February 1 » The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
May 9 » The figure who later became Mr. Punch makes his first recorded appearance in England.
August 24 » The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
October 17 » Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
December 1 » Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.
Day of burial December 14, 1864
The temperature on December 14, 1864 was about -1.6 °C. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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.
May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
May 15 » American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
May 22 » American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
August 23 » American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
October 31 » Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.
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