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1865 Calendar

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•  January 31, 1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification.
•  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 29, 1865 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
•  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 14, 1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
•  May 5, 1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
•  July 4, 1865 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published.
•  December 5, 1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
•  December 6, 1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.

•  February 25, 1865 – Zoravar Andranik Armenian general, political and public activist and freedom fighter (d. 1927)
•  February 28, 1865 – Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary (d. 1940)
•  March 8, 1865 – Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947)
•  April 23, 1865 – Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
•  August 2, 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
•  August 15, 1865 – Usui Mikao, Japanese spiritual figure (d. 1926)
•  August 20, 1865 – Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1911)
•  August 27, 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
•  September 26, 1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937)
•  October 12, 1865 – Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)