* 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.

On July 2, 1863, Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade replaced Doubleday with Maj. Gen. John Newton, a more junior officer from another corps.

* 1938 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor ( b. 1863 )

* George B. Boomer ( 1832 – 1863 ), Union Army colonel in the American Civil War

* 1863 – George Essex Evans, Australian poet ( d. 1909 )

* 1863 – George Hull Ward, American general ( b. 1826 )

* 1863 – David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister ( d. 1945 )

In late 1863, Watts resigned as Attorney General to take office as the Governor of Alabama, and George Davis of North Carolina took his place.

George Parr ’ s side came out in 1863 – 64 and there were two tours by sides led by W. G.

* 1863 – Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

* 1863 – Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.

* April 26 – George Hull Ward, American general ( d. 1863 )

* April 26 – George Herbert Mead, American philosopher ( b. 1863 )

* March 26 – David Lloyd George, Welsh Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1863 )

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PC ( 17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945 ) was a British Liberal politician and statesman.

In March 1863 his father William George, who had been a teacher in Manchester and other cities, returned to his native Pembrokeshire because of failing health.

The room was extended from five to eight bays according to designs by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1863.

They married eighteen months later in 1863, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece.

* Eliot, George, Romola ( 1863 ).

* George H. Tichenor, who experimented with the use of alcohol on wounds c. 1861 – 1863 during the American Civil War.

* George Stevens – 5 wins ( Freetrader ( 1856 ), Emblem ( 1863 ), Emblematic ( 1864 ), The Colonel ( 1869, 1870 ))

Queen Victoria on ' Fyvie ' with John Brown at Balmoral, by George Washington Wilson, 1863 ; medium: carte de visite, size: 9. 20 x 6. 10 cm ; from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland

The town of Milford was established in 1816 by George Reed, Marysville in 1819 by Samuel Culbertson, Richwood in 1832 by Philip Plumber, Kingsville in 1834, Somerville in 1835, Watkins and Arbelia in 1838, Newton in 1838 by David Paul, York Center in 1841, Frankfort in 1846, Unionville in 1847, Pharisburg in 1847, New California in 1853, Dover in 1854, Union Center in 1863, Broadway in 1865, Pottersburg in 1869, Peoria in 1870, Magnetic Springs in 1879, and Claibourne in 1881.

* George Allen Gilreath ( 1834 – 1863 ), a captain in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War ; killed while commanding the regiment which advanced the farthest into enemy lines during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.