WHAT HAPPENED IN 1863.
Look what happened the 1863.

Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, declares his mission as "He whom God shall make manifest". (21. April 1863)

A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico. (30. April 1863)

American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins. (1. May 1863)

American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later. (2. May 1863)

American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops. (6. May 1863)

American Civil War: Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops. (10. May 1863)

American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign. (12. May 1863)

American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place. (14. May 1863)

Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language. (17. May 1863)

American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins. (18. May 1863)

American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege. (21. May 1863)

Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan. (21. May 1863)

American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana. (22. May 1863)

American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson. (27. May 1863)

During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City was captured by French troops. (7. June 1863)

American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia. (9. June 1863)

American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia. (14. June 1863)

Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War. (14. June 1863)

Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War. (17. June 1863)

American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. (20. June 1863)