the foundation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, following the lead of humanitarian businessman Henry Dunant. February 24 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory. February 26 – Abraham Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law. March 3 Idaho Territory is organized by the U.S. Congress. The U.S. National Conscription Act is signed, leading to the New York City draft riots in July. March 10 – Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) marries Princess Alexandra of Denmark (later Queen Alexandra). March 14 – Queen Victoria issues Letters Patent granting Goulburn, New South Wales, city status, making it Australia's first inland city. March 19 – The is destroyed on her maiden voyage, while attempting to run the blockade into Charleston, South Carolina. The wreck is discovered exactly 102 years later, by E. Lee Spence. March 30 – Prince Wilhelm George of Denmark, 17, is elected by the Hellenic Parliament as George, King of the Hellenes; he will reign in Greece for 50 years. He arrives in Athens on October 30 to take the throne. April–June April 14 – The Treaty of Huế is signed between Vietnam and the French Empire. April 17–May 2 – American Civil War – Grierson's Raid: Union cavalrymen are ambushed, while crossing the Tickfaw River in Mississippi. April 20 – American Civil War: The Battle of Washington ends inconclusively in Beaufort County, North Carolina. April 21 : Bahá'u'lláh begins a 12-day stay in the Najibiyyih gardens, Baghdad (now known as the Garden of Ridván) during which he declares his station as He whom God shall make manifest. This date is celebrated in the Baháʼí Faith as the festival of Ridván. January Uprising: The Polish peasant army, now led by Zygmunt Sierakowski, achieves its first victory over the Russian army, near Raguva. April 30 – Battle of Camarón in Mexico: 65 soldiers of the French Foreign Legion fight 2,000 Mexicans. May 1–4 – American Civil War – Battle of Chancellorsville: General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces with 13,000 Confederate casualties, among them Stonewall Jackson (fatally wounded by friendly fire), and 17,500 Union casualties. May 8 The Granadine Confederation becomes the United States of Colombia, under President Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera. January Uprising: The Polish insurgent army is defeated by the Russians near Gudiškis. May 14 – American Civil War – Battle of Jackson, Mississippi: Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeats