As a composer, Balakirev finished major works many years after he had started them ; he began his First Symphony in 1864 but completed it in 1897.

If this was how Balakirev had actually planned the movement in 1864, it would predate the late symphonies of Jean Sibelius in utilizing this compositional principle.

* Paraguayan War ( 1864 – 1870 ): Over 200, 000 Brazilians fought on this conflict, which is considered as the most serious in Brazilian history.

By early 1864, they had a producing deep oil well, named Wilhelmina for Mears ' wife, yielding 25 barrels ( 4 kL ) of crude oil daily, then considered a good yield.

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 ".

By Wednesday September 7, 1864, the delegates from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island gave a positive answer to the Canadian delegation, expressing the view that the federation of all of the provinces was considered desirable if the terms of union could be made satisfactory and the question of Maritime Union was waived.

After the fall of Atlanta in September 1864, President Davis considered replacing John Bell Hood in command of the Army of Tennessee and he asked Robert E. Lee to find out if Beauregard would be interested.

In Subgeneation: the theory of the normal relations of the races ; an answer to miscegenation ( 1864 ) Van Evrie created the words “ subgen ” to describe what he considered to be the " inferior races " and “ subgeneation ” to describe the ‘ normal ’ relation of such inferior races to whites, something which he considered to be the " very corner-stone of democracy "; but these words never entered the dictionary.

The company considered several potential plant sites in Knoxville, Etowah, and Monroe County, but chose North Maryville due in part to the influence of Maryville mayor Samuel Everett ( 1864 – 1941 ).

According to legal documents recently found in the U. S. National Archives of San Francisco, California, it has been proven that at least until 1864, Pisco was considered in the United States a liquor native only to the Republic of Peru.

His superior, Ulysses S. Grant, considered it a strategic distraction, as he wanted Banks to drive east to capture Mobile, Alabama, as part of a coordinated series of offensives in the spring of 1864.

Widely considered Foley ’ s finest work, the foundation stone was laid in 1864 and the monument unveiled to enormous crowds in 1882.

Before that, simply as brigadeiro, it existed from 1707 to 1864 and again from 1929 to 1947, not being considered a general rank.

In 1864 he published a small volume, entitled Pure Logic ; or, the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity, which was based on Boole's system of logic, but freed from what he considered the false mathematical dress of that system.

* A fourth scenario, that Schleswig and Holstein should both be incorporated into Prussia as a mere province, was hardly considered before or during the war of 1864.

Appointed to the Nova Scotia legislative council as Solicitor General in 1864, he was a delegate to the London Conference on Canadian Confederation and as such is considered one of the Fathers of Confederation.

The minutes of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce meeting in Hong Kong, where a letter setting out his ideas was considered on 7 March 1864, state that “ the opinions of the Chamber in respect to his suggestions should be recorded in the form of a letter, to the effect that the Committee deem it essential for the advancement of the project that short lines of railway should at first only be tried, and that it is not advisable at present to interfere with any water communications which are already established and can generally be worked more cheaply than railway traffic .”

Sir Apolo Kagwa ( standard Luganda orthography spelling Kaggwa ) KCMG MBE ( 1864 – 1927 ) is considered Buganda's first and foremost ethnographer.

By 1864, the Tories had coined the phrase ‘ Fenianism ’ to describe all that was considered potentially bothersome among Irishmen on both sides of the Atlantic.

He was briefly considered as a vice presidential running mate for Abraham Lincoln in 1864.

From 1864 onwards, the Hurva Synagogue was considered the most beautiful and most important synagogue in the Land of Israel.

The 1861 article by Jambakur-Orbeliani and the 1864 article by Machabeli are considered as the first published works where some aspect of Georgian folk music were discussed.

Robert Ezra Park ( February 14, 1864 – February 7, 1944 ) was an American urban sociologist who is considered to be one of the most influential figures in early U. S. sociology.

Watie took part in what is considered to be the greatest ( and most famous ) Confederate victory in Indian Territory, which took place at Cabin Creek in mid-September 1864.

