Zebulon Baird Vance, Governor (Confederacy), died in 1894

Birth

Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies

Birth

Christian G K”rner, German lawyer, dies at 74

Death

Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La RŠgne Animal), dies at 62

Death

1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms

Event

John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies

Death

Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies

Death

Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies

Death

Alphonse Daudet, writer

Birth

L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon)

Birth

Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert and Sullivan)

Birth

Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician

Birth

US declares war on M‚xico, 2 months after fighting begins

Event

Johannes Haarklou, composer

Birth

Paul Klengel, composer

Birth

Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra)

Birth

Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art

Birth

Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)

Birth

Eugust Enna, composer

Birth

Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality

Event

-16] Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca Georgia

Event

Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35

Death

S Brownsville, TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed

Event

Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer

Birth

Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)

Birth