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1865 Calendar

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•  February 18, 1865 – Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
•  March 3, 1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
•  April 2, 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
•  April 4, 1865 – American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
•  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 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 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.
•  June 28, 1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
•  July 30, 1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
•  November 11, 1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

•  February 19, 1865 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (d. 1952)
•  April 1, 1865 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
•  April 16, 1865 – Henry George Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945)
•  May 2, 1865 – Clyde Fitch, American playwright (d. 1909)
•  June 27, 1865 – Sir John Monash, Australian military commander (d. 1931)
•  July 14, 1865 – Arthur Capper, American newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1951)
•  August 10, 1865 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
•  August 14, 1865 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952)
•  August 15, 1865 – Usui Mikao, Japanese spiritual figure (d. 1926)
•  August 26, 1865 – Arthur James Arnot, Scottish inventor (d. 1946)