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1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1862nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 862nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1862, the ...
Pages in category "1862 births" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,231 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
He suggests Black people should migrate to Africa or Central America, but this advice is rejected. August 17 – Dakota War: A Lakota (Sioux) uprising begins in Minnesota as Lakota Sioux attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. They are overwhelmed by the U.S. military six weeks later. August 19
April 19, 1862 41 Governor of Wisconsin (1862) Secretary of State of Wisconsin (1860–62) Member of the Wisconsin Senate (1854–58) Republican: Union: Newspaper editor Drowned while trying to step from a tethered boat to a moving steamboat [5] Robert H. Hatton: May 31, 1862 35 Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 5th ...
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.The combat between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee included futile frontal attacks by the Union army on December 13 against entrenched ...
Charles Michael Schwab (February 18, 1862 – September 18, 1939) was an American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second-largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world.
Josephus Daniels (1862–1948), founder of Raleigh News and Observer newspaper; U.S. Secretary of the Navy 1913–1921 under President Woodrow Wilson David Gergen (born 1942), journalist; editor-at-large for U.S. News & World Report ; director of Center for Public Leadership at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard ; senior political ...
1862 – Battle of Hampton Roads (Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack; first ever naval battle between iron-sided ships) 1862 – Homestead Act; 1862 – Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act; 1862 – Gen. Robert E. Lee placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia; 1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Battle of Manassas)