1865 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1865?
- 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.)
- February 17, 1865 – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
- March 19, 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
- 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 1, 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks – In Siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
- 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.
- April 15, 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
- April 26, 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for most states.
- 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 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.
- May 25, 1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
- July 4, 1865 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published.
- 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.
- 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.
- October 11, 1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
- November 10, 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- December 5, 1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
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