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1865 Calendar

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•  January 31, 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
•  February 17, 1865 – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
•  April 27, 1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.
•  May 1, 1865 – The Empire of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance
•  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.
•  June 28, 1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
•  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.
•  July 27, 1865 – Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
•  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.

•  January 28, 1865 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
•  February 9, 1865 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (d. 1949)
•  February 12, 1865 – Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer (d. 1940)
•  March 15, 1865 – Manuk Abeghian, scholar of Armenian literature and folklore (d. 1944)
•  June 3, 1865 – George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
•  June 27, 1865 – Sir John Monash, Australian military commander (d. 1931)
•  July 2, 1865 – Lily Braun, German writer (d. 1916)
•  October 12, 1865 – Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
•  October 15, 1865 – Albert Heijn, Dutch businessman (d. 1945)
•  October 17, 1865 – James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)