Editing 1864

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== Events ==
* January 24 - The Tauranga Campaign of of [[New Zealand Wars]] begins.
* May 21 - The Russian Empire begins the [[Circassian Genocide]]. More than 1.5 million Circassians are driven from their homeland to the Ottoman Empire, ending the Russo-Circassian War.
* June 21 - End of the Tauranga Campaign.
* July 19 - Nanjing is recaptured by Qing Chinese forces, ending the Taiping Rebellion. The surviving leaders of the Heavenly Kingdom (including [[Hong Xiuquan]]'s son and successor as Heavenly King, Hong Tianguifu) go on the run.
* October 25 - Hong Tianguifu is captured by the Qing Army, putting a definitive end to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
* November 15 - Union Army General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] begins his march to the sea, burning Atlanta and beginning to move South, living off the land, and causing extensive devastation to crops and mills.
* November 25 - A group of Confederate operatives, calling themselves the [[Confederate Army of Manhattan]], starts fires in more than 20 locations, in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
* November 29 - The [[Sand Creek Massacre]]: Colorado volunteers, led by Colonel [[John Chivington]], massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado (where they had been given permission to camp); many of the dead are subsequently mutilated.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* October 9 - [[Reginald Dyer]]
=== Victim births ===
* May 5 - Sir Henry Wilson

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* January 14 - [[Boone Helm]]