2nd » Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia, and demand that the Confederate States of America named Confederate government release emergency supplies.
16th » American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg ships led by Union (American Civil War) Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate States of America Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi Vicksburg, Mississippi.
30th » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Battle of Camarón known as Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1863
5th » Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)
17th » Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician (d. 1940)
18th » Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat (d. 1942)
18th » Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (d. 1920)
28th » Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician (d. 1933)
29th » Constantine P. Cavafy, Egyptian-Greek poet (d. 1933)
29th » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (d. 1951)
29th » Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Austrian nun and missionary (d. 1922)
Famous Deaths for April 1863
4th » Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
21st » Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1782)