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| | | It is discovered in the US that wood pulp can be used to make paper, and the Boston Weekly Journal is the first to use the new substance | |
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| 1863 |
| | | British officer Charles Gordon leads untrained auxiliaries against the Taiping rebels in China, becoming known as Chinese Gordon | |
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| 1863 |
| | | Samuel Clemens uses the pseudonym Mark Twain for the first time on an article in Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise | |
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| 1863 |
| | | British architect George Gilbert Scott designs a memorial for Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens | |
|  | Sculptural group, Albert Memorial
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| 1863 |
| | | Mobs of women destroy shops in Richmond, Virginia, in protest at food prices inflated by the war | |
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| 1863 |
| | | The French capture Mexico City and President Juarez flees to the north | |
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| 1863 |
| | | The three-day Battle of Gettysburg, inconclusive but more damaging to the Confederates, brings casualties on both sides of more than 50,000 | |
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| 1863 |
| | | After a six-week siege the city of Vicksburg surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant, bringing the entire Mississippi under Union control | |
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| 1863 |
| | | Four days of riots in New York greet Lincoln's new conscription or draft laws, with exemptions for the rich | |
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| 1863 |
| | | After more than a century of growing citrus fruits and other plants, the Orangery is turned into a museum. | |
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