* 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.

The earliest known written evidence of the title is from the November 3, 1863, diary entry of William Howard Russell, in which he referred to gossip about " the First Lady in the Land ," referring to Mary Todd Lincoln.

They had seven children ( five sons and two daughters ): Eliza Arabella Garfield ( 1860 – 63 ); Harry Augustus Garfield ( 1863 – 1942 ); James Rudolph Garfield ( 1865 – 1950 ); Mary Garfield ( 1867 – 1947 ); Irvin M. Garfield ( 1870 – 1951 ); Abram Garfield ( 1872 – 1958 ); and Edward Garfield ( 1874 – 76 ).

In 1855, she married John Millais and eventually bore him eight children: Everett, born in 1856 ; George, born in 1857 ; Effie, born in 1858 ; Mary, born in 1860 ; Alice, born in 1862 ; Geoffroy, born in 1863 ; John in 1865 ; and Sophie in 1868.

He and Effie eventually had eight children: Everett, born in 1856 ; George, born in 1857 ; Effie, born in 1858 ; Mary, born in 1860 ; Alice, born in 1862 ; Geoffroy, born in 1863 ; John in 1865 ; and Sophie in 1868.

In 1863 the heirs of George Staup, Mary A., Peter and William, sold a tract of land to Thomas Gimmel for $ 7, 000.

* Mary Emma Woolley ( 1863 – 1947 ), President of Mount Holyoke College from 1900 – 1937

* William McMechen ( 1807-1888 ), who married 1 ) Mary Blake in 1834 and 2 ) Lucinda Bonar in 1863.

* Mary Jane Kelly ( 1863 – 1888 ), widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of Jack the Ripper

After the letters of Mother Mary of the Divine Heart ( 1863 – 1899 ) requesting, in the name of Christ Himself, to Pope Leo XIII consecrate the entire World to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Holy Father commissions a group of theologians to examine the petition on the basis of revelation and sacred tradition.

In 1863 he was made vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, having attracted attention by his vehement sermons against Essays and Reviews, a series of messages on biblical inspiration in which he defended against the findings of textual criticism and higher criticism the historicity and Mosaic authorship of Genesis, and Biblical inerrancy in general: " Either, with the best and wisest of all ages, you must believe the whole of Holy Scripture ; or, with the narrow-minded infidel, you must disbelieve the whole.

* Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck ( 2 November 1781 – 11 February 1828 ) married Mary Lowther ( d. 1863 ), daughter of William Lowther, September 16, 1820 ; had issue: George Cavendish-Bentinck.

He also became engaged to Ethel Mary Boyce ( 1863 – 1936 ) from Chertsey, Surrey, who was also a promising composition student at the Academy.

Alvin Cullum York was born in a two-room log cabin near Pall Mall, Tennessee, on December 13, 1887, the third of eleven children born to Mary Elizabeth Brooks ( 8 August 1866-21 May 1943 ) and William Uriah York ( 15 May 1863 – 17 November 1911 ).

He was the second of six children of Samuel Pollitt ( 1863 – 1933 ), a lacksmith's striker, and his wife, Mary Louisa ( 1868 – 1939 ), a cotton spinner, daughter of William Charlesworth, a joiner.

* Mary Jane Kelly ( 1863 – 1888 ), Jack the Ripper victim

** Mary Jane Kelly ( c. 1863 – 1888 ), lived and was murdered at 13 Millers Court, just off Dorset Street

Mary Howitt devoted herself to Scandinavian literature, and between 1842 and 1863 she translated the novels of Frederika Bremer and many of the stories of Hans Christian Andersen.

He married Mary Dobson, daughter of the Canterbury Provincial Engineer Edward Dobson, in 1863.

The first known use of the French term décalcomanie, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Eleanor's Victory ( 1863 ), was soon followed by the English decalcomania in an 1865 trade show catalog ( The Tenth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association ); it was popularized during the ceramic transfer craze of the mid-1870s.

After his wife Lydia's early death in 1861, Pratt married her younger sister Mary Helen Richardson in September 1863.

* Marcia Amelia Mary Pelham, 7th Baroness Fauconberg ( 1863 – 1926 ) ( abeyance terminated 1903 )

Potter was born in Battersea, London, the only son of Frank Collard Potter ( 1858 – 1939 ), a chartered accountant, and his wife Elizabeth Mary Jubilee née Reynolds ( 1863 – 1950 ).

In 1863 he married Mary McIntire, a 22-year-old playwright.

Pomerene was born on December 6, 1863, in Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, and his spouse was Mary Bockrus Pomerene.