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1865 (MDCCCLXV ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar , the 1865th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini 2nd millennium , the 65th year of the 19th century , and the 6th year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1865, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January 15 : Union captures Fort Fisher . January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street , in New York City.January 13 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Fort Fisher – Union forces launch a major amphibious assault against the last seaport held by the Confederates , Fort Fisher , North Carolina .January 15 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Fort Fisher.January 31
February – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns, as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.February 3 – American Civil War: Hampton Roads Conference : Union and Confederate leaders discuss peace terms.February 6 – The municipal administration of Finland is established.[ 1] February 8 & March 8 – Gregor Mendel reads his paper on Experiments on Plant Hybridization Moravia , subsequently taken to be the origin of the theory of Mendelian inheritance .[ 2] February 21 – John Deere receives a patent for ploughs .February 22 – Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.March – Hamm's Brewery opens in St. Paul, Minnesota.March 3 – The U.S. Congress authorizes formation of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands .March 4 – In the United States:
March 13 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agrees to the use of African American troops.March 18 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time.March 19 –21 – American Civil War : Battle of Bentonville : Union troops compel Confederate forces to retreat from Four Oaks, North Carolina .March 25
The Claywater Meteorite explodes just before reaching ground level in Vernon County, Wisconsin ; fragments having a combined mass of 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) are recovered.
American Civil War: In Virginia , Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union. Lee's army suffers heavy casualties: about 2,900, including 1,000 captured in the Union counterattack. Confederate positions are weakened. After the battle, Lee's defeat is only a matter of time.
April 2 : Jefferson Davis .April 9 : Appomattox Court House .April 14 : Lincoln shot .April 1 – American Civil War – Battle of Five Forks : In Petersburg, Virginia , Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.April 2 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia , which is taken by Union troops the next day.April 6 – German chemicals producer Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (BASF ) is founded in Mannheim .April 9 – American Civil War: Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Army General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House , effectively ending the war.April 14
April 15 – President Lincoln dies early this morning from his gunshot wound, aged 56. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States upon Lincoln's death and is sworn in later that morning.April 18 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his entire cabinet arrive in Charlotte, North Carolina , with a contingent of 1,000 soldiers.April 21 – German chemicals producer BASF Mannheim , to the Hemshof District of Ludwigshafen .April 26
April 27
May 1 – The Treaty of the Triple Alliance of Argentina , Brazil , and Uruguay against Paraguay is formally signed, following the outbreak of the Paraguayan War .May 4 – American Civil War: Lieutenant General Richard Taylor , commanding all Confederate forces in Alabama , Mississippi , and eastern Louisiana , surrenders his forces to Union General Edward Canby at Citronelle, Alabama , effectively ending all Confederate resistance east of the Mississippi River.May 5 – In the United States:
May 10 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by the Union Army near Irwinville, Georgia .May 12 – Electric equipment and mobile brand Nokia founded in Tampere , Finland .May 12 –13 – American Civil War – Battle of Palmito Ranch : In far south Texas , more than a month after Confederate General Lee 's surrender, the last land battle of the civil war with casualties, ends with a Confederate victory.May 17
