1865 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1865?
- February 1, 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 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 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 6, 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler’s Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
- 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 20, 1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX’s yacht, the L’Immaculata Concezion.
- April 26, 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
- April 27, 1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grant institution.
- May 5, 1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
- May 10, 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
- May 12, 1865 – American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
- 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 19, 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
- July 4, 1865 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published.
- July 7, 1865 – American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
- July 31, 1865 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.
- October 11, 1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
- November 18, 1865 – Mark Twain’s short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
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