Events

When searching a date use YYYY-MM-DD format.
Date
Type Title Sort descending
Battles/Soldiers With impressive ceremony in Brooklyn, 3000 Long Island veterans are presented with service medals
Business/Industry With pressure on its bullion reserves easing, the Bank of England drops its discount rate again
Campaigns/Elections With Republicans taking power in New Jersey, the New York Times announces the state's "Reconstruction"
Legal/Political With the end of its second regular session, the 34th Congress of the United States finishes its term and adjourns
Business/Industry With the Mississippi River open again to traffic, the steamboat Imperial departs St Louis for New Orleans
Battles/Soldiers - With the opening of the Tennessee River, U.S. naval units raid deep into Tennessee and Alabama
US/the World With the Treaty of Caracas, Brazil and Venezuela agree on their Amazonian border
Foreign With Vietnamese resistance continuing, the French commander in Indo-China asks to be relieved
Business/Industry With war in the United States underway, the Bank of England raises its discount rate again
Lawmaking/Litigating Without authority, Union General David Hunter declares all slaves in three states "forever free"
Cultural Women's Hospital of New York City opens
Cultural Worcester, Massachusetts purchases park land for public use
Cultural World's first women's hospital organized in New York City
Crime/Disasters Wreckage of missing Prussian warship found along the Dutch coast
Crime/Disasters Yale students and local volunteer firemen battle in New Haven and a young fireman is fatally shot
Crime/Disasters Yellow Fever epidemic declared in Mobile, Alabama
Cultural Yiddish popular writer Shalom Aleichem born in the Ukraine
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur - the Jewish Day of Atonement
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement
Religion/Philosophy Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement
Crime/Disasters Young female Chicagoan fined $25 for attending the opera disguised as a man