Apr 14 John Wiles Booth murders president Lincoln "But apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

Apr 03 Battle at Namozine Church VA (Appomattox Campaign)

Apr 27 Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.

Apr 26 Gen Joseph E Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee, at Durham, NC

Apr 09 Federals capture Ft Blakely, Alabama

Apr 14 Mobile, Alabama is captured

Apr 14 John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln

Apr 21 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington

Apr 27 Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000

Apr 10 At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last

Apr 26 John Wilkes Booth assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green, VA

Apr 20 Safety matches were first advertised this day.

Apr 03 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond VA & Petersburg VA

Apr 08 Battle of 5 Forks, signalling end of Lee's army

Apr 15 The American president Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while watching a play

Apr 02 CSA Pres Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA

Apr 02 Gen A.P. Hill is killed by a Federal Picket

Apr 09 Lee's retreat cut off near Appomattox Court House

Apr 01 Baie du Ha! Ha! Quebec, the first Canadian April Fools' Day on record celebrated by British troops and Canadian militia at Fort Poisson d'Avril.

Apr 05 Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville VA (Appomattox Campaign)

Nov 07 London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded

Nov 11 Mary Edward Walker, the first female Army surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor

Nov 09 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox

Nov 26 Alice in Wonderland published

Nov 13 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport

Nov 13 US issues 1st gold certificates

Sep 01 Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery

Sep 03 Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land

Sep 24 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF

Jun 02 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Dept

Jun 02 The last members of the American conferedate forces surrender, ending the American civil war.

Jun 03 The birth of King George V

Jun 23 At Fort Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable army

Jun 19 All slaves in Texas freed

Jun 28 CSS Shenandoah captures 11 American whalers in one day

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