May 23 – Grand Review of the Armies : Union Army troops parade down Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.) to celebrate the end of the American Civil War.May 25 – Mobile magazine explosion : 300 are killed in Mobile, Alabama , when an ordnance depot explodes.May 28 – The Mimosa Wales for Patagonia .[ 5] May 29 – American Civil War: President of the United States Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation of general amnesty for most citizens of the former Confederacy.June –August – English polymath Francis Galton formulates eugenics .[ 6] June 2 – American Civil War: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River under General Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at Galveston, Texas , under terms negotiated on May 26 , becoming the last to do so.June 10 – Richard Wagner 's opera Tristan und Isolde Munich Court Theatre .June 11 – Battle of the Riachuelo : The Brazilian Navy squadron defeats the Paraguayan Navy.July 2 : Salvation Army
July – The Christian Mission, later renamed The Salvation Army , is founded in Whitechapel , London, by William and Catherine Booth .July 4 – Lewis Carroll publishes his children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [ 7] [ 8] July 5
July 7 – Following Abraham Lincoln 's assassination on April 14 , the four conspirators condemned to death during the trial are hanged , including David Herold , George Atzerodt , Lewis Powell and Mary Surratt . Her son, John Surratt , escapes execution by fleeing to Canada, and ultimately to Egypt .July 14 – First ascent of the Matterhorn : The summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps is reached for the first time, by a party of 7 led by the Englishman Edward Whymper ; 4 die in a fall during the descent. July 14 : Matterhorn climbed. July 30 : Steamer Brother Jonathan July 21 – Wild Bill Hickok – Davis Tutt shootout : In the market square of Springfield, Missouri , Wild Bill Hickok shoots "Little Dave" Davis Tutt dead over a poker debt, in what is regarded as the first true western fast draw July 23 – The SS Great Eastern departs on a voyage to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable .[ 7] July 26 – The New Zealand Parliament first meets in Wellington on a permanent basis, making it de facto the national capital.[ 9] July 27
July 30 – The steamer Brother Jonathan July 31 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester , Australia.August 16 – The Dominican Republic regains independence from Spain.August 25 – The Shergotty meteorite Mars meteorite falls in Sherghati , Gaya, Bihar, India.September 19 – Union Business College (now Peirce College ) is founded in Philadelphia.September 26 – Champ Ferguson becomes the first person (and one of only two) to be convicted of war crimes for actions taken during the American Civil War , found guilty by a U.S. Army tribunal on 23 charges, arising from the murder of 53 people. He is hanged on October 20 , two days after the conviction of Henry Wirz for war crimes.[ 10]
October 11 – Morant Bay rebellion : Paul Bogle leads hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica ; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the British governor Edward John Eyre with 400 executed.[ 8] October 25 – Florida drafts its constitution in Tallahassee .October 26
November 6 – American Civil War : The CSS Shenandoah , last remnant of the Confederate States of America and its military, surrenders in Liverpool after fleeing westward from the Pacific.November 10 – Captain Henry Wirz , Confederate superintendent of Andersonville Prison (Camp Sumter) is hanged , becoming the second of two combatants, and only serving regular soldier, to be executed for war crimes committed during the American Civil War .November 11 – Duar War between Britain and Bhutan ends with the Treaty of Sinchula, in which Bhutan cedes control of its southern passes to Britain in return for an annual subsidy.[ 7] November 17 – Chincha Islands War : Action of 17 November 1865 – A Spanish gunboat is captured by the Chilean tugboat Independencia off Tomé , in the Bay of Concepción , Chile.November 26 – Chincha Islands War: Battle of Papudo – The Spanish ship Covadonga is captured by the Chileans and the Peruvians , north of Valparaíso , Chile.December 11 – The United States Congress creates the United States House Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Banking and Commerce, reducing the tasks of the House Committee on Ways and Means .December 17 – Leopold II becomes King of the Belgians, following the death (on December 10) of his father, King Leopold I .December 18 – Secretary of State William H. Seward declares the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified by three-quarters of the states, including those in secession. As of December 6 , slavery is legally outlawed in the last two slave states of Kentucky and Delaware, and the remaining 45,000 slaves are freed.December 21 – The Kappa Alpha Order is founded at Washington College , Lexington, Virginia .December 24 – Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form the Ku Klux Klan in the American South , to resist Reconstruction and intimidate carpetbaggers scalawags Francis Galton .