Elinor Glyn ( 17 October 1864 – 23 September 1943 ), born Elinor Sutherland, was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in risque romantic fiction which was considered scandalous in its time.

His son, Gilbert Augustin Thierry ( 1843 – 1915 ), who began a literary career by articles on Les Révolutions d ' Angleterre ( 1864 ) and some Essais d ' histoire religieuse ( 1867 ), afterwards confined himself to the writing of novels.

It was about 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse, and some of his earliest work was his best.

Dostoyevsky was writing in 1864.

Herbert Spencer first used the phrase – after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species – in his Principles of Biology ( 1864 ), in which he drew parallels between his own economic theories and Darwin's biological ones, writing, " This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called ' natural selection ', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

Herbert Spencer first used the phrase — after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species — in his Principles of Biology of 1864 in which he drew parallels between his economic theories and Darwin's biological, evolutionary ones, writing, “ This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called ' natural selection ', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

He showed his gratitude to this establishment by writing its history in three volumes, published between 1860 and 1864.

( Mark Grimsley, writing in The Hard Hand of War, argues that by 1864 Lee was receiving most of his supplies from the Deep South, so that the agricultural importance of the Valley has been overstated.

In 1864 Taylor and his wife Maria returned to the United States, where he resumed writing at their home near Kennett Square.

Albrecht Weber, writing in 1864, came to a similar conclusion.

Calhoun surrendered the city on September 2, 1864, writing, " Sir: The fortune of war has placed Atlanta in your hands.

Another factor involves Lincoln's letter writing habits, especially in November 1864 when the Bixby letter was composed.

November 1864 happened to be a busy month for Lincoln though, with Hay writing in a letter that very month noting the president's lack of time to engage in correspondence.

He systematically devoted part of each day to writing Tuscan Sculptors, published in London in 1864, which brought him a European reputation.

After writing scientific and popular papers on the subject ( in the London Medical Review, 1862, and the Cornhill Magazine respectively ), Anstie brought out in 1864 his important work on Stimulants and Narcotics, containing the result of experiments, observations, and literary research, and these subjects continued to occupy his attention till the last year of his life.

The opera was first performed in France on 6 December 1856 in Italian by the Théâtre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris, and on 27 October 1864 in French as Violetta ( an adaptation by Édouard Duprez, older brother of the tenor Gilbert Duprez ) at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Place du Châtelet with Christine Nilsson in the title role.

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.

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.

After four years ' study in Paris, she had her operatic début 1864 as Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris.

It was during this period that Rubinstein drew his greatest success as a composer, beginning with his Fourth Piano Concerto in 1864 and culminating with his opera The Demon in 1871.

Giacomo Meyerbeer ( born Jacob Liebmann Beer ) ( 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864 ) was a German opera composer, who with his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors gave the genre of grand opera ' decisive character '.

* Pique Dame – Opera – June 22, 1864, Graz ( revision of Die Kartenschlägerin ; based on the same story by Pushkin as was Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades )

** Joseph O ' Mara, opera singer ( born 1864 ).

In the early 1860s, the construction of the new opera house relaunched the project by a decree of 24 August 1864.

Meyerbeer died on 2 May 1864 ; his late opera, L ' Africaine, was premiered posthumously in 1865.

In 1856 a cantata, Robin Hood, was given at the Bradford festival, and a third opera, Rose, or Love's Ransom, at Covent Garden in 1864, without much success.

This was followed by La Chercheuse d ' Esprit ( 1864 ), a comic opera, also produced at Marseille.

An international competition for the creation of the opera house was announced by the Palermo Council in 1864, primarily at the instigation of the mayor, Antonio Starrabba di Rudinì.

Joseph O ' Mara ( 16 July 1864 – 5 August 1927 ) was an Irish opera singer of the Victorian era.

In 1864 Bendl went to Brussels, where for a short time he held the post of second conductor of the opera.