1862

Year 1862 was a  (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - March

 * - annexes  island in modern-day
 * -, , and forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico, beginning the
 * - End of term for, 7th . He is succeeded by.
 * - The tenth president dies.
 * - The first American warship, the  is launched.
 * - 's "" is published for the first time ().
 * - : gives the  its first victory of the war, by capturing, known as the.
 * - : General attacks,  and captures it the next day.
 * - : officially inaugurated in, to a six-year term as president of the.
 * - : Confederates shut out of at.
 * - : The iron-clad (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at, .  starts the same day.
 * - : First battle between two ironclad warships v
 * : The US federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
 * - : - In  Union forces succeed in stopping the  invasion of . The battle began on.

April - June

 * - : - The battle begins when Union forces under General  close in on the Confederate capital.
 * - : In, the begins.
 * - : -  Army under General  defeats the  near.
 * - : -  The Great Locomotive Chase
 * - : Forces under Union Admiral capture the Confederate city of.
 * - The (now ) is created by an Act of the California Legislature.
 * - : General  defeats the  Army; commemorated each year as "" (Spanish "Five of May").
 * - : The ironclad  is scuttled in the  northwest of.
 * - U.S. President signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture (later renamed ).
 * - U.S. President  signs the  into law.
 * - : ends - Both sides claim victory.
 * - : troops evacuate  on the, leaving the way clear for  troops to take.
 * - : -  forces capture  from the
 * - : -  forces under General  save the  from a  assault on the James Peninsula led by General.
 * - : Battle of

July - September

 * Marriage of, second daughter of to.
 * president signs into law the  authorizing construction of the.
 * is founded
 * - U.S. President signs the  into law, creating land-grant colleges to teach agricultural and mechanical sciences across the United States.
 * - Charles Dodgson (better known as ) extemporises the story that becomes  for 10-year-old and her sisters on a  trip on  from  to.
 * - : becomes the first.
 * - : - At  in,  General 's raid into the north  is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the.
 * - : takes command of the  Army.
 * - : Skirmish at Taberville, MO - forces force troops to march south, near.
 * - : - Along the  near,  troops drive  forces back into the city.
 * - : The ironclad  is scuttled on the  after suffering damage in a battle with the  near.
 * - : - At Cedar Mountain, Virginia,  General  narrowly defeats  forces under General.
 * - meets with a group of prominent African-Americans - the first time a President has done so. He suggests Black people should migrate to  or, but this advice is rejected.
 * - :  (Sioux) uprising begins in  as desperate Lakota attack white settlements along the . They will be overwhelmed by the US military six weeks later.
 * - Indian Wars: During an uprising in, warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended  and instead turn to the settlement of , killing white settlers along the way.
 * - The  opens its gates.
 * - : -  General  leads his forces in an attack on retreating  troops in, driving them away.
 * - : President reluctantly restores  General  to full command after General 's disastrous defeat at the.
 * - : In the 's first invasion of the North, General leads 55,000 men of the  across the  at  near, into.
 * - : -  capture the  garrison at,.
 * - : -  forces defeat  troops at, in the bloodiest day in U.S. history (with over 22,000 casualties).
 * - : -  troops under Major General  defeat a  force commanded by Major General  at.
 * becomes prime minister of.
 * Preliminary announcement of the by
 * - Bismarck's "Blood and Iron" speech
 * becomes prime minister of.
 * Preliminary announcement of the by
 * - Bismarck's "Blood and Iron" speech

October - December

 * - : -  forces under General  halt the  invasion of  by defeating troops led by General  at.
 * - : In the aftermath of the,  General  and his men loot , during a raid into the north.
 * - In the, rebel troops of southern states defeat the government troops.
 * - : removes  as commander of the.
 * - : In, more than 300 Santee are found guilty of  and  of white settlers and are sentenced to hang.
 * -, German poet dies of a mysterious disease. are taken aback.
 * - : President  approves General 's plan to capture the  capital at  (this led to a dramatic Union defeat at the  on ).
 * - : -  troops led by General John Blunt push back  forces commanded by General  into northwestern '.
 * - In his, President reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the.
 * - First s enter service.
 * - : The suffers massive casualties and abandons attempts to capture the Confederate capital of.
 * - is issued by General.
 * - William D. Duly hangs 38 Dakota in.
 * - - : : Another victory for the, outnumbered 2 to 1, results in 6 times as many Union casualties, defeating several assaults coordinated by , losing commander.
 * - The sinks off,.
 * - : signs an act that admits  to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two); meanwhile, the  is fought near.
 * Peruvian slave-raiders land on, the beginning of a decade on the island.



Undated

 * patents the.
 * The passes the
 * A epidemic in California.
 * Bureau of Internal Revenue, forerunner of, founded
 * becomes an dictator
 * builds a property in northwest, which will later become the town of.
 * publishes his novel .

Ongoing Events

 * The (-)

January - June

 * -, American dancer (d. )
 * -, German mathematician (d. )
 * -, American writer (d. )
 * -, English composer (d. )
 * -, Australian adventurer and journalist (d. )
 * -, American architect (d. )
 * -, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. )
 * -, Canadian-born military hero (d. )
 * -, American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service (d. )
 * -, economist (d. )
 * -, American leader of (d. )
 * -, French politician, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, artist (d. 1947)
 * -, American president of Columbia University, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, French writer (d. )
 * -, American jurist and statesman (d. )
 * -, American artist (d. )
 * -, Austrian dramatist and narrator (d. )
 * -, American author and satirist (d. )
 * -, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, Austrian physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, Thai prince and historian (d. )
 * -, Canadian actress and singer (d. )

July - December

 * -, English physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, Austrian artist (d. )
 * -, American journalist, suffragist, and anti-lynching crusader (d. )
 * -, English oddity (d. )
 * -, Italian writer (d. )
 * -, French composer (d. )
 * -, the third son of and  (d. )
 * , fifth (d. )
 * , Belgian writer, laureate (d. )
 * -, American writer (d. )
 * -, seventh (d. )
 * -, English cricketer (d. )
 * -, French inventor (d. )
 * -, Professor of at  (d. ); he married , widow of President.
 * -, American politician (d. )
 * -, American businessman (d. )
 * -, German writer, laureate (d. )
 * -, Australian cricketer (d. )
 * -, American baseball player, evangelist, prohibitionist (d. )
 * -, French playwright (d. )
 * -, French playwright (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, American firearms inventor (b. )
 * -, 10th (b. )
 * -, French scientist (b. )
 * -, Filipino poet (b. )
 * -, general (b. )
 * -, Governor of Wisconsin (b. )
 * -, American author and philosopher (b. )

July - December

 * -, eighth (b. )
 * -, Japanese Go player (b. )
 * -, Canadian explorer (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, German poet (b. )
 * -, U.S. patriot in Civil War (b. )


 * See also .