The Bristol Port Railway and Pier company ( BPRP ) was founded in 1862 with the intent to build a single-track standard gauge railway the from Avonmouth to the city centre alongside the Avon.

As of 1862, Limburg became a railway hub and from 1886 a district seat.

The town subsequently lost its charter in 1862 but regained it in 1875 when the community's economy rebounded, mainly due to a growing railway industry.

Pavia railway station, opened in 1862, forms part of the Milan – Pavia – Genoa railway, and is also a terminus of four secondary railways, linking Pavia with Alessandria, Cremona, Vercelli and Piacenza.

Ferrara railway station, opened in 1862, forms part of the Padua – Bologna railway.

Carrickfergus railway station opened on 1 October 1862.

In 1861, Le Strange, as the principal landowner, became a director of the railway company and by 1862 the line had been built.

The railway was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1862 and the first sod was cut on Shrove Tuesday, 9 February 1864 by Isaac Holden, the chair of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Hinnerup Stationsby ( Hinnerup railway town ) was formed in 1862.

The first railway reached the village in 1862 with Sutton Bridge railway station.

On 17 January 1862, less than 17 years after the opening to Hereford, the canal was leased to the Great Western and West Midland Railways, with a view to converting it to a railway.

The opening of the midland railway line through the city in 1862 led to the development of a " railway station quarter " of the city.

In 1862 a railway connecting the Russian Empire and Imperial Germany was built, making Kaunas a significant railway hub with one of the first railway tunnels in the Empire, completed in 1861.

When the railway was opened in 1862, Løten Station became the new centre of trade and management.

The route through Eidskog became an important connection between the two countries ; this was strengthened with the opening of the Grenseban railway in 1862, which connected Christiania to Stockholm.

In 1862, with the opening of Kongsvingerbanen, the railway station was moved across the river to Skedsmo-but the name remained.

Finally in 1862 the decision was taken for the line have its own terminus in the Capital as befitted a national railway.

He sold the music hall to South Eastern Railway in 1862, and the site became Charing Cross railway station.

In his new capacity, Archibald was a leading proponent of provincial railway development, even following the economic downturn of 1862.

The railway opened for passengers from Watchet Junction ( east of Taunton ) to on 31 March 1862 ; goods traffic commenced in August.

The war also expanded with naval operations in 1862 when the CSS Virginia, formerly the USS Merrimack, damaged or destroyed three Union vessels in Norfolk, Virginia, before being engaged and damaged by the USS Monitor.

Revised and expanded, it was performed at the Crystal Palace in 1862 and was an immediate sensation.

Revised and expanded, it was performed at the Crystal Palace in 1862, a year after his return to London, and was an immediate sensation.

In April 1862 the Department was expanded to include the Departments of Norfolk and the Peninsula ( of Virginia ).

Constructed by the Union Army in the summer of 1862 and expanded in 1864, using soldiers and freed slaves, Fort Harker was built on a broad hill a quarter-mile east of the town of Stevenson.

In the First Legal Tender Act, Congress limited the Treasury's emission of United States Notes to $ 150, 000, 000 ; however, by 1863, the Second Legal Tender Act, enacted July 11, 1862, a Joint Resolution of Congress, and the Third Legal Tender Act, enacted March 3, 1863, had expanded the limit to $ 450, 000, 000, the option to exchange the notes for United States bonds at par had been revoked, and notes of $ 1 and $ 2 denominations had been introduced as the appearance of fiat currency had driven even silver coinage out of circulation.

On April 21, 1862, the First Congress expanded this to four admirals, ten captains, 31 commanders, 100 first lieutenants, 25 second lieutenants, and 20 masters in line of promotion ; additionally, there were to be 12 paymasters, 40 assistant paymasters, 22 surgeons, 15 passed assistant surgeons, 30 assistant surgeons, one engineer-in-chief, and 12 engineers.

* September 27, 1862, the Second Conscription Act: expanded the age range to 18 to 45, with implementation beginning on July 15, 1863

His other works include Atlas historique de la France accompagné d ' un volume de texte ( 1849 ); Histoire de France de 1453 à 1815 ( 1856 ), of which an expanded and illustrated edition appeared as Histoire de France depuis l ' invasion des Barbares dans la Gaule romaine jusqu ' à nos jours ( 1892 ); Histoire populaire de la France ( 1862 – 1863 ); Histoire populaire contemporaine de la France ( 1864 – 1866 ); Causeries de voyage: de Paris à Vienne ( 1864 ); and Introduction générale à l ' histoire de France ( 1865 ).

