1861 Q4 Timeline
October
02 - Former VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky.
04 - Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer, is born.
04 - Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West, is born.
06 - Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg.
06 - Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84.
06 - Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert.
08 - Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), is born.
10 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922), is born.
11 - Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek).
12 - Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi.
14 - Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, is born.
16 - Confederacy starts selling postage stamps.
21 - Virginia Confederates win at Ball's Bluff
21 - Edward Dickinson Baker, US attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50.
21 - John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate brig-general, dies.
21 - Battle of Balls Bluff, VA (Leesburg, Harrison's Island).
22 - Advance units of the newly formed Brigade of General H. H. Sibley marched westward from San Antonio to claim New Mexico and the American southwestfor the Confederacy.
22 - 1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed.
24 - Western Union completes telegraph line
24 - 1st transcontinental telegram sent ending Pony Express.
24 - 1st US transcontinental telegram is sent (from SF to Wash DC).
24 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia.
25 - Telegraph message sent from St Louis to SF.
25 - Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82.
25 - Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield).
26 - Richard D Sears, Boston, tennis champ, US Open (1881), is born.
26 - Pony Express ends.
31 - Missouri secedes, pro-Union forces and government reverse
November
01 - Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies.
03 - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist, is born.
04 - University of Washington founded in Seattle.
06 - James A Naismith, inventor (basketball), is born.
06 - Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate pres.
07 - MISSOURI Confederates beat Grant at Belmont
07 - S. CAROLINA Union takes Port Royal
07 - Battle of Port Royal Bay, SC (Ft Walker, Ft Beauregard).
07 - Battle of Belmont, MO.
08 - Trent Affair begins with arrest of Southern commissioners
08 - Battle of Mount Ivy, KY.
08 - US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent.
09 - 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto).
09 - Battle of Piketon, Ky.
10 - Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri), is born.
11 - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies at 24.
14 - Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisc, historian/educator (Harvard U), is born.
16 - Vaclav Suk, composer, is born.
19 - Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper.
21 - Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, is born.
22 - Battle of Ft McRee, FL.
24 - Luik-Vis‚-Maastricht railway opens.
26 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg.
28 - Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederate Army.
28 - Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54.
30 - French Gailliard, Belgian painter (Zeustempel in Athens), is born.
30 - Ludwig Thuille, composer, is born.
30 - Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac".
December
00 - Legal Tender Act - paper currency accepted, unbacked by gold
00 - a 20-foot long three-man submarine designed and built by James McClintock.
04 - Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul), is born.
05 - Gatling gun patented.
05 - Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), is born.
08 - William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine, is born.
08 - Georges M‚liŠs, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story, is born.
08 - Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman), is born.
09 - Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah).
13 - Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV.
14 - Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42.
14 - George HG earl of Aberdeen, Engl min of Foreign affairs, dies at 76.
14 - Heinrich August Marschner, composer, dies at 66.
15 - Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US), is born.
15 - Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45.
16 - Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer, dies at 71.
17 - Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, is born.
18 - Lionel Monckton, composer, is born.
19 - Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno), is born.
19 - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton Engld, Russian-English translator, is born.
19 - Battle of Black Water.
20 - Battle of Dranesville, VA.
22 - Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology), is born.
26 - Philip St George Cocke, Confederate brig-gen, commits suicide at 52 .
26 - Friedrich Engel, German mathematician (group theory), is born.
30 - US, banks stops payments in gold.
31 - 22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record.
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