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1862 (MDCCCLXII ) was acommon year starting on Wednesday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Monday of theJulian calendar , the 1862nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 62nd year of the19th century , and the 3rd year of the1860s decade. As of the start of 1862, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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American Civil War in 1862January 30 :USS Monitor .February 6 :Battle of Fort Henry .Diagram of US Federal Government and American Union. Published: 1862, July 15. December 13 :Battle of Fredericksburg .Dec. 30 :Monitor David Hilbert Edith Wharton January 9 –Carrie Clark Ward , American silent film actress (d.1926 )January 14 –Carrie Derick , Canadian botanist and geneticist (d.1941 )January 15 –Loie Fuller , American dancer (d.1928 )January 23 –David Hilbert , German mathematician (d.1943 )January 24 –Edith Wharton , American fiction writer (d.1937 )January 29 –Frederick Delius , English composer (d.1934 )January 30 –Walter Damrosch , German-born American orchestral conductor (d.1950 )February 3 –James Clark McReynolds ,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1946 )February 4 February 7 –Bernard Maybeck , American Arts and Crafts architect (d.1957 )February 8 –Ferdinand Ferber , French Army captain, aviation pioneer (d.1909 )February 17 –Edward German , English composer (d.1936 )March 4 –Robert Emden , Swiss astrophysicist, meteorologist (d.1940 )March 8 –George Frederick Phillips , Canadian-born American military hero (d.1904 )March 13 –Jane Delano , American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service (d.1919 )March 14 –Vilhelm Bjerknes , Norwegian physicist, meteorologist (d.1951 )March 25 –George Sutherland , American politician,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1942 )March 28 –Aristide Briand , French politician, winner of theNobel Peace Prize (d.1932 )March 29 –Adolfo Müller-Ury , Swiss-born American painter (d. 1947)April 2 –Nicholas Murray Butler , American president ofColumbia University , winner of theNobel Peace Prize (d.1947 )April 6 –Georges Darien , French writer (d.1921 )April 11 April 26 –Edmund C. Tarbell , American Impressionist painter (d.1938 )April 27 –Rudolph Schildkraut , Ottoman-born Austrian actor (d.1930 )May 15 –Arthur Schnitzler , Austrian dramatist, narrator (d.1931 )May 27 –John Kendrick Bangs , American author, satirist (d.1922 )June 5 –Allvar Gullstrand , Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1930 )June 7 –Philipp Lenard , Hungarian–German physicist, winner of theNobel Prize in Physics (d.1947 )June 10 –John de Robeck , British admiral (d.1928 )June 21 –Damrong Rajanubhab , Thai prince, historian (d.1943 )June 27 –May Irwin , Canadian actress, singer (d.1938 )Gustav Klimt Claude Debussy Ida B. Wells Andrew Fisher Billy Hughes July 2 July 8 –Josephine White Bates , Canadian-born American author (d.1934 )July 14 July 15 –Ernest Troubridge , British admiral (d.1926 )July 16 –Ida B. Wells , American journalist, suffragist, and anti-lynching crusader (d.1931 )July 24 –Percy FitzPatrick , South African author, politician and mining financier (d.1931 )August 1 –M. R. James , English medievalist scholar and author (d.1936 )August 5 –Joseph Merrick (theElephant Man ), English sufferer from deformities (d.1890 )August 16 –Amos Alonzo Stagg , American football player, coach (d.1965 )August 21 –Emilio Salgari , Italian writer (d.1911 )August 22 –Claude Debussy , French composer (d.1918 )August 24 –Zonia Baber , American geographer and geologist (d.1956 )August 26 –Herbert Booth , English-born Salvationist, third son ofWilliam andCatherine Booth (d.1926 )August 29 September 7 –Edgar Speyer , American-born international financier and philanthropist (d.1932 )September 11 September 12 –Carl Eytel , German-American artist working inPalm Springs, California (d.1925 )September 19 –Arvid Lindman , Swedish admiral, industrialist, and politician, 12thPrime Minister of Sweden (d.1936 )September 22 –Anastasios Charalambis , Prime Minister of Greece (d.1949 )September 23 –Denis Auguste Duchêne , French general (d.1950 )September 25 –Billy Hughes , 7thPrime Minister of Australia (d.1952 )September 27 –Louis Botha , Boer general, firstPrime Minister of South Africa (d.1919 )Gerhart Hauptmann October 3 –Johnny Briggs , English cricketer (d.1902 )October 12 –Theodor Boveri , German biologist (d.1915 )October 13 –Mary Kingsley , English explorer (d.1900 )October 18 –Mehmet Esat Bülkat , Ottoman general (d.1952 )October 19 –Auguste Lumière , French inventor (d.1954 )October 26 –Hilma af Klint , Swedish abstract painter (d.1944 )October 27 –Hugh Evan-Thomas , British admiral (d.1928 )October 28 –Nicholas Timothy Clerk , Gold Coast theologian, missionary and Presbyterian minister (d.1961 )November 5 –Annie Laurie Wilson James , American journalist focused on horses (unknown year of death)November 14 –George Washington Vanderbilt II , American businessman (d.1914 )November 15 –Gerhart Hauptmann , German writer,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1946 )November 16 –Charles Turner , Australian cricketer (d.1944 )November 19 –Billy Sunday , American baseball player, evangelist and prohibitionist (d.1935 )November 23 –Ernest Guglielminetti , Swiss physician (d.1943 )November 24 –Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Bavarian general (d.1953 )December 5 December 8 –Georges Feydeau , French playwright (d.1921 )December 12 –J. Bruce Ismay , English shipping magnate,White Star Line (d.1937 )December 15 –Adrien Loir , French biologist, bacteriologist (d.1941 )December 25 –Wilhelm Weinberg , German physician (d.1937 )Samuel Colt John Tyler Henry David Thoreau January 10 –Samuel Colt , American firearms inventor (b.1814 )[ 11] January 18 –John Tyler , 71, 10th President of the United States (b.1790 )January 20 –Harriet Auber , English poet (b.1773 )February 3 –Jean-Baptiste Biot , French physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b.1774 )February 7 February 20 February 21 –Justinus Kerner , German physician (b.1786 )February 24 –Bernhard Severin Ingemann , Danish novelist, poet (b.1789 )February 25 –Jonathan Hine , English hosiery manufacturer (b.1778 )March 22 –Manuel Robles Pezuela , former President of Mexico (executed) (b.1817 )April 6 –Albert Sidney Johnston , American Confederate general (b.1803 )April 9 –John Thomas , English Victorian sculptor (b.1813 )April 10 –W. H. L. Wallace ,American Civil War Union general (died of wounds) (b.1821 )April 19 –Louis P. Harvey , Governor of Wisconsin (b.1820 )May 6 –Henry David Thoreau , American author, philosopher (b.1817 )May 16 –Edward Gibbon Wakefield , English theorist of colonization (b.1796 )May 21 –John Drew Sr. , Irish-American actor, manager (b.1827 )May 25 –Juana Azurduy de Padilla , South American guerrilla military leader (b. c.1781 )May 29 June 3 –John Lea , American epidemiologist (b.1782 )June 17 –Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning , English Viceroy of India (b.1812 )June 20 –Barbu Catargiu , 1st Prime Minister of Romania (b.1807 )Judith Montefiore Martin Van Buren July 23 –José María Bocanegra , 3rdPresident of Mexico (b.1787 )July 24 –Martin Van Buren , 79, 8thPresident of the United States (b.1782 )August 18 –Simon Fraser , Canadian explorer (b.1776 )August 20 September 3 –Shusaku Honinbo , Japanese Go player (b.1829 )September 6 –John Sumner ,Archbishop of Canterbury (b.1780 )September 10 –Carlos Antonio López , president ofParaguay (b.1792 )September 14 –Charles Lennox Richardson , English merchant murdered in Japan (b.1834 )September 24 October 8 –James Walker , Scottish engineer (b.1781 )October 15 –Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug , German statesman (b.1794 )November 7 –Bahadur Shah II , 19th and Last mughal emperor (b.1775 )November 13 –Ludwig Uhland , German poet (b.1787 )November 17 –Mary Whitwell Hale , American school founder (b.1810 )December 4 –James Bennett (minister) , English congregational minister (b.1774 )December 13 –Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb , American Confederate general (killed in action) (b.1823 )December 18 –Barbara Fritchie , American Civil War patriot (b.1766 )^ Miguel Galindo y Galindo (21 October 2019).Catástrofe de Chalchicomula (PDF) . 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