1865 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1865?
- January 4, 1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York, New York.
- January 15, 1865 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
- February 1, 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 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 18, 1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
- 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 4, 1865 – American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
- 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 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 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 17, 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
- 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 18, 1865 – Mark Twain’s short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
- December 6, 1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
- December 17, 1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
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