1862
year
1862 (MDCCCLXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1862nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 862nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1862, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
Decades: | 1830s 1840s 1850s – 1860s – 1870s 1880s 1890s |
Years: | 1859 1860 1861 – 1862 – 1863 1864 1865 |
Gregorian calendar | 1862 MDCCCLXII |
Ab urbe condita | 2615 |
Armenian calendar | 1311 ԹՎ ՌՅԺԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6612 |
Bahá'í calendar | 18–19 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1783–1784 |
Bengali calendar | 1269 |
Berber calendar | 2812 |
British Regnal year | 25 Vict. 1 – 26 Vict. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2406 |
Burmese calendar | 1224 |
Byzantine calendar | 7370–7371 |
Chinese calendar | 4558 or 4498 — to — 4559 or 4499 |
Coptic calendar | 1578–1579 |
Discordian calendar | 3028 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1854–1855 |
Hebrew calendar | 5622–5623 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1918–1919 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1783–1784 |
- Kali Yuga | 4962–4963 |
Holocene calendar | 11862 |
Igbo calendar | 862–863 |
Iranian calendar | 1240–1241 |
Islamic calendar | 1278–1279 |
Japanese calendar | Bunkyū 2 ( |
Javanese calendar | 1790–1791 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4195 |
Minguo calendar | 50 before ROC |
Nanakshahi calendar | 394 |
Thai solar calendar | 2404–2405 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1988 or 1607 or 835 — to — 阳水 (male Water-Dog) 1989 or 1608 or 836 |
Events
change- September 5-American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia into Maryland.
Births
change- August 29 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
- September 25 – Billy Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
- December 23 - Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (d. 1935)