* 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.

After receiving a series of 18 threatening letters from Wiremu Tamihana, the Waikato leader who was until then was considered one of the more peaceful rangatira and who had negotiated the truce at the end of the First Taranki War, on 9 July 1863 Governor Grey expelled virtually all the Māori living in the territory controlled by the British south of Auckland after Kingitanga Maori refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen.

* Carey, Robert " The Second Maori War " 1863

After receiving a series of 18 threatening letters from Tamihana, the Waikato leader who was until then was considered one of the more peaceful rangatira and who had negotiated the truce at the end of the First Taranki War, on 9 July 1863 Governor Grey expelled virtually all the Māori living in the territory controlled by the British south of Auckland after Kingitanga Maori refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen.

* Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by ' A Pakeha Maori ' ( Frederick Edward Maning ) Gutenberg ebook, originally published 1863

* Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by ' A Pakeha Maori ' ( Frederick Edward Maning ) Gutenberg ebook, originally published 1863

The government passed the Suppression of Rebellion Act 1863 to punish Maori rebels who had fought against the government mainly in Taranaki and the Waikato.

Kihikihi was at the core of the productive farm lands that Maori developed in the 1850s with the help of CMS missionaries. From here food was supplied to new settlers in Auckland for a brief period. The area became the heartland of the rebel Maori uprising in 1863.

* 1863 – American Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.

1798 – 1863 ) fought against the US government during Seminole Wars and for the Union during the American Civil War

The Invasion of Waikato was a campaign during the middle stages of the New Zealand Wars, fought in the North Island of New Zealand from July 1863 to April 1864 between the military forces of the Colonial Government and a federation of rebel Māori tribes known as the Kingitanga Movement.

José Antonio Páez Herrera ( 13 June 1790 – 6 May 1873 ) was General in Chief of the army fighting Spain during the Venezuelan Wars of Independence, in addition to becoming the President of Venezuela once it was independent of the Gran Colombia ( 1830 – 1835 ; 1839 – 1843 ; 1861 – 1863 ).

During the New Zealand Wars, a battle was fought in Pukekohe known as the Defence of Pukekohe East 1863.

European settlement began at the conclusion of the Waikato Wars ( 1863 – 1865 ).

* John Carter ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1785 – 1863 ), Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

General Baron Hugh Halkett, GCH, CB, ( 30 August 1783 – 26 July 1863 in Hanover, Germany ) was a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars and later a general of infantry in the Hanoverian service.

Born in Monaghan Town, Temple was 30 years old and an Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Regiment of Artillery during the Invasion of Waikato ( one of the campaigns in the New Zealand Wars ), when the following deed took place on 20 November 1863 at Rangiriri, New Zealand for which he and Lieutenant Arthur Frederick Pickard were awarded the VC:

Down was 21 years old, and an ensign in the 57th Regiment of Foot ( later The Middlesex Regiment ), British Army during the Second Taranaki War ( one of the campaigns in the New Zealand Wars ), when the following deed took place on 2 October 1863 at Poutoko, New Zealand for which he and Drummer Dudley Stagpoole were awarded the VC:

Pickard was 19 years old, and a lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, British Army during the Invasion of Waikato ( one of the campaigns in the New Zealand Wars ), when the following deed took place on 20 November 1863 at Rangiriri, New Zealand for which he and Assistant Surgeon William Temple were awarded the VC:

Meremere was the site of fighting in 1863 during the New Zealand Wars, at which time the settlement ( then known as Mere Mere ) was the site of a Māori defensive outpost.

The Romanian Catholic community ( which includes adherents to the Eastern Rite Church ) has traditionally been accompanied by the presence of majority-Catholic ethnic groups: Ragusan traders were first mentioned in the 16th century ; Italians, recorded ca. 1630, were traditionally employed as stonemasons ; a Polish minority became notable after the 1863 January Uprising forced many to take refuge in Romania ; the French, highly influential during the late 18th century and early 19th century, grouped 700 ethnics by the 1890s ; between the two World Wars, Bucharest became home to a large Székely community ( probably some tens of thousands ).

Subsequently HM Sultan Jamalul Ahlam Kiram ( 1863 – 1881 ), the 29th reigning Sultan of Sulu, leased North Borneo in 1878 to Gustavus Baron de Overbeck and Alfred Dent, representing the British North Borneo Company in what is now the Malaysian state of Sabah.

In 1863 Dost Mohammad retook Herat with British acquiescence.

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

Kagoshima was bombarded by the British Royal Navy in 1863 to punish the daimyō of Satsuma for the murder of Charles Lennox Richardson on the Tōkaidō highway the previous year and its refusal to pay an indemnity in compensation.

Margaret Alice Murray ( 13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963 ) was a prominent British Egyptologist and anthropologist.

In 1863, the British settlement to the south of Suzhou Creek ( northern Huangpu District ) and the American settlement to the north ( southern Hongkou District ) joined in order to form the Shanghai International Settlement.

* 1863 – Arthur Henderson, British politician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1935 )

* December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith, British actor ( b. 1863 )

* September 6 – Reginald McKenna, British Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915 – 1916 ( b. 1863 )

* September 7 – Kenneth Robert Balfour, British Conservative Party politician ( b. 1863 )

* April 20 – Lady Duff Gordon, British fashion designer ( b. 1863 )

* July 18 – William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist ( d. 1863 )

Swami Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Dutta in Calcutta, the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival.

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

The Netherlands abolished slavery in 1863 and imported indentured labour force from the British Indian colonies and from the Dutch East Indies to keep the economy going.

The Dutch abolished slavery only in 1863 ; although the British had already abolished it during their short rule.

British Columbia also was expanded with the inclusion of the Stikine Territory in 1863, and upon joining Confederation with the addition of the Peace River Block, formerly part of Rupert's Land.

In 1863, the British, who were active in nearby Nigeria, bombarded the city, which persuaded the Kingdom of Porto-Novo to accept French protection.

In 1863 the Confederacy realized there was no longer any chance of intervention, and expelled the French and British consuls, who were advising their citizens not to enlist in the Confederate Army.

By the time British settlers arrived after 1863, most of these villages had been abandoned as the inhabitants were away fighting with the Kingitanga rebels further west in the battlefields of the upper Waipa river.

* Christabel Cockerell ( 1863 – 1951 ), British painter

George James Symons was elected to the council of the British meteorological society in 1863 and made it his life's work to investigate rainfall within the British Isles.

* Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe ( 1863 – 1949 ), British missionary and educationalist, working in Kashmir