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Religion/Philosophy Ash Wednesday
Religion/Philosophy Ash Wednesday
Religion/Philosophy Ash Wednesday
Religion/Philosophy Ash Wednesday
Religion/Philosophy Ash Wednesday begins the Christian observance of Lent for 1862
Religion/Philosophy Ash Wednesday begins the Christian observance of Lent for 1863
Religion/Philosophy Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent
Religion/Philosophy Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is celebrated across the United States
Cultural Ashmun Institute opens in Chester County, Pennsylvania
US/the World Assassination attempt on the life of Emperor Napoleon III fails in Paris
Crime/Disasters Assassination conspirator Samuel Arnold is arrested in the morning at Fortress Monroe in Virginia
Crime/Disasters Astor Place Riot in New York City
Battles/Soldiers At "Fort Fizzle" in Holmes County, Ohio, federal troops end active draft resistance
Education/Culture At a gala reception in New York City, thousands greet General Ulysses S. Grant and his family
Business/Industry At a great celebration in Cedar Falls, ground is broken on the ambitious Iowa Central Railraod
Campaigns/Elections At a Lincoln rally in New York City, Horace Greeley woos former Whig and American Party voters
Campaigns/Elections At a mass meeting in Tammany Hall, New York Democrats unite behind Stephen Douglas
Battles/Soldiers At a private house in Richmond, Confederate cavalry commander General J.E.B. Stuart dies of his wounds
Science/Technology At a southern England naval base, American inventors demonstrate their "torpedoes" to the Royal Navy
Personal At Albany, thousands of citizens file past Abraham Lincoln's coffin in the State Capitol
Crime/Disasters At Atchison, the Kansas Relief Committee reports on its efforts to aid the drought-stricken territory
US/the World - At Baden in Germany, Emperor Napoleon III meets with the leaders of several German states
Battles/Soldiers At Beaufort, North Carolina, Confederate commerce raider Nashville returns home
Battles/Soldiers At Bombay, the first British troops leave India for Africa to carry out the invasion of Abyssinia.
Crime/Disasters At Camp Chase in Ohio, two Union deserters who murdered the assistant Provost Marshal of the Seventeenth District are executed
US/the World - At Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, provincial delegates meet to discuss possible Canadian unity
Battles/Soldiers At Citronelle, Alabama, Confederate General Richard Taylor surrenders his forces of the Department of Alabama
Crime/Disasters At Colón in the Panama, an exploding British cargo of nitro-glycerin devastates the port and kills fifty
Battles/Soldiers At Columbus, Kentucky, Confederate forces begin the abandonment of "the Gibraltar of the West"
Battles/Soldiers At Columbus, Kentucky, Union forces take possession of "the Gibraltar of the West"