* 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 – 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.

Eleftherios Venizelos ( 1864 – 1936 ), major political figure of 20th century, was born in Chania.

* Eleftherios Venizelos ( 1864 – 1936 ), Greek revolutionary, statesman and charismatic leader in the early 20th century

Eleftherios Venizelos ( full name Elefthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, Greek: Ἐλευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος ; ; 23 August 1864 – 18 March 1936 ) was an eminent Greek revolutionary, a prominent and illustrious statesman as well as a charismatic leader in the early 20th century.

It is certain that Antonis Benakis, the founder of the Benaki Museum, was influenced by the example of his father Emmanuel Benakis ( 1843 – 1929 ), and the great statesman Eleftherios Venizelos ( 1864 – 1936 ), a close friend and colleague.

* Eleftherios Venizelos ( 1864 – 1936 ), Greek politician

This is a list of the British High Commissioners of the Ionian Islands ; ( as well as the transitional Greek Governor, appointed a year prior to Enosis ( Union ) with Greece in 1864 ).

Hymn to Liberty was also the Greek Royal Anthem ( since 1864 ).

As a scholar he is best known for his edition of the Greek New Testament ( 1856 – 1860 ), and the Old Testament ( 1864 – 1870 ), with commentaries ; but his writings were many in number, and included a volume of devotional verse, The Holy Year ( 1862 ), Church History up to A. D. 451 ( 1881 – 1883 ), and Memoirs of his uncle, William Wordsworth ( 1851 ), to whom he was literary executor.

It culminated in 1864, when the country clergy, provoked by the final acquittal of the essayists, had voted in convocation against the endowment of the Greek chair.

In 1864 he was appointed to help William Duguid Geddes with his Greek classes, but he devoted his vacations to working on philosophy.

In particular, after the creation of Greece in 1830, the following regions were annexed and still are Greek territory: Ionian Islands ( 1864 ), Thessaly ( 1881 ), southern Macedonia, Crete, southern Epirus and the Eastern Aegean Islands ( 1913 ), Western Thrace ( 1920 ), and the Dodecanese ( 1947 ).

In 1864, together with the rest of the Heptanese, Paxos was ceded to the Greek state.

In 1864, Zakynthos, together with all the other Ionian Islands, became a full member of the Greek state, ceded by Britain to stabilize the rule of the newly crowned Danish-born King of the Hellenes, George I.

In 1864 he was transferred to the Greek court to advise the young Danish Prince.

In 1864, the remains of a postern located on the Outer Wall at the end of the Theodosian Walls, between tower 96 and the so-called Palace of the Porphyrogenitus, were discovered and identified with the Kerkoporta by the Greek scholar A. G. Paspates.

* In 1864 purchased more than one hundred Greek manuscripts ( 532-546 ) from Janina ( Epirus ), transported them to England between 1870 and 1872 and presented them to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, they were housed at the Highgate, in London

In 1820 he was appointed assistant professor of Greek and Latin in his old college, full professor ten years later, and at the same time headmaster of the grammar school attached to the college, which post he held until 1864.

" However, Gilbert did write a series of humorous sketches parodying the Greek myths, mainly the heroes of the Iliad, for the illustrated magazine Fun in 1864, and Pygmalion and Galatea, which he produced just before Thespis, was a more serious treatment of Greek mythology.

* Spyros Spyromilios ( 1864 – 1930 ), Greek Gendarmerie officer, declared the region's autonomy ( 1914 ).

Though he wrote several inflammatory theological pamphlets, such as The Liturgy and the Dissenters ( 1860 ) and Leaves from an Egyptian Notebook ( 1888 ), he is chiefly remembered today for his archaeological and philological studies, which include Words and Places ( 1864 ), Etruscan Researches ( 1874 ), The Alphabet ( 1883 ), and Greeks and Goths ( 1879 ), in which he argued that the runes were derived from a variety of the Hellenic alphabet used in the Greek colonies on the Black Sea about the 6th century B. C.

This privilege may have derived from the Greek Constitution of 1864, but it resulted in the formation of weak minority governments based exclusively on the royal favor.

His widely known composition was until recently the musical setting for the poem of Dionysios Solomos ' Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían ( Hymn to Liberty, 1829 – 1830 ), the first and second stanzas of which were adopted initially in 1864 as the Royal Anthem of Greece and on 28 June 1865 as the Greek national anthem.

He now began to advocate the use of Greek as a universal language, and published many works, among which were: " Les Trois Grands Peuples Méditerranéens et le Christianisme ," Paris, 1864 ; " Origines Bouddhiques de la Civilisation Américaine ," in the " Revue Archéologique ," Sept., 1864, and April, 1865 ; and " Texte Primitif du Premier Récit de la Création ," Paris, 1875 ; reprinted after his death under the title " Mélanges de Critique Biblique.