April 16 » Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
May 12 » American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
September 21 » American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
October 2 » American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
October 7 » American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
December 14 » Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York
Day of death May 23, 1864
The temperature on May 23, 1864 was about 11.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 27 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 41%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
April 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
April 29 » Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
May 29 » Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
June 29 » At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
September 7 » American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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