| Personal |
|
Dana Conway, third son of Moncure Conway, is born in London, England |
| Personal |
|
In England, the future King George the Fifth is born at Marlborough House in London. |
| Religion/Philosophy |
|
In the small Yorkshire village of Horbury, "Onward Christian Soldiers" is sung for the first time |
| Personal |
|
In a Louisville, Kentucky prison, notorious Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill dies of wounds |
| Crime/Disasters |
|
In the Caribbean, relief ships rescue passengers wrecked on a remote desert island the week before |
| Crime/Disasters |
|
In central England, the crash of an excursion train with eight hundred passengers kills ten people |
| Battles/Soldiers |
|
General Ulysses S. Grant visits the United States Military Academy and reviews the Corps of Cadets |
| Religion/Philosophy |
|
In a London ceremony, Henry Edward Manning is consecrated as the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster |
| Education/Culture |
|
The New York Yacht Club holds its annual regatta off the coast of Long Island |
| Crime/Disasters |
|
In Nashville, Tennessee, a massive fire destroys a government warehouse and four million dollars in goods |
| Crime/Disasters |
|
In south-east England, a train crash kills ten people but passenger Charles Dickens narrowly survives |
| Education/Culture |
|
In Munich, Germany, Richard Wagner's epic opera "Tristan and Isolde" finally has its premiere performance |
| Battles/Soldiers |
|
In a rainy Philadelphia, General George Meade leads Philadelphia's veterans in a welcome home parade |
| US/the World |
|
In South America, a Brazilian river fleet defeats Paraguayan naval forces at the Battle of Riachuelo |
| Crime/Disasters |
|
In a spectacular and destructive fire, P.T. Barnum's American Museum burns to the ground in New York City |
| Education/Culture |
|
The Irish future Nobel Prize for Literature winner William Butler Yeats is born in Dublin |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
|
President Johnson appoints long-time judge William L. Sharkey as provisional governor of Mississippi |
| Crime/Disasters |
|
In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial concludes |
| Crime/Disasters |
-
|
In Washington's Old Penitentiary, final arguments are being made in the Lincoln conspiracy trial |
| Education/Culture |
|
In Brooklyn, the visiting Athletic Baseball Club of Philadelphia defeats the Resolute Club of Brooklyn 39-14. |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
|
President Johnson appoints Andrew Jackson Hamilton as provisional governor of Texas |
| Battles/Soldiers |
|
Lowell, Massachusetts honors its first townsmen to fall in the Civil War with a splendid new monument |
| Personal |
|
Notorious secessionist "fire-eater" Edmund Ruffin commits suicide at his Virginia plantation |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
-
|
Virginia's "Alexandria" legislature moves back to Richmond for its final session |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
|
Landing in Galveston, Union General Gordon Granger decrees that slavery in Texas is at an end. |
| Education/Culture |
|
In Camden, New Jersey, the Philadelphia Cricket Club best their New York counterparts in a day of cricket |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
|
The new Virginia legislature replaces the restrictive Alexandria Oath with the milder Amnesty Oath |
| Science/Technology |
|
Summer begins |
| Battles/Soldiers |
|
The U.S. Navy's Admiral Louis Goldsborough sails to take command of the European Squadron |
| Personal |
|
Francis Adeline Seward, wife of the Secretary of State William Seward, dies of a heart attack |
