Major Events
- Apr 29 Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga
- May 20 Spotsylvania campaign in US Civil War ends after 10,920 killed or injured
- Jun 12 The Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the American Civil War in Louisa County ends with Confederate tactical victory and Union successful retreat
- 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 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
- Sep 2 US Civil War: Union General William T. Sherman captures and occupy Atlanta, Georgia, ending the Atlanta Campaign [1]
- Oct 5 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone, approx 60,000 die
- 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
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1864 in Sport
- Aug 2 Saratoga Racecourse, America's oldest Thoroughbred racetrack, opens its inaugural meet with four days of racing
Alfred Stieglitz
Ban Johnson
George Washington Carver
Alois Alzheimer
Frank Wedekind
Eleftherios Venizelos
Richard Strauss
Alexander GretchaninovMore People Born in 1864
Stephen Foster
Abraham Gesner
J.E.B. Stuart
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William T. Anderson
Henry SchoolcraftMore 1864 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1864
- Jan 16 White chapel murder victim and possible Jack the Ripper victim Mary Ann Nichols (18) weds printer's machinist William Nichols
- Feb 9 Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Clift Bacon
- Sep 8 Business magnate John D. Rockefeller (25) weds abolitionist Laura Spelman (24)
Charles Dickens
Giuseppe Verdi
Abraham Lincoln
Henry John Temple