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 8, 1865 – In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
- March 3, 1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
- April 10, 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
- April 12, 1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
- April 14, 1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
- 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 12, 1865 – American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
- 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.
- June 23, 1865 – American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
- June 28, 1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
- 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.
- October 11, 1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
- November 10, 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- November 26, 1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy Schooner is defeated by a Chilean Corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile.
- December 1, 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- December 5, 1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
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