12/23/1863
British author William Makepeace Thackeray dies suddenly at his home in London, aged fifty-two Personal
03/21/1862
British captain and two of his men recapture the Emily St. Pierre from its U.S. Navy prize crew US/the World
03/18/1862
British ship Emily St. Pierre seized off the South Carolina coast and sent as a prize to Philadelphia US/the World
03/12/1862
In British India, Lord Elgin arrives in Calcutta to take up his duties as Viceroy US/the World
10/06/1866
In India, the Anglican bishop of Calcutta falls into the Ganges and is swept away and drowned. Crime/Disasters
10/05/1864
In West Bengal, a powerful and deadly cyclone strikes the Indian port city of Kolkata Crime/Disasters
