1865 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1865?
- January 4, 1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York, New York.
- February 1, 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- March 19, 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
- April 1, 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks – In Siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
- April 2, 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.
- April 4, 1865 – American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
- April 9, 1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
- April 12, 1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
- April 14, 1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
- May 5, 1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
- May 10, 1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
- May 17, 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
- May 26, 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
- June 19, 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
- July 4, 1865 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published.
- July 5, 1865 – The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.
- July 7, 1865 – American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
- July 14, 1865 – First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
- December 1, 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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