Editing 1862 (section)

=== July ===
* [[July 1]]
** The Bureau of Internal Revenue, the forerunner of the [[Internal Revenue Service]], is established in the United States.
** [[Princess Alice of the United Kingdom|Princess Alice]], the second daughter of [[Queen Victoria]], marries [[Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse|Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine]].
** U.S. President [[Abraham Lincoln]] signs into law the [[Pacific Railroad Acts]], authorizing construction of the [[First Transcontinental Railroad]].<ref>[http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Pacific_Railroad_Acts.html "An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527113235/http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Pacific_Railroad_Acts.html |date=May 27, 2016 }} 12 Stat. 489, July 1, 1862</ref>
** The [[Russian State Library]] is founded, as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
* [[July 2]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Abraham Lincoln]] signs the [[Morrill Land-Grant Act]] into law, creating a system of [[land-grant college]]s, to teach agricultural and mechanical sciences across the United States.
* [[July 4]] &ndash; Charles Dodgson (better known as [[Lewis Carroll]]) extemporises the story that becomes ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', for ten-year-old [[Alice Liddell]] and her sisters, on a rowboat trip on [[The Isis]] from [[Oxford]] to [[Godstow]].
[[File:Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union edit.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Diagram of US Federal Government and American Union. Published: 1862, July 15.]]
*[[American Civil War]]: 
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[David Farragut]] becomes the first [[rear admiral]] in the [[U.S. Navy]].
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Dent Blanche]], one of the highest summits in the Alps, is first ascended.
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Henry Halleck]] takes command of the [[Union Army]].