1865 Calendar
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1865 Historical Event(s)
January 31, 1865
– American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
February 1, 1865
– President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
February 17, 1865
– American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
March 18, 1865
– American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
April 20, 1865
– Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX’s yacht, the L’Immaculata Concezion.
May 1, 1865
– The Empire of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance
June 23, 1865
– American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
June 28, 1865
– The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
July 27, 1865
– Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
December 24, 1865
– The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
Who Were Born On 1865?
February 9, 1865
– Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (d. 1949)
March 15, 1865
– Manuk Abeghian, scholar of Armenian literature and folklore (d. 1944)
June 10, 1865
– Frederick Albert Cook, American explorer and physician, claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1908 (d. 1940)
June 19, 1865
– Dame May Whitty, English entertainer (d. 1948)
June 29, 1865
– Shigechiyo Izumi, oldest man ever, who lived to be 120 years 237 days old (d. 1986)
August 2, 1865
– Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
August 10, 1865
– Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
August 15, 1865
– Usui Mikao, Japanese spiritual figure (d. 1926)
August 20, 1865
– Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1911)
October 23, 1865
– Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918)