When her father died in 1864, she inherited $ 7. 5 million ($ 107 million in 2010 adjusted for inflation ) in liquid assets, against the objections of most of her family, and invested in Civil War war bonds.

* Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg_Gotha ( 1844 – 1900, GB ), invested 5 / 7 / 1864

On 25 May 1864, he was invested as a Knight of the Garter.

Booth, already growing more obsessed with the South's worsening situation in the Civil War and angered at Lincoln's re-election, withdrew from the oil business on November 27, 1864, with a substantial loss of his $ 6, 000 ($ 81, 400 in 2010 dollars ) investment.

* October 6 – The government of New Zealand agrees to pay $ 130 million dollars worth of compensation for the loss of land suffered by the Māori population between the years of 1844 and 1864.

The government acquired Arlington at tax sale in 1864 for $ 26, 800, equal to $ today.

( The dollar has been as high as US $ 2. 78, reached on 11 July 1864 after the United States had temporarily abandoned the gold standard.

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

The last of his holding was sold in a sheriff's sale in 1864 to Faxon Atherton for $ 400, 000.

Mr. Marshall charged up to $ 5. 00 per wagon and 25 cents per head of livestock to use his rope powered ferry across the Big Blue river, which operated until replaced by a bridge in 1864.

In 1864 Elmore Keys arrived and bought Prey's cabin for $ 20.

In 1864, after Bytown was chosen as the new capital of the Province of Canada, Rideau Hall was leased by the Crown from the McKay family for $ 4, 000 per year and was intended to serve only as a temporary home for the viceroy until a proper government house could be constructed.

The greatest differential in value of these currencies came in 1864, when the value of a gold dollar equaled $ 1. 85 in greenback currency.

Hugh Allan founded Merchant's Bank of Canada in Montreal, Quebec in 1864 with a capital of $ 6. 78 million and a reserve fund of $ 6. 8 million.

Between 1862 and 1864 he used salesmen and advertising to sell over US $ 500 million of war bonds at 6 % interest to support the Union in the American Civil War.

The federal government in 1864 had chartered a “ Union Pacific Railroad ,” with $ 100, 000, 000 capital, to complete a transcontinental line west from the Missouri River.

Mathew Brady portrait of Lincoln taken on February 9, 1864, used for the old $ 5 bill.

Following this crisis, Peabody began to retire from active business, and in 1864 retired fully ( taking with him much of his capital, amounting to over $ 10, 000, 000, or £ 2, 000, 000 ).

Elected to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1864, Clark secured a bond for the Town of Amherst enabling it to contribute $ 50, 000 to the construction of the college buildings.

It began operations in November 1864, and everyone who donated more than $ 25. 00 was given a membership in the Dubuque Town Clock Company, which owned the clock.

By the time the foundation was complete in September 1864, only $ 3. 03 was left in the treasury.

To finance their cause in October 1864, they robbed three banks in St. Albans, Vermont, killed a citizen, and escaped back across the border with $ 170, 000.

In 1864, the town launched Reuel Colt Gridley's impromptu fundraising drive that raised over $ 250, 000 for wounded Civil War veterans, by repeatedly auctioning a sack of flour.

The Hollins gave an additional $ 12, 500 in gifts before their deaths in 1859 and 1864 respectively, ensuring that Hollins would continue to exist.

A study of 65 predominantly Yankee counties showed that they voted only 40 % for the Whigs in 1848 and 1852, but became 61 – 65 % Republican in presidential elections of 1856 through 1864.

From 1833 to its demolition in the mid 1980s, the Salisbury Gas Light & Coke Company, who ran the city's gasworks were one of the major employers in the area. The company was formed in 1832 with a share capital of £ 8, 000, and its first chairman was The 3rd Earl of Radnor The company was incorporated by a private Act of Parliament in 1864, and the Gas Orders Confirmation Act 1882 empowered the company to raise capital of up to £ 40, 000.

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* William S. Hart ( 1864 – 1946 ), a classically trained Shakesperean actor, parlayed his fame on the Broadway stage to become a star, after the age of 40, of silent movies.

The fossil deposits, usually located approximately 40 m above sea level, have generated great interest in the scientific community, resulting in several palaeontological studies in the 18th century, including Georg Hartung ( 1860 ), Reiss ( 1862 ), Bronn ( 1860 ), Mayer ( 1864 ), Friedlander ( 1929 ) and José Agostinho ( 1937 ).

In 1864, the first 40 miles ( 64 km ) of the line to Lawrence was in operation.

St. Augustine's Roman Catholic church, erected in 1864 on the east side of John Street between Elizabeth and Market streets, at a cost of $ 40, 000, was dedicated May 6, 1866, by Bishop Conroy of Albany.

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

* 1864 – American Civil War: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid fails – plans to free 15, 000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1, 000 prisoners.

By the spring of 1864, 8, 000 Navajo men, women and children were forced to march or ride in wagons 300 miles ( 480 km ) from Fort Canby to Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

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

* 1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone ; 60, 000 die.

Its 1864 population of 7, 000 made it the largest city in the Northwest, bigger than Portland.

* the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway ( 31 miles ( including 135 bridges ), completed 1864, constructed for £ 267, 000 )

It was edited by Yale University editor Noah Porter and published in 1864, containing 114, 000 entries.

In 1864, the organization gathered 400, 000 signatures to petition the United States Congress, significantly assisting in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery.

In the spring of 1864, 8, 000 Navajo men, women and children were forced to march 300 miles to Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

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.

This standard was replaced by a law of June 26, 1864, only to be restored on October 19, 1868, when the Latin Monetary Union system was formally adopted, with the peseta weighing 5. 000 g, 0. 835 fine ( 4. 175 g fine silver ), and a duro or five-peseta piece weighing 25. 000 g, 0. 900 fine ( 22. 500 g fine silver ).

In 1864 the total rebelling Kingitanga population who went into hiding, was estimated at 15, 000, or about 25 % of the Māori population, although this number is uncertain as the rebels killed Pakeha, who went into the King Country and refused to complete the census.

While he confronted General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the eastern part of the state, Grant ordered Major General Franz Sigel's army of 10, 000 to secure the Valley and threaten Lee's flank, starting the Valley Campaigns of 1864.

For forty years Germanism, backed by all the weight of the empire and imposed with all the weapons of official persecution, had barely held its own in North Schleswig ; despite an enormous emigration, in 1905 139, 000 of the 148, 000 inhabitants of North Schleswig spoke Danish, while of the German-speaking immigrants it was found that more than a third spoke Danish in the first generation, although from 1864 onward, German had gradually been substituted for Danish in the churches, the schools, and even in the playground.

During the late 19th century, the population of Govan increased more than tenfold: from 9, 000 in 1864 to 95, 000 by 1907.