* Atlas ( 1863 – 1885 ), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives

* 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2, 000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

* 1863 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian writer and journalist ( d. 1922 )

** Haliotis varia f. dohrniana Dunker, 1863 – synonym: Haliotis dohrniana Dunker, 1863

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

* 1863 – Ernest Thayer, American poet ( d. 1940 )

* Adrian Knox ( 1863 – 1932 ), Australian judge

* 1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom ( Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863 ).

* 1863 – Aleksey Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician ( d. 1945 )

* 1863 – The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.

* 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.

* 1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.

Cl., 43 ( 1863 ) 491 – 528 online (= Gesammelte philologische Schriften ( Leipzig & Berlin 1911 ) 1. 117 – 155 )

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

* 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.

* 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies.

In 1863, enlisting the support of Alexander Dallas Bache and Charles Henry Davis, a professional astronomer recently recalled from the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established.

* 1863 – 1867 Alexander Dallas Bache

In 1863, Tsar Alexander II of Russia purchased the building and began restoration, but the work was never finished.

Appointed in 1868, Price had already recommended to the university that the Press needed an efficient executive officer to exercise " vigilant superintendence " of the business, including its dealings with Alexander Macmillan, who became the publisher for Oxford's printing in 1863 and in 1866 helped Price to create the Clarendon Press series of cheap, elementary schoolbooks – perhaps the first time that Oxford used the Clarendon imprint.

After Tsar Alexander II put down the 1863 January Uprising in Poland, French Emperor Napoleon III asked the United States to " join in a protest to the Tsar.

Owned by Alexander M. Searcy and Dr. J. S. Moore, the manufactory assembled some 100 rifles for the Rebel forces in 1862 – 1863.

Samuel Andrew Jackson Cockayne married Hannah Jane Alexander ( 1840 – 1917 ) in 1863.

The other members of The Five also became interested in writing opera, a genre Balakirev did not consider highly, after the success of Alexander Serov's opera Judith in 1863, and gravitated toward Alexander Dargomyzhsky as a mentor in this field.

The city of Grand Prairie was first established as Dechman by Alexander McRae Dechman in 1863.

* Alexander William Kinglake ( 1863 – 87 ).

The diet was next assembled by Tsar Alexander II in 1863, due to the need to modernize the laws.

He served as Governor from July 10, 1863 to January 11, 1864 after serving as the third Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota when Governor Alexander Ramsey resigned to enter the United States Congress.

His military career and Alexander Ramsey's support assured Miller of a gubernatorial victory in 1863.

While the rest of Longstreet's corps was located around Suffolk, Virginia, Alexander accompanied Stonewall Jackson on his flanking march at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863, and his artillery placements in Hazel Grove at Chancellorsville proved decisive.

Alexander accompanied the First Corps to northern Georgia in the fall of 1863 to reinforce Gen. Braxton Bragg for the Battle of Chickamauga.

* Judith ( Serov ), an 1863 opera by Alexander Serov

* January 7-John Alexander Mathieson, jurist, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island ( b. 1863 )

Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Jr., better known throughout his career as R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., ( December 17, 1863 – July 31, 1931 ) was an American mining geologist and entrepreneur.

* Alexander Mackay, 8th Lord Reay ( 1775 – 1863 )

* Alexander, b & d 1853 ; Ellen Day, 1854 – 1939 ; Arthur, 1859 – 1939 ; Charles Alexander, 1861 – 1867 ; Edward Everett, Jr., 1863 – 1932 ; Philip Leslie, 1865 – 1931 ; Herbert Dudley, 1866 – 1908 ; Henry Kidder, 1868 – 1876 ; Robert Beverly, 1869-1895.

Not until June 1863, after the Crimean War had taken place, did Alexander II call the Estates again.

John Alexander Mathieson ( May 19, 1863 – January 7, 1947 ) was a Prince Edward Island politician and jurist, the 12th Premier.

