It took legal actions to force them to do so: in 1864 the Supreme Court of the State of California ordered them under Writs of Mandamus ( The People of the State of California ex rel the Central Pacific Railroad Company vs. Henry P. Coon, Mayor ; Henry M. Hale, Auditor ; and Joseph S. Paxson, Treasurer, of the City and County of San Francisco.

The railway line to Kingswear was opened in 1864, the original plans for the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway line took the line across a bridge and into the town.

In 1864, Ellen took up temporary residence in South Bend, Indiana, to have her young family educated at the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary's College.

He took up farming but died in June 1864 of pneumonia, aged 44.

It took place on July 30, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G. Meade ( under the direct supervision of the general-in-chief, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ).

The bill passed both houses of Congress on July 2, 1864, but was pocket vetoed by Lincoln and never took effect.

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.

The last battle of the Caucasian War took place at the Godlikh river on March 18, 1864 O. S., where the ubykhs were defeated by the Dakhovsky regiment of the Russian Army.

Originally named Sawamish County, it took its present name in 1864 in honor of Charles H. Mason, the first Secretary of Washington Territory.

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.

As a result, several significant cavalry actions took place in the county, particularly one fought at Trevilians in 1864.

On March 2, 1864, the Battle of Walkerton, an engagement of the American Civil War took place here, resulting in a Confederate victory.

Additional significant battles took place in 1864 during the Overland Campaign prior to and during the Siege of Petersburg, which led to the fall of Richmond.

One of the bloodiest engagements ever fought in the Shenandoah Valley took place on June 5, 1864 at the Battle of Piedmont, a Union victory that allowed the Union Army to occupy Staunton and destroy many of the facilities that supported the Confederate war effort.

The First Battle of Adobe Walls took place in 1864 when General James H. Carleton sent Col. Christopher ( Kit ) Carson into the area to avenge for repeated Indian attacks.

In 1864, two skirmishes between Union and Confederate soldiers took place just to the west of Spring Place, one of which took place on June 25, 1864 with the 8th Michigan Cavalry US.

A skirmish took place near Westfield late during the night of August 22, 1864.

When the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac was reorganized under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan in 1864, Custer took part in the various actions of the cavalry in the Overland Campaign, including the Battle of the Wilderness ( after which he ascended to division command ), the Battle of Yellow Tavern, where J. E. B.

On 19 June 1864, a naval engagement between USS Kearsarge and CSS Alabama, as part of the American Civil War, took place off Cherbourg.

* Chivington Drive, the council took the decision to rename the city street following two decades of protests that it honored Colonel John Chivington who was responsible for the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

Lassalle was the first president of this first German labour party, retaining the job from its formation on 23 May 1863 until his death on 31 August 1864.

Nearing's grandfather, Winfield Scott Nearing, had arrived in Tioga County with his family in 1864, at the age of 35, when he accepted a job as a civil and mining engineer.

In 1864, he got a job as a clerk for the United States Bureau of Agriculture and traveled the Eastern and Southern United States following the American Civil War.

Once Spofford learned of the retirement of Librarian of Congress John G. Stephenson, Spofford gathered enough political endorsements for the job which later led President Abraham Lincoln to promote Spofford to the post of Librarian of Congress in 1864.

In 1864 George Flett was given the job of opening a Hudson's Bay Company trading post in Fort Victoria.

He became Professor of Old Testament at the same institution in 1864.

He also examined in mental philosophy for the University of Glasgow from 1861 to 1864, and from 1866 conducted the moral philosophy classes at that university, until in 1868 he became Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh.

Upon returning to Philadelphia in 1864 the Cope family made every effort to secure Edward a teaching post as the Professor of Zoology at Haverford College, a small Quaker school where the family had philanthropic ties.

* Dr. Arden Bucholz, Distinguished Teaching Professor, published works include Moltke and the German Wars, 1864 – 1871, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2001.

From July 1863 until June 1864, he was acting assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army, after which he entered private practice in Brooklyn and advanced to become Professor of Disease of Women at Long Island College Hospital.

In his novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth ( 1864 ), Jules Verne makes reference to Boucher de Perthes after Professor Lindenbrock, Axel and, Hans discover " antediluvian " human heads on a beach near the center of the earth.

He held that post from 1825 to 1845, serving as Professor of Natural Theology and Geology from 1845 to his death in 1864.

In 1864 he was appointed Professor of Logic and English Literature at St Andrews University, in which capacity his mind was drawn to the study of Shakespeare, and he contributed to the Edinburgh Review and Fraser's Magazine valuable papers ( chiefly relating to his vocabulary and the extent of his learning ) afterwards collected as Shakespeare Studies.

Dunér received his doctorate from Lund University in 1862, was observer at the observatory there from 1864 and Professor of Astronomy at Uppsala University from 1888.

In 1864, as a result of ill-health and depressed by his failure to be appointed Oxford University's inaugural Chichele Professor of Modern History and his low salary at King's College, he took a year off in South Australia.

He was Librarian of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1860 – 1890 and Keeper there from 1864 – 1890, and Professor of Botany at University College, London from 1861 – 1888.

Then came JG Lockhart in 1821 ; Professor Wilson, 1822 and 1850, two portraits ; Sir Archibald Alison, 1839 ; Dr Chalmers, 1844 ; a little later De Quincey, and Sir David Brewster, 1864.

During his tenure, the separation from the Dutch Reformed Church was about complete, and with the development of the Rutgers Scientific School ( established with the assistance of Professor George H. Cook for whom it was later renamed ), Rutgers beat out the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) to be designated by the state legislature as New Jersey's land-grant college in 1864 under the Morrill Act of 1862.

* Francis Oliver ( 1864 – 1951 ), palaeobotanist, Quain Professor of Botany, University College, London, 1890 – 1929, and Professor of Botany, University of Cairo, 1929 – 1935

He then accepted a position as Yale University's first Professor of Zoology, and taught there from 1864 until his retirement in 1907.

* Thomas Turton DD ( 1780 – 1864 ), mathematician and Anglican bishop, appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University in 1822, Dean of Westminster from 1842 and Bishop of Ely 1845

* ' Letter from John Kirk to Professor Balfour ', Transactions of the Botanical Society ( 1864 ), 8, 110-1.