In history, year 1864 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1864.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 20 february | American Civil War-The Union suffered one of its bloodiestlosses at the Battle of Olustee near Lake City, Florida. |
| 11 march | A crack in the Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, England, caused itto fail, and the resulting flood killed 238 people and damaged more than600 homes. |
| 12 march | American Civil War: The Union Army began the ill-fated Red River Campaign, in which not a single objective was fully accomplished. |
| 08 april | American Civil War-A decisive Confederate victory in the Battle of Mansfield stopped the advance of the Union Army's Red River Campaign. |
| 25 april | American Civil War-Confederate troops overwhelmed a small Union detachment, leading to Union abandonment of their position in Camden, Arkansas. |
| 05 may | American Civil War-Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia began with the Battle of the Wilderness in Spotsylvania County. |
| 07 may | The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide Was launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. |
| 15 may | American Civil War-A small Confederate force, which includedcadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union Army outof the Shenandoah Valley. |
| 21 may | American Civil War-The Union and Confederate armies fought to a draw at the Battle of Spot sylvania Court House, with nearly 32,000 casualties combined. |
| 12 june | Union General Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of theBattle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the American Civil War. |
| 29 june | Canada's worst railway accident took place when a passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. |
| 11 july | American Civil War-Confederate forces under Jubal Early beganan unsuccessful attempt to capture Washington, D.C.. |
| 22 july | American Civil War-Confederate forces unsuccessfully attacked Union troops at the Battle of Atlanta. |
| 05 august | American Civil War-Rear Admiral David Farragut successfully led the Union fleet through a mine field to victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay. |
| 10 august | After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refused Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announced that the Brazilian military would begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War. |
| 18 august | American Civil War-At the Battle of Globe Tavern, Union forces attempted to sever the Weldon Railroad during the Siege of Petersburg. |
| 22 august | The Red Cross movement led by Henry Dunant officially beganwhen twelve European nations signed the First Geneva Convention,establishing the International Committee of the Red Cross. |
| 02 september | American Civil War-Union forces entered Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city, bringing the Atlanta Campaign to a close. |
| 15 october | American Civil War-The Confederates captured Glasgow,Missouri, although it had little long-term benefit as Price's Missouri Expedition was defeated a week later. |
| 19 october | American Civil War-Despite incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates, the Union Army emerged victorious in the Battle of Cedar Creek. |
| 04 november | American Civil War-Nathan Bedford Forrest led a cavalry division in an attack on a Union Army supply base at Johnsonville,Tennessee, capturing 150 prisoners. |
| 15 november | American Civil War-Union Army General William T. Sherman beganhis 'March to the Sea', inflicting significant damage to property andinfrastructure on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. |
| 29 november | American Indian Wars-A 700-man Colorado Territory militia attacked a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, killing 133 Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children. |
| 30 november | American Civil War-The Confederate States Army suffered its worst disaster of the war as the Army of Tennessee conducted numerous successful frontal assaults against fortified positions at Franklin, Tennessee. |
| 15 december | American Civil War-Union troops defeated the Army of Tennessee, one of the largest Confederate forces, at the Battle of Nashville. |
| 29 June | Nearly 100 people were killed when a train fell into the Richelieu River on the Grand Trunk railway line near Mont St Hilary town in Quebec, Canada. |
| 15 July | In the US, a passenger train loaded with prisoners crashed into a coal train, killing 65 people and wounding 109 out of 955. |
| 05 October | About 50,000 people died due to the cyclone in Calcutta city. |
| 20 October | US President Abraham Lincoln declared \ 'Thanksgiving Day \' as a national holiday. |
| 29 October | Greece adopted the new constitution. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 January | Alfred Stieglitz / Photographer / United States of America |
| 03 June | Ransom E. Olds / Business Man / United States of America |
| 04 January | Clara Emilia Smitt / Author / Sweden |
| 05 October | Louis Lumière / Producer / France |
| 06 April | William Bate Hardy / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 09 June | Jeanne Bérangère / Actress / France |
| 09 October | Reginald Dyer / General / United Kingdom |
| 09 January | Vladimir Steklov / Mathematician / Russia |
| 10 September | Carl Correns / Geneticist / Germany |
| 11 June | Richard Strauss / Composer / Germany |
| 12 March | W. H. R. Rivers / Anthropologist / United Kingdom |
| 12 March | Charles Young / Colonel / United States of America |
| 13 March | Alexej von Jawlensky / Painter / Russia |
| 14 June | Alois Alzheimer / Neuropathologist / Germany |
| 17 September | Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky / Writer / Ukraine |
| 20 October | James F. Hinkle / Politician / United States of America |
| 21 April | Max Weber / Economist / Germany |
| 23 May | William O'Connor / Fencer / United States of America |
| 28 October | Adolfo Camarillo / Rancher / United States of America |
| 30 June | Frederick Bligh Bond / Archaeologist / United Kingdom |
