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Hinchliff's engraving of Marguerite de Navarre | Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, from an 1864 edition of The Heptaméron

John Jacob Astor, an engraving based on an 1864 portrait by Alonzo Chappell

File: AlabamaSinkingHarpers23July1864. jpg | Sinking of the CSS Alabama, engraving, Harper's Weekly Magazine, 23 July 1864.

File: CSS Alabama battle with USS Kearsarge. jpg | The Fight between the Alabama and the Kearsarge, 1864 engraving.

Members of the First Territorial Legislative Assembly approved an act, in the fall of 1864, creating a new seal and authorizing the secretary “ to entrust said seal to proper parties for engraving .” The seal was to be 2 inches in diameter and feature “ a view of San Francisco mountain in the distance, with a deer, pine trees, and columnar cactus in the foreground ; the motto to be ‘ Ditat Deus .’”

Hinchliff's engraving of Marguerite of Navarre, from an 1864 English edition of the Heptaméron

His 1864 engraving of the " Raising of Lazarus " by Sebastiano del Piombo took him eight years.

Portrait of Elisabeth depicting her long hair ( by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1864 ), one of two so-called " intimate " portraits of the empress ; although its existence was kept a secret from the general public, it was the emperor's favourite portrait of her and kept opposite his desk in his private study

A political cartoon from the 1864 election depicting William Pitt Fessenden | Secretary Fessenden of the Lincoln administration running " Chase's Mill " at left to flood the country with Greenbacks

Part of a woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniteru depicting Samurai under a Sonnō jōi banner during the 1864 Mito rebellion.

A political cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly on September 1, 1864 depicting Lincoln on a tightrope, pushing a wheelbarrow and carrying two men on his back-Navy Secretary Gideon Welles and War Secretary Edwin Stanton-while John Bull, Napoleon III, Jefferson Davis, and Generals Grant, Lee and Sherman, among others, looked on.

Barlow is featured in Winslow Homer's painting Prisoners from the Front, depicting a scene from a June 21, 1864, engagement at Petersburg, Virginia.

The park is divided into four distinct areas reflecting different time periods in Western Canadian history: the Hudson's Bay Company Fur Trading Fort ( although no Hudson's Bay Company fort ever existed in Calgary ), circa 1864 ; the Pre-Railway Settlement Village, circa 1880 ; the Railway Prairie Town, circa 1910 ; and the newly-opened ( 2009 ) Heritage Town Square, depicting the 1930s to 1950s.

Heade travelled in Brazil from 1863 to 1864, where he painted an extensive series of small works, eventually numbering over forty, depicting hummingbirds.

Of Halm's numerous other dramas we may mention the vivid and powerful Sampiero ( 1856, depicting the tragic loss of humanity attendant upon political fanaticism ); Iphigenie in Delphi ( 1856 ); Begum Somru ( 1863 ); Wildfeuer ( 1864 ); a German version of Shakespeare's Cymbeline that appeared on the stage in 1842, and an extremely effective and humorous comedy entitled Verbot und Befehl (" Prohibition and Decree ", 1856 ).

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10, 000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.

* From late December 1863 to 1864 the Montana Vigilantes were formed by citizens of Bannack, Virginia City and nearby Nevada City to fight lawlessness in the gold mining region of Montana.

Her fight against the Contagious Disease Act of 1864, and her founding of the International Abolitionist Federation in Geneva, Switzerland to curb the white slave trade ( Chataway, 1962, in Little, 1975: 391 ) served as a continual source of inspiration for Luisi ( Luisi, 1948: 24-26, in Little 1975: 391 ).

On May 28, 1864, while acting as aide, he voluntarily led a part of the line into the fight, and was twice wounded.

The Geneva Conventions are the result of a process that developed in a number of stages between 1864 and 1949 which focused on the protection of civilians and those who can no longer fight in an armed conflict.

Rodes continued to fight with Ewell's corps through the 1864 Overland Campaign of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

On May 15, 1864, the VMI Cadets earned distinction and fame at the Battle of New Market as the only Corps of Cadets in United States history to fight as a unit in battle.

