During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!

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

During the U. S. Presidential Election of 1864, Douglass supported John C. Frémont.

During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern.

During the 19th century, after Schleswig-Holstein had come under the government of Prussia ( from 1871 the German Empire ) following the Second Schleswig War in 1864, a combination of naval interests — the German navy wanted to link its bases in the Baltic and the North Sea without the need to sail around Denmark — and commercial pressure encouraged the development of a new canal.

During 1864, he became the curate at Horbury Bridge, West Riding of Yorkshire.

During the summer of 1864, Tadema met Ernest Gambart, the most influential print publisher and art dealer of the period.

During the American Civil War, U. S. Army General Philip Sheridan's stripping of the Shenandoah Valley, beginning on September 21, 1864 and continuing for two weeks, was considered " total war ".

During a spell as organist at Covent Garden, he composed his first ballet, L ' Île Enchantée ( 1864 ), and had his first experience of opera, which was directed there by Michael Costa.

During the British occupation, in 1814, the leprosarium was once again opened after renovations, and following Enosis in 1864 the leprosarium again saw occasional use.

During the January Uprising, several skirmishes took place in the area of Częstochowa, with the last one taking place on July 4, 1864 near Chorzenice.

During the American Civil War, Union General Ulysses S. Grant used City Point as his headquarters during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865.

During 1863 – 1864 it was a real shadow government supported by majority of Poles, who even paid taxes for it, and was a significant problem for Russian secret police ( Okhrana ).

During the war he lived partly in New Orleans and partly abroad, spending time in Havana ( 1862, 1864 ) and Paris ( 1863, 1867 ).

During the Civil War the Battle of New Market took place May 15, 1864.

During the Civil War, the Battle of the Wilderness took place in the County in May 1864.

During the Civil War, John S. Mosby, " the Gray Ghost " of the Confederacy, raided General Sheridan's supply train in the summer of 1864, in Berryville.

During the Civil War, Jackson County was the scene of several engagements, the most notable of which was the Battle of Westport, sometimes referred to as " the Gettysburg of Missouri ," in 1864.

During the war, Southern Home Guard units sometimes lynched white Southerners whom they suspected of being Unionists or deserters ; one example of this was the hanging of Methodist minister Bill Sketoe in the south Alabama town of Newton in December 1864.

During the Battle of Meridian in 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman led troops into the city, destroying the railroads in every direction, an arsenal, immense storehouses, and burning much of the area to the ground, Sherman is reported to have said afterwards, " Meridian, with its depots, store-houses, arsenal, hospitals, offices, hotels, and cantonments no longer exists.

During 1864, he led the storied Woolsey Expeditions to the east in retaliatory raids on Apache and in search of gold ; all failed to find a new Eldorado.

During the American Civil War, Camden was occupied for several months in 1864 by Union soldiers as part of the Union army's ill-fated Red River Campaign.

During the flood of 1864, the army camp was covered with water, and the soldiers had to suddenly flee to higher ground.

During the American Civil War, it was named Lovejoy's Station, and was the site of the Battle of Lovejoy's Station during the Atlanta Campaign of 1864.

During the American Civil War of 1864 by following Atlanta campaign, both Confederate and Union troops came to Cave Spring for hospitalization and rest from fighting on the battlefields before Atlanta.

During the late 1950s, Chief Judge Elbert Tuttle and his three colleagues John Minor Wisdom, John Brown, and Richard Rives became known as the " Fifth Circuit Four ", or simply " The Four ", for decisions crucial in advancing the civil rights of African-Americans.

During the radio-broadcast debate, Tuttle asked a series of humorous local knowledge questions rather than political questions.

During a game on March 22, 1989, between the visiting St. Louis Blues and Malarchuk's Buffalo Sabres, Steve Tuttle of the Blues and Uwe Krupp of the Sabres became entangled while chasing the puck and crashed into Malarchuk's goal.

During the last years of his life, Tuttle was facially disfigured due to extensive surgery for oral cancer.

During a goalmouth collision between the Blues ' Steve Tuttle and the Sabres ' Uwe Krupp, Tuttle's skate blade slashed the throat of Buffalo goaltender Clint Malarchuk, severing the latter's jugular vein.

During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Wendell formed part of a fraternity of network staff announcers who held lifetime contracts ; his colleagues were Don Pardo, Wayne Howell, Fred Facey, Bill McCord, Roger Tuttle and Howard Reig.

During these years the company's product line followed the basic tenets laid down by Mr. Brown.

During this time, the groundwork was laid down for modern day fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, with other less scientifically-inclined enthusiasts testing various flying machines with little success.

During early summer 2002, Rosa suddenly laid down work.

During the War of the Spanish Succession Alberoni laid the foundation of his political success by the services he rendered to Louis-Joseph, duc de Vendôme, commander of the French forces in Italy, to whom the duke of Parma had sent him.

During periods of submersion, thick layers of limestone were laid down over the old igneous and metamorphic rock.

During the Polish – Soviet War, Lithuania signed the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union that laid out Lithuania's frontiers.

During the early modern period, scientists such as Galileo, Kepler, and especially Newton, laid the foundation for what is now known as classical mechanics.

During the Mediaeval period, the foundation was laid for the notational and theoretical practices that would shape western music into what it is today.

During his time here he has forcibly subjugated the island, enslaved the Amerindians and laid the basis for a system of land grants tied to the Amerindians ' labor service.

During the 6th-7th centuries the area around Thessaloniki was invaded by Avars and Slavs, who unsuccessfully laid siege to the city several times.

During the Breton War of Succession, in 1356 and 1357, the city was laid siege to by Henry of Grosmont, the Duke of Lancaster, cousin of the English king, but Bertrand du Guesclin slipped into the city and took over the resistance, which would ultimately be victorious.

During a long tenure of office, mainly as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state.

During the 1960s and 70s, his cousins Maria Molinas Bertoleoni ( 1869 – 1974 ) and Laura Molinas Bertoleoni ( d. 1979 ), both daughters of Mariangela and Bachisio Molinas, also laid claim to the vacant " throne ".

During this period greater emphasis was laid upon the civil service system of recruiting officials ; this was based upon degrees acquired through competitive examinations, in an effort to select the most capable individuals for governance.

During the 1870s, muskeg in Northern Ontario was reported to have swallowed a railroad engine whole when a track was laid on muskeg instead of clearing down to bedrock.

During the summer after two thirds of the new stadium was complete, the northern and western stands would be demolished and a new pitch laid.

During the Mexican-American War, Zachary Taylor laid out the Old Military Road to supply his men in northern Mexico.

During the decline of the Western Roman Empire, Heruls, Vandals, Alaric and his Visigoths, as well as the Huns laid waste to the area, but the city recovered after the Ostrogoth conquest in 489 AD, before passing to Byzantine rule soon after.

During the 1840s many of the streets laid out by the town fathers had yet to be opened to traffic.

* During 1881 & 1882, railroad tracks were laid down and a railroad station was built.

During the summer of 1854 track crews from ICRR laid out of track between Scales Mound and Apple River and trains were running the line the day after completion.

During the summer of 1894, the Towson Water Company laid wooden pipes and installed fire hydrants that were connected to an artesian well near Aigburth Vale.

During the Great Depression, the mills shut down for a period and workers were laid off.

During the 17th century, Ninove was crippled under the indemnities laid on it by the warring parties and the town faced a big economic crisis as its cloth industry went into decline.