President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in the Confederacy henceforth and forever free. Though this has no immediate impact - the Confederacy, after all, is not in Lincoln's control - emancipation becomes inextricably linked with war aims from this point on. Units made up of ex-slaves start to fight in the Union Army.
It was the second year of the American Civil War.
Plans are made to build the first transcontinental railroads in the United States.
The Pre-Raphaelite movement in England has its first successes. Christina Rossetti publishes Goblin Market and Other Poems,and her brother Dante's wife dies of an overdose of laudanum, inspiring him to paint pale, beautiful women.
See the following websites for timelines of events from 1862-1863:
http://timelines.ws/1862_1863.HTML
http://www.history.com/wt.do?year=1862
Simon Fraser died in 1862, August 18
Samuel Colt died of gout in 1862.
Henry A. Jackson was born in 1824.
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Many things happened to the European Empire and what truly happened was that it was near a collapse.
the Battle of Shiloh
Allegheny Arsenal happened in 1862.
Nueces massacre happened in 1862.
Battle of Aspromonte happened in 1862.
Romney Expedition happened in 1862.
Battle of Booneville happened in 1862.
The battle of Puebla happened on May 5, 1862.
The Battle of Shiloh, TN
Morrisite War happened in 1862-06.
It happened on September 12-17, 1862
The Long walk in 1862
Passage of the homestead act