* April 17-Aleksandr Golovin, stage designer ( b. 1863 )

In the late eighteenth and during the nineteenth century, Lithuanian participants in the 1794, 1830 – 1831, and 1863 rebellions against the Russian czarist rule were exiled to Abakan.

Following the failure of the last of the national uprisings, the January Uprising of 1863, the Polish nation, subjected within the territories under the Russian and Prussian administrations to still stricter controls and increased persecution, preserved its identity in nonviolent ways.

* 1863 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner ( d. 1938 )

* 1863 – Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski, Russian general ( d. 1919 )

In 1863, Russian Empire elaborated a new imperial policy, announced in the Gorchakov Circular, asserting the right to annex " troublesome " areas on the empire's borders.

All of these designs save the 1863 Tarpley date from the period 1865-1869, and all but the Tarpley and the Russian Berdan were conversions from muzzle-loaders.

He was made first ordinary professor of Finnish, Russian and Nordic history in 1863, and exchanged this chair for the one in general history in 1876.

In 1863, the tsarist interior minister Pyotr Valuyev proclaimed in his decree that " there never has been, is not, and never can be a separate Little Russian language ".

The monetary system of Congress Poland was unified with the Russian Empire following the failed January Uprising in 1863.

* During the Polish January 1863 Uprising, Russian troops threw Frédéric Chopin's piano out of a second-story apartment.

Pre-1937 buildings that survive include: Dambadarjaalin monastery in Sukhbaatar District ( 1765 ), Dashchoilin monastery's large yurt chapels ( built in 1778 ), Gandan monastery's golden-roofed Gandantegchinlen temple also called the Tsogchin dugan ( 1838 ), Vajradhara temple ( 1841 ), Zuu temple ( 1869 ), Didan Laviran temple ( 19th century ), the restored Russian Consulate building ( 1863 ), Erdem Itgemjit temple ( 1893 ) at the Bogd Khan's Winter Palace, rest of the buildings at the same Palace ( 1893 – 1906 ), the Museum of Ulaanbaatar's History which was formerly the private residence of the rich Buryat merchant Tsogt Badamjav ( 1904 ), Zanabazar's Art Museum building which was formerly called the Ondor Khorshoo ( 1905 ), the two-storey brick headquarters of the mining company " Mongolore " ( 1905 ), the tall Megjid Janraisig temple ( 1913 – 1914 ), the residence of Chin Wang Khanddorj, a prominent noble and politician in the early years of Mongolia's independence ( 1913 ), the first telephone building where Russian Orthodox choir singers stayed ( 1914 ), Marshal Zhukov Museum etc.

File: Holy Ttinity Church in Ulan Bator. jpg | Holy Trinity Church, built near the old Russian Consulate of 1863.

During 1863 – 1864 it was a real shadow government supported by majority of Poles, who even paid taxes for it, and was a significant problem for Russian secret police ( Okhrana ).

* Dmitry Grave ( 1863 – 1939 ), Russian mathematician

* Semenoff, " Geographical-statistic Dictionary of Russian Empire ", 1863.

Beginning in 1863, Koreans emigrated from the Korean Peninsula to the Russian Far East, some of them in order to wage guerrilla warfare against Japanese colonial forces in Korea and others who considered Siberia a land where they could lead better lives.

In 1863, the Russian authorities issued laws to enable Latvians, who formed the bulk of the population, to acquire the farms which they held, and special banks were founded to help them.

* December 5-Fyodor Sologub, Russian dramatist & essayist ( born 1863 )

After the war the bastions were renovated and Narva remained in the list of Russian fortifications until 1863, though there was no real military need for it.

Władysław Starewicz was born in Moscow, Russia to Polish parents ( father Aleksander Starewicz from Surviliškis near Kėdainiai and mother Antonina Legęcka from Kaunas, both from " neighbourhood nobility ", in hiding after the failed Insurrection of 1863 against the Tsarist Russian domination ), and had lived in Lithuania which at that time was a part of the Russian Empire.

( 1863 ) ( in Russian ).