Date unknown
Births
January 5 – Julio Garavito Armero , Colombian astronomer (d. 1920 )January 9 – Leo Ditrichstein , Austrian-born stage actor, playwright (d. 1928 )January 19 – Valentin Serov , Russian portrait painter (d. 1911 )January 20 – Yvette Guilbert , French cabaret singer, actress (d. 1944 )January 27 – Nikolai Pokrovsky , Russian politician, last foreign minister of the Russian Empire (d. 1930 )January 28
January 31 – Henri Desgrange , French cycling enthusiast, founder of the Tour de France (d. 1940 )February 4 – Ernest Hanbury Hankin , English bacteriologist, naturalist (d. 1939 )February 9 – Beatrice Stella Tanner, later Mrs. Patrick Campbell , English theatre actress, producer (d. 1940 )February 12
February 17 – Ernst Troeltsch , German theologian (d. 1923 ).February 19 – Sven Hedin , Swedish scientist, explorer (d. 1952 )February 21 – John Haden Badley , English author, educator (d. 1967 )February 28 – Wilfred Grenfell , English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (d. 1940 )
Elma Danielsson March 1 – Elma Danielsson , Swedish socialist, journalist (d. 1936 )March 10 – Tan Sitong , Chinese reformist leader (d. 1898 )March 15 – Sui Sin Far , English-born writer (d. 1914 )March 19 – William Morton Wheeler , American entomologist (d. 1937 )March 30 – Heinrich Rubens , German physicist (d. 1922 )April – Richard Rushall , British sea captain and businessman (d. 1953 )April 1 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy , Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929 )April 2 – Gyorche Petrov , Macedonian and Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1921 )April 6 – Victory Bateman , American stage and screen actress (d. 1926 )April 9
April 14 – Alfred Hoare Powell , English Arts and Crafts architect, and designer and painter of pottery (d. 1960 )April 16 – Harry Chauvel , Australian Army general (d. 1945 )[ 13] April 18 – Leónidas Plaza , 16th President of Ecuador (d. 1932 )April 26 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela , Finnish artist (d. 1931 )[ 14] April 28
Pieter Zeeman King George V of the United Kingdom May 2 – Clyde Fitch , American dramatist (d. 1909 )May 3 – Martha M. Simpson , Australian educationalist ((d. 1948 )May 23 – Epitácio Pessoa , 11th President of Brazil (d. 1942 )May 25
May 26 – Robert W. Chambers , American artist (d. 1933 )June 2 – George Lohmann , English cricketer (d. 1901 )June 3 – George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936 )June 9
June 13 – W. B. Yeats , Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939 )June 19
June 21 – Otto Frank , German physiologist (d. 1944 )June 26 – Bernard Berenson , American art historian (d. 1959 )June 29 – Shigechiyo Izumi , Japanese supercentenarian (d. 1986 )
Philipp Scheidemann Julia Marlowe July 1 – Granville Ryrie , Australian Army general, politician, and diplomat (d. 1937 )[ 15] July 13 – Gérard Encausse , French occultist (d. 1916 )July 15 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe , Irish-born British publisher; founder of the Daily Mail Daily Mirror 1922 )July 23
July 26 – Philipp Scheidemann , 11th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1939 )August 2
August 10 – Alexander Glazunov , Russian composer (d. 1936 )August 15 – Usui Mikao , Japanese founder of reiki (d. 1926 )August 17 – Julia Marlowe , English-born American stage actress (d. 1950 )August 20 – Bernard Tancred , South African cricketer (d. 1911 )August 22 – Templar Saxe , British actor and singer (d. 1935 )August 24 – King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927 )August 27 – James Henry Breasted , American Egyptologist (d. 1935 )
Charles W. Clark Hovhannes Abelian Warren G. Harding Jean Sibelius Rudyard Kipling October 1 – Paul Dukas , French composer (d. 1935 )October 9 – Arthur Hayes-Sadler , British admiral (d. 1952 )October 10 – Rafael Merry del Val , Spanish Roman Catholic Cardinal and Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office (d. 1930 )October 12 – Arthur Harden , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940 )October 15 – Charles W. Clark , American baritone (d. 1925 )October 16 – Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan , British field marshal (d. 1946 )October 17 – James Rudolph Garfield , U.S. politician (d. 1950 )October 22
