Birthdays
Joseph Bradford Carr
Turns 35 on this date
Henry Winter Davis
Turns 46 on this date
John Punchard Jewett
Turns 49 on this date
James Franklin Purvis
Turns 29 on this date
John Severn Tyler
Turns 23 on this date
Events
| US/the World | British naval units bombard and largely destroy the Japanese city of Kagoshima on the island of Kyushu |
08/15/1863 to 08/17/1863 |
| US/the World | Exiles from Haiti make a daring attack on Spanish-ruled Santo Domingo opening the two-year War of Restoration | 08/16/1863 |