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•  February 1, 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
•  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 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. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
•  April 15, 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
•  May 13, 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
•  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 26, 1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy Schooner is defeated by a Chilean Corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile.

•  January 3, 1865 – Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)
•  January 31, 1865 – Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951)
•  March 19, 1865 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and myrmecologist (d. 1937)
•  April 23, 1865 – Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
•  June 3, 1865 – George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
•  June 9, 1865 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
•  July 14, 1865 – Arthur Capper, American newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1951)
•  August 4, 1865 – Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890)
•  October 1, 1865 – Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
•  December 30, 1865 – Rudyard Kipling, English writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)