1865 Calendar
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1865 Historical Event(s)
February 1, 1865
– President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
March 2, 1865
– East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
March 18, 1865
– American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
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 27, 1865
– The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
May 1, 1865
– The Empire of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance
July 14, 1865
– First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
July 21, 1865
– In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
November 6, 1865
– American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels.
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.
Who Were Born On 1865?
January 5, 1865
– Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
January 13, 1865
– Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)
April 10, 1865
– Jack Miner, Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
June 13, 1865
– William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
July 23, 1865
– Max Heindel, Danish occultist and mystic (d. 1919)
August 15, 1865
– Usui Mikao, Japanese spiritual figure (d. 1926)
October 11, 1865
– Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (d. 1926)
November 27, 1865
– Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene politician (d. 1917)
December 20, 1865
– Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (d. 1950)
December 30, 1865
– Rudyard Kipling, English writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)