Then in 1862 the court was expanded to five justices with the addition of a fifth judicial district.

The court was expanded to five justices in 1862.

Once President Abraham Lincoln initiated a hands-off policy on Utah in 1862 during the American Civil War Pioneer Day was once again observed, and expanded into the surrounding areas as the Mormon Corridor spread throughout the Intermountain West.

Residential development began with the construction of Newark's first streetcar line in 1862, and expanded greatly in the 1880s.

The Department of the Rappahannock was formed April 4, 1862, from the original I Corps of the Army of the Potomac, to control the area east of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Potomac River, the Fredricksburg and Richmond Rail Road and the District of Columbia expanded to include the area between the Potomac and Patuxent Rivers.

In 1854 he published anonymously a volume of Psychological Inquiries — eight years later, the expanded, revised and updated 1862 volume appeared under his name.

In 1840 a pub called the Old Queen's Head was opened in the neighbouring building, and sometime after 1862 the pub expanded into this building.

Two days after McClellan's return to command, General Robert E. Lee's forces crossed the Potomac River into Maryland, leading to the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, and put into effect on January 1, 1863, declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states.

Pillow took up a position at nearby Clarksville, Tennessee and did not move into the fort itself until February 7, 1862.

* 1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.

This diluted the limited resources of the South and made it vulnerable to coordinated strategic thrusts by the Union into the vital Western Theater ( e. g., the capture of New Orleans in early 1862 ).

* 1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture.

* 1862 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.

* 1992 – El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.

In 1879, Camille Flammarion noted that the comets 1862 III and 1889 III had aphelia of 47 and 49 AU, respectively, suggesting that they might mark the orbital radius of an unknown planet that had dragged them into an elliptical orbit.

* 1862 – Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.

The type of gin used by Thomas was not specified in his 1876 book, but likely was Holland gin rather than English London Dry Gin since Jerry Thomas ' Gin Fizz ( 1862 ) called for Holland gin and Hollands Gin ( Jenever ) was imported into the United States at that time at a ratio of approximately 6 liters to every liter of English London Dry Gin.

Virginian general Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, and led invasions into Union territory, ultimately becoming commander of all Confederate forces.

* On 4 October 1992 – El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo airplane heading to Tel Aviv, suffered physical engine separation of both right-wing engines (# 3 and # 4 ) just after taking off from Schiphol and crashed into an apartment building in the Bijlmer neighbourhood of Amsterdam while attempting to return to the airport.

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was established in 1862 as the independent Glasgow Veterinary College, being subsumed into the University in 1949 and gaining independent Faculty status in 1969.

This string of Union defeats was interrupted in September 1862 when Lee moved into Maryland and his campaign was defeated by McClellan at the Battle of Antietam, but this represented no threat to Richmond.

On July 13, 1862, he led them into the First Battle of Murfreesboro, which Forrest is said to have won.

President Lincoln signed two Confiscation Acts into law, the first on August 6, 1861, and the second on July 17, 1862, safeguarding fugitive slaves from the Confederacy that came over into Union lines and giving them indirect emancipation if their masters continued insurrection against the United States.

On April 16, 1862 Lincoln signed a bill into law outlawing slavery in Washington D. C. and freeing the estimated 3, 500 slaves in the city and on June 19, 1862 he signed legislation outlawing slavery in all U. S. territories.

In July 1862, under the authority of the Confiscation Acts and an amended Force Bill of 1795, he authorized the recruitment of freed slaves into the Union army and seizure of any Confederate property for military purposes.

As early as 1862, during the Civil War, Grant had appointed the Ohio military chaplain John Eaton to protect and gradually incorporate refugee slaves in west Tennessee and northern Mississippi into the Union War effort, and pay them for their labor.

After the Southern states seceded in 1861 and most of their representatives resigned from Congress, the Republican Congress passed the bill ; it was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862.

Aided by the secession of many states that did not support the plans, this reconfigured Morrill Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862.

The Homestead Act of 1862, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.