October 23 – Hovhannes Abelian , Armenian actor (d. 1936 )October 26 – Benjamin Guggenheim , American businessman (d. 1912 )October 27 – Tinsley Lindley , English footballer (d. 1940 )
November 2 – Warren G. Harding , 29th President of the United States (d. 1923 )November 11 – Edwin Thanhouser , American actor, businessman, and film producer, founder of the Thanhouser Company (d. 1956 )December 8
December 12 – Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair , British admiral (d. 1945 )December 16 – Olavo Bilac , Brazilian poet (d. 1918 )December 19 – Minnie Maddern Fiske , American stage actress (d. 1932 )December 20 – Elsie de Wolfe , American socialite, interior decorator (d. 1950 )December 23
December 25
December 28 – Félix Vallotton , Swiss painter, printmaker (d. 1925 )December 30 – Rudyard Kipling , Indian-born English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936 )
Date unknown
Deaths
Abraham Lincoln John Wilkes Booth January 14 – Marie-Anne Libert , Belgian botanist (b. 1782 )January 19 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , French philosopher, anarchist (b. 1809 )January 28 – Felice Romani , Italian poet, librettist (b. 1788 )February 6 – Isabella Beeton , British cook, household management expert (b. 1836 )[ 18] March 1 – Anna Pavlovna of Russia , queen consort of the Netherlands (b. 1795 )March 20 – Yamanami Keisuke , Japanese samurai (b. 1833 )March 30 – Alexander Dukhnovich , Russian priest, writer and social activist (b. 1803 April 1
April 2 – A. P. Hill , American Confederate general (b. 1825 )April 13 – Achille Valenciennes , French zoologist (b. 1794 )April 15 – Abraham Lincoln , 16th President of the United States (b. 1809 )April 18 – Léon Jean Marie Dufour , French medical doctor, naturalist (b. 1780 )April 24 – Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (b. 1843 )April 26 – John Wilkes Booth , American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838 )April 28 – Sir Samuel Cunard , Canadian businessman, founder of the Cunard Line (b. 1787 )May 5 – Ben Hall , Australian bushranger (b. 1837 )May 10 – William Armstrong , American lawyer, civil servant, politician, and businessperson (b. 1782 )[ 19]
Paul Bogle Henry John Temple Leopold I of Belgium July – Dimitris Plapoutas , Greek military leader (b. 1786 )July 6 – Princess Sophie of Sweden , Grand Duchess of Baden (b. 1801 )July 7 – The Lincoln assassination conspirators (executed)
July 25 – James Barry , British military surgeon (b. 1795 )August 4 – Percival Drayton , United States Navy officer (b. 1812 )August 12 – William Jackson Hooker , English botanist (b. 1785 )August 13 – Ignaz Semmelweis , Hungarian physician (b. 1818 )August 16 – Sir Frederick Stovin , British army general (b. 1783 )August 27 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton , Canadian author (b. 1796 )August 29 – Robert Remak , German embryologist, physiologist and neurologist (b. 1815 )September 2 – William Rowan Hamilton , Irish mathematician (b. 1805 )September 10 – Maria Silfvan , Finnish actor (b. 1802 )September 25 – Andrés de Santa Cruz , Peruvian military officer, seventh President of Peru and President of Bolivia (b. 1792 )October 16 – Andrés Bello , Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher and sociologist (b. 1781 )October 18 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784 )October 24 – Paul Bogle , Jamaican activist, Baptist deacon and leader of the Morant Bay rebellion . (executed) (b. 1820 )November 10 – Henry Wirz , Swiss-born American Confederate military officer, prisoner-of-war camp commander (executed) (b. 1823 )November 12 – Elizabeth Gaskell , British novelist, biographer (b. 1810 )November 28
November 29 – Isaac A. Van Amburgh , American animal trainer (b. 1811 )December 6 – Sebastián Iradier , Spanish composer (b. 1809 )December 10 – King Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790 )December 14 – Johan Georg Forchhammer , Danish geologist (b. 1794 )December 17 – Luigi Ciacchi , Italian cardinal (b. 1788 )
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