1862

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1830s  1840s  1850s  – 1860s –  1870s  1880s  1890s
Years:	1859 1860 1861 – 1862 – 1863 1864 1865

1862 in other calendars

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	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4558 or 4498     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 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 (文久２年)
Javanese calendar	1790–1791
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4195
Minguo calendar	50 before ROC 民前50年
Nanakshahi calendar	394
Thai solar calendar	2404–2405
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1988 or 1607 or 835     — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1989 or 1608 or 836

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.

Events

• September 5: In the American Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee invades Maryland, leading 55,000 soldiers from the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. They cross the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia. This is the Confederacy's first invasion of the North.

Births

• 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)

Deaths

January 18 - John Tyler, 71, tenth President of the United States, stroke (b. 1790)

July 24 - Martin Van Buren, 79, eighth President of the United States, bronchial asthma and heart failure (b. 1782)