Historical Events in 1862
43 curated events dated to this year, and 180 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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The Invention of Pasteurization by Louis Pasteur
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Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)
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Christina Rossetti Publishes 'Goblin Market'
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Death of Coventry Patmore's First Wife
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Emily Dickinson Begins Corresponding with Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Homestead Act of 1862
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Publication of 'Fly Leaves'
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Publication of 'The Morgesons'
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USS Monitor Fights at Hampton Roads
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Battle of Fredericksburg
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Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing)
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CSS Virginia Sinks USS Cumberland
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Death of Mary Anne Procter
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John Ericsson's Steam-Powered 'Monitor' Fights in the American Civil War
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Publication of 'The Dorsetshire Poems'
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Robert Smalls Commandeers Confederate Ship to Freedom
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Travel to the Middle East
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Battle of Fort Donelson
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Capture of New Orleans
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Dakota War Executions at Mankato
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Education at Douai
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Final illness and hospitalization
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First Known Poem Published in the Springfield Republican
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Friendship with George MacDonald
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Glaisher and Coxwell's Record Altitude Flight
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Hardy Moves to London to Work for Arthur Blomfield
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Ironclad Warships in American Civil War
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Mallarmé's First Published Poem
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Marriage to Anna F. Smith
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Parkesine Demonstrated at Great Exhibition
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Penn School Founded for Freedmen on St. Helena Island
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Privy Council Reports Diseased Meat in England and Wales
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Typhus Kills Thousands in the American Civil War
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Verlaine's Education at Lycée Bonaparte
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Balloon Reconnaissance in American Civil War Battles
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Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern)
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Birth of Son, George Edward Cayley
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Nesbit Family Moves to France
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Alexander Parkes Develops Early Thermoplastic
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Friendship with Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Prince of Wales (Future Edward VII) Receives Tattoo in Jerusalem
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Publication of 'The Human Tragedy'
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Travel to America
Poets alive in 1862
180 poets
Poets in 1862
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