1863 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1863?
- January 1, 1863 – American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
- January 8, 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
- March 30, 1863 – Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
- May 21, 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
- May 27, 1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
- June 14, 1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
- July 1, 1863 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
- July 4, 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
- August 17, 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
- September 6, 1863 – American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
- September 16, 1863 – Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
- October 29, 1863 – Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
- November 16, 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Campbell’s Station near Knoxville, Tennessee – Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
- November 18, 1863 – King Christian IX of Denmark decides to sign the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.
- November 19, 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- November 25, 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
- November 26, 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
- November 27, 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
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