Here the night of May 19, 1864, the Confederate Generals Johnston, Polk and Hood, conferred and decided to abandon Cassville and to move south of the Etowah, although Johnston originally had intended to fight here.

After the war he received a Medal of Honor for his actions during a preliminary action to the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, the fight at Alsop's farm at Laurel Hill, Virginia, on May 8, 1864.

In 1864, he marched his regiments to fight in South Carolina as a part of the Department of the South.

Thus, by 1864, the members of the X Club were joined in a fight, both public and private, to unite the London scientific community with the objective of furthering the ideas of academic liberalism.

Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.

Internally, the Taiping Rebellion ( 1851 – 1864 ), a quasi-Christian religious movement led by the " Heavenly King " Hong Xiuquan, would raid roughly a third of Chinese territory for over a decade until they were finally crushed in the Third Battle of Nanking in 1864.

* 1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.

* November 8 – U. S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George B. McClellan.

Despite over 70 rehearsals between 1862 and 1864, Tristan und Isolde was unable to be staged in Vienna, winning the opera a reputation as unperformable.

In 1864 the Democratic Party split into two wings, over the peace question.

In 1864, Itō returned to Japan with fellow student Inoue Kaoru to attempt to warn the Chōshū clan against going to war with the foreign powers ( the Bombardment of Shimonoseki ) over the right of passage through the Straits of Shimonoseki.

The issue of loyalty emerged in the debates over the Wade – Davis Bill of 1864.

The ensuing controversy over the location of the capital was settled in 1864 when Salem was confirmed as the state capital.

Broad-gauge lines in Britain were gradually converted to dual gauge or standard gauge from 1864, and finally the last of Brunel's broad gauge was converted over a single weekend in 1892.

In 1864, his personal worth was over $ 40, 000. 00, making him the second richest man in Arizona.

After Persia had been considerably weakened by its defeat in 1860, Imperial Russia stepped up its campaign to wrest full control over the Central Asian region from Persian dominance and on their way southward, the Russians took the city of Turkestan ( in present day Kazakhstan ) in 1864.

This period was a particularly eventful one in the world outside Britain, seeing the Unification of Italy, the American Civil War, and the 1864 war over Schleswig-Holstein between Denmark and the German states.

At the sale of his work in 1864, 9, 140 works were attributed to Delacroix, including 853 paintings, 1, 525 pastels and water colours, 6, 629 drawings, 109 lithographs, and over 60 sketch books.

In 1862 he took over the editorship of a newspaper, but in 1864 moved to Leipzig.

During Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's advance through Georgia in the spring of 1864, the Army of the Cumberland numbered over 60, 000 men, and Thomas's staff did the logistics and engineering for Sherman's entire army group, including developing a novel series of Cumberland pontoons.

During the First Anglo-Ashanti War ( 1863 – 1864 ), the two groups fought because of a disagreement over an Ashanti chief and slavery.

Following a dispute with Li Hongzhang over the execution of rebel leaders, Gordon withdrew his force from Suzhou and remained inactive at Kunshan until February 1864.

All of these choices were rejected by either Grant or the War Department and, over the objection of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who believed him to be too young for such a high post, Sheridan took command in both roles at Harpers Ferry on August 7, 1864.

The armies remained unengaged for over a month, causing political consternation in the North as the 1864 election drew near.

In 1864, Major John Chivington, a Colorado militia officer, attacked a peaceful village of Arapahos and Southern Cheyenne at Sand Creek in Colorado, killing over 150 Indians.

Hong Xiuquan ( 1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864 ), born Hong Renkun, style name Huoxiu ( 火秀 ), was a Hakka Chinese who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, establishing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over varying portions of southern China, with himself as the " Heavenly King " and self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ.

During the Chincha Islands War ( 1864 – 1866 ), Spain, under Queen Isabella II, attempted to exploit an incident involving Spanish citizens in Peru to re-establish Spanish influence over the guano-rich Chincha Islands, lost following the independence of Peru.

The Act followed the report of the Clarendon Commission, a Royal Commission on Public Schools which sat from 1861 to 1864 and investigated conditions and abuses which had grown up over the centuries at nine nationally famous charity schools, six of which were in London at the time, with three being provincial: