1864 History Timeline

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s

Years: 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 - 1864 - 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869

Events

February 27 - American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
April 22 - The United States Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" needs to be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
James Clerk Maxwell discovers Microwaves
First Geneva Convention
August 22 - International Red Cross founded in Geneva, Switzerland
November - Abraham Lincoln defeats George B. McClellan in the U.S. presidential election

Literature, Arts, Sciences, Philosophy

Vatican, Syllabus errorum. Pope Pius IX condemns theological liberalism as an error and claims for the supremacy of RC Church authority over the civil society.
1864 in literature:

Births

January 13 -- Wilhelm Wien, physicist
March 13 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian impressionist painter
March 19 - Charles Russell, artist
April 21 - Max Weber, sociologist
November 24 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter

Deaths

January 13 - Stephen Foster, composer of Camptown Races, Oh! Susannah
Roger Taney - United States Supreme Court Justice
Tuanku Imam Bonjol - Indonesian religious and military leader

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