By the end of 1863, at Lincoln's direction, General Lorenzo Thomas had recruited 20 regiments of blacks from the Mississippi Valley.

His Amnesty Proclamation of December 8, 1863, offered pardons to those who had not held a Confederate civil office, had not mistreated Union prisoners, and would sign an oath of allegiance.

* 1863 – The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.

Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.

In 1863 in what became known as the Garden of Ridván Bahá ' u ' lláh announced to a few that he was the manifestation of God and He whom God shall make manifest whose coming had been foretold by the Báb.

In his Manual of Geology, 1863, Dana says " The continents and oceans had their general outline or form defined in earliest time.

The independent Princedom of Serbia, had conducted the first population census in 1834 ; the subsequent censuses were conducted in 1841, 1843, 1846, 1850, 1854, 1859, 1863 and 1866 and 1874.

In his 1863 pamphlet, Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public, he outlined the details of a particular low-carbohydrate, low-calorie diet that had led to his own dramatic weight loss.

Butler developed the three chapters of Erewhon that make up " The Book of the Machines " from a number of articles that he had contributed to The Press, which had just begun publication in Christchurch, New Zealand, beginning with " Darwin among the Machines " ( 1863 ).

On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Andrássy resolutely defended the neutrality of the Austrian monarchy, and in his speech on 28 July 1870 warmly protested against the assumption that it was in the interests of Austria to seek to recover the position she had held in Germany before 1863.

From there, Clark went on to Paris, France, where in 1863, a group of racing enthusiasts had formed the French Jockey Club and had organized the Grand Prix de Paris, which at the time was the greatest race in France.

His parents, Seweryn and Ludwika Malewicz, were ethnic Poles who had fled to Ukraine in the aftermath of the January Uprising of 1863 and he was baptised in the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1863 she had to retire the first time on account of her husband ’ s serious mental illness.

Mitchell's grandparents, married in 1863, were Annie Fitzgerald and John Stephens, who had also emigrated from Ireland and was a Captain in the Confederate States Army.

He was the sixth child of Pieter Jiltes Tadema ( 1797 – 1840 ), the village notary, who had had three sons by a previous marriage, and the third child of his mother, Hinke Dirks Brouwer ( c. 1800 – 1863 ).

Note: The younger Smith wrote that Northup had visited his father sometime after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863.

Representative John Quincy Adams had made a proposal in 1839, but there were no new proposals until December 14, 1863, when a bill to support an amendment to abolish slavery throughout the entire United States was introduced by Representative James Mitchell Ashley ( Republican, Ohio ).

The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery in the United States, which had begun with President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Like Mansart's dome at Les Invalides ( which he had visited in 1838 ), Walter's dome is double, with a large oculus in the inner dome, through which is seen The Apotheosis of Washington painted on a shell suspended from the supporting ribs, which also support the visible exterior structure and the tholos that supports Freedom, a colossal statue that was added to the top of the dome in 1863.

In 1863 he went for a short coastal voyage to Wales, and gained a liking for the sea ; and in 1864 he joined a vessel bound for Canada, and had a narrow escape, nearly being crushed by an iceberg during the night.

He had also encountered Union Army balloons in 1863, during the American Civil War, where he was a military observer.

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

He married Helen Leech ( 1839 – 1932 ), the daughter of another wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge, at Gee Cross on 8 August 1863.

After the death of his father in 1862, Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff in 1863.

In 1863, Agassiz's daughter Ida married Henry Lee Higginson, later to be founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and benefactor to Harvard University and other schools.

1863 was to alter the course of Alma-Tadema's personal and professional life: on 3 January his invalid mother died, and on 24 September he was married, in Antwerp City Hall, to Marie-Pauline Gressin Dumoulin, the daughter of Eugene Gressin Dumoulin, a French journalist living near Brussels.

Edward and Alexandra married at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 10 March 1863.

They married eighteen months later in 1863, the same year her father became Christian IX of Denmark and her brother, George, was appointed King of Greece.

The couple were married on 10 March 1863 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, by Thomas Longley, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

After Alexandra married the Prince of Wales in 1863, a new park and " Palace of the People ", a huge public exhibition and arts centre under construction on a hilltop overlooking north London, were renamed the Alexandra Palace and park to commemorate her.

# Alexandra of Denmark ( 10 March 1863 – 22 January 1901 ) — The daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark, she married Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and became Princess of Wales on 10 March 1863.

Tree married actress Helen Maud Holt ( 1863 – 1937 ) in 1882 ; she often played opposite him and assisted him with management of the theatres.

Hawker's first wife, Charlotte, died in 1863 and the following year, aged 60, he married Pauline Kuczynski, aged 20.

Yeats married Susan Pollexfen ( 1841-1900 ) September 10, 1863 at St. John's Church, Sligo: they had six children:

In 1855, she married John Millais and eventually bore him eight children: Everett, born in 1856 ; George, born in 1857 ; Effie, born in 1858 ; Mary, born in 1860 ; Alice, born in 1862 ; Geoffroy, born in 1863 ; John in 1865 ; and Sophie in 1868.

* William McMechen ( 1807-1888 ), who married 1 ) Mary Blake in 1834 and 2 ) Lucinda Bonar in 1863.

Samuel Andrew Jackson Cockayne married Hannah Jane Alexander ( 1840 – 1917 ) in 1863.

He married Ekaterina Protopopova, a pianist, in 1863.

He married Rose Ellen Freer ( 1885 – 1958 ), daughter of Russell John Freer ( 1852 – 1932 ) and Annie Cecile Thornton ( 1863 – 1928 ), both of whom would later live with the Cicottes.

Meanwhile, his wife stayed at Antibes, where she had his children, the first of whom died in childhood: Marie Anne Elisabeth ( July 8, 1790-March 18, 1794 ), Jacques Prosper, 2nd Prince d ' Essling July 3, 1818 ( June 25, 1793-May 13, 1821 ), unmarried and without issue, Victoire Thècle ( September 28, 1794-March 28, 1857 ), married on September 12, 1814 Charles, Comte Reille ( Antibes, September 1, 1775-March 4, 1860 ), and François Victor, 2nd Duc de Rivoli, 3rd Prince d ' Essling ( April 2, 1799-April 16, 1863 ), married on April 19, 1823 Anne Debelle ( 1802-January 28, 1887 ), and had issue.

Phoebe married William Cunliffe on 9 May 1863 at Holy Trinity Church Eccleston.

He married in 1863.