* Kate Austin ( 1864 – 1902 ), American writer, feminist and anarchist

* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

* 1864 – Jean, duc Decazes, French aristocrat and sportsman ( d. 1912 )

* 1864 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet ( d. 1913 )

* 1864 – 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention.

* 1864 – Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast ( d. 1919 )

* 1916 – Roger Casement, Irish rebel ( b. 1864 )

* 1925 – William Bruce, Australian cricketer ( b. 1864 )

* Sebastian Osterrieder ( 1864 – 1932 ): sculptor

* 1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville – Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern – Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.

His sister was Lucy Aikin ( 1781 – 1864 ), a historical writer.

* 1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.

* 1864 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1936 )

* 1864 – The U. S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig.

* 1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American author ( d. 1916 )

* 1864 – Charles Lot Church, Canadian politician ( b. 1777 )

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.

* USS Little Ada ( 1864 ), steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War

* 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Mobile Bay begins – at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield – Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.

* 1810 – John Putnam Chapin, American politician ( d. 1864 )

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Marks ' Mills.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

* 1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder ( b. 1864 )

* 1864 – American Civil War: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid fails – plans to free 15, 000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.

* 1833 – James Ewell Brown " Jeb " Stuart, American Civil War figure ( d. 1864 )

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee occurs – the largest battle fought in Florida during the war.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.

George Washington Carver ( January 1864 – January 5, 1943 ), was an American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor.

However, a campaign to reconquer Peru and Chile during the Chincha Islands War ( 1864 – 1866 ) proved disastrous and Spain suffered defeat before the determined South American powers.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.

* 1864 – Joseph Baptista, Indian Home Rule Movement founder ( d. 1930 )

* 1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone ; 60, 000 die.

* Brajendra Nath Seal ( 1864 – 1938 ), an Indian humanist philosopher and educator

John Hanning Speke ( 4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864 ) was an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa and who is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile.

American Indian attacks increased after the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado in 1864, bringing more troops to the post, which was by now called Platte Bridge Station.

The First Battle of Adobe Walls took place in 1864 when General James H. Carleton sent Col. Christopher ( Kit ) Carson into the area to avenge for repeated Indian attacks.

Montour was founded near the villages of Insdian Village and Butlerville on the east side of Indian Creek upon the elevated bench on the south side of the Iowa River around 1864.

A copper mine was first opened in 1864 by the Winona Copper Mining Company identified by a line of Indian pits.

Early in 1864, Colonel William A. Philips set out with some 1500 Union troops from Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, to cut a swath through Confederate Indian Territory ( Oklahoma ).

Bain was also Examiner in Logic and Moral Philosophy from 1857 – 1862 and 1864 – 1869 for the University of London and also an Instructor in Moral Science for the Indian Civil Service examinations.

Among his epics, Carlo Zeno ( 1854 ), Maja ( 1864 ), dealing with an episode in the Indian Mutiny, and Merlins Wanderungen ( 1887 ).

The Sand Creek Massacre ( also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians ) was an atrocity in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70 – 163 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children.

He held various positions in Cabinet, including Solicitor General ( 1864 – 66 ), Postmaster General ( 1866 – 67 ), Secretary of State for Canada ( 1867 – 69 ), Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs ( 1868 – 69 ) and Minister of Public Works ( 1869 – 73 ).

Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer CB ( 9 October 1864 – 23 July 1927 ) was a British Indian Army officer who, as a temporary Brigadier-General, was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar ( in the British India province of Punjab ).

* Greene, Jerome A. Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864 – 1898.

* Michno, Gregory F. " Deadliest Indian War in the West: The Snake Conflict, 1864 – 1868 ", 360 pages, Caxton Press, 2007, ISBN 0-87004-460-5.

After a few attempts to negotiate in behalf of the complaining settlers, including failed attempts by Agent Lindsay Applegate in 1864 – 6 and Superintendent Huntigton in 1867, the Modoc finally relocated in 1869 following a council between Kintpuash ( also known as Captain Jack ); Alfred B. Meacham, the US Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon that replaced Huntigton ; O. C.

During that year ( 1864 ), Khan Bahadur Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Imam became the first Indian appointed to a police officer's post.

Watie took part in what is considered to be the greatest ( and most famous ) Confederate victory in Indian Territory, which took place at Cabin Creek in mid-September 1864.

For a time in 1864, Herold was employed in Brooklyn, New York, by Francis Tumblety, a quack " Indian Herb " doctor who would be arrested in St. Louis, Missouri in the manhunt following the Lincoln assassination and released for lack of evidence.

File: Seth Kinman Reclining. jpg | 1864 photo of Californian Seth Kinman displaying an Indian scalp ( front left ).

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

Naturalists associated with the Bombay Natural History Society like W. S. Millard ( 1864 – 1952 ) helped popularize the study of trees with books such as Some Beautiful Indian Trees ( coauthored with Ethelbert Blatter ).

William James Gordon VC ( 19 May 1864 – 15 August 1922 ) was a West Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.