oct 5 |
Battle of Big Hatchie River, MS |
Oct 5 |
Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas |
Oct 8 |
Battle of Perryville, KY- Confederate invasion halted |
Oct 8 |
Otto Von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the German Empire |
Oct 12 |
JEB Stuart completes his "second ride around Mcclellan" |
Oct 12 |
Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi |
Oct 12 |
Skirmish at Monocacy, Maryland |
Oct 13 |
Bismarck's "Blood & Iron" speech |
Oct 14 |
Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18 |
Oct 14 |
Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9 |
Oct 17 |
Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA |
Oct 18 |
Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY |
Oct 20 |
Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname |
Oct 22 |
Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory |
Oct 22 |
Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee |
Nov 3 |
Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana |
Nov 4 |
Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis) |
Nov 5 |
Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac |
Nov 5 |
Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties |
Nov 6 |
NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms |
Nov 9 |
US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him |
Nov 11 |
Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St Petersburg Russia) |
Nov 13 |
Battle of Holly Spring, MS |
Nov 17 |
Confederate Sec of War George B Randolph resigns |
Nov 20 |
Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg |
Nov 24 |
M Levy publishes Gustave Flaubert's "Salammbo" |
Nov 28 |
Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties) |
Nov 28 |
Battle of Hooly Spring, MS |
Dec 5 |
Battle of Coffeeville, MS |
Dec 6 |
Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians |
Dec 7 |
Battle of Hartsville, TN |
Dec 7 |
Battle of Prairie Grove, AR |
Dec 12 |
Battle of Dumfries, VA |
Dec 12 |
Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed) |
Dec 13 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights) |
Dec 16 |
Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution |
Dec 17 |
General Ulysses S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee |
Dec 18 |
Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid) |
Dec 19 |
Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties) |
Dec 20 |
-Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA |
Dec 20 |
-Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign |
Dec 20 |
Battle of Holly Spring, MS |
Dec 20 |
Brig-gen Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky |
Dec 22 |
-Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY |
Dec 23 |
Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis |
Dec 25 |
40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC |
Dec 26 |
-Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, VA |
Dec 26 |
1st US navy hospital ship enters service |
Dec 26 |
38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minnesota, due to their uprising |
Dec 27 |
Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou) |
Dec 27 |
Battle of Elizabethtown, KY |
Dec 29 |
Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General William T. Sherman |
Dec 29 |
Bowling ball invented |
Dec 31 |
-Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River/Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennesse in American Civil War |
Dec 31 |
President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union |
Dec 31 |
Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee |
Dec 31 |
Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC |
Keep in touch with us:
beta testing:
nothing here now
