March 29 » King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
April 20 » France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
April 25 » Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
August 13 » King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
September 22 » Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
Day of death February 17, 1864
The temperature on February 17, 1864 was about 1.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
February 17 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USSHousatonic.
February 29 » American Civil War: Kilpatrick–Dahlgren Raid fails: Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
July 19 » Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking: The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
August 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
September 7 » American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
December 8 » Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
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