Historical Events In 1865

Apr 14   John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln on this day in history.  

Apr 14   On this day in history mobile, Alabama is captured  

Apr 14   Pres Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth in the year 1865.  

Apr 15   Otto von Bismarck elevated to earl in the year 1865.  

Apr 15   In the year 1865 the American president Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while watching a play  

Apr 16   Battle of Columbus & West Point, GA (Ft Tyler) on this day in history.  

Apr 16   In the year 1865 robert C Tyler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle  

Apr 17   Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination on this day in history.  

Apr 18   Confederate Gen Johnson surrendered to Gen Sherman in North Carolina in the year 1865.  

Apr 20   Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens in the year 1865.  

Apr 20   Safety matches were first advertised this day in the year 1865.  

Apr 21   Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington in the year 1865.  

Apr 22   In the year 1865 francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries  

Apr 23   James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24 in the year 1865.  

Apr 24   On this day in history fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)  

Apr 26   In the year 1865 a De Gasparis discovers asteroid #83 Beatrix  

Apr 26   Battle of Durham Station, NC (Greensboro) in the year 1865.  

Apr 26   In the year 1865 charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74  

Apr 26   Gen Joseph E Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee, at Durham, NC on this day in history.  

Apr 26   John Wilkes Booth assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green, VA in the year 1865.  

Apr 27   In the year 1865 1,450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up  

Apr 27   Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard on this day in history.  

Apr 27   Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered on this day in history.  

Apr 27   Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars) in the year 1865.  

Apr 27   In the year 1865 steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000  

Apr 28   On this day in history giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine," premieres in Paris  

Apr 30   On this day in history -5/1] Gen Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia  

May 02   On this day in history pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis  

May 02   President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis in the year 1865.  

May 04   Battle of Citronville AL; Richard Taylor surrenders in the year 1865.  

May 04   On this day in history battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders  

May 04   In the year 1865 battle of Mobile AL  

May 05   1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio) in the year 1865.  

May 05   Felicjan Szopski, composer in the year 1865.  

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Jan 01   Giuseppe Ferrata, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   In the year 1865 birth of henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)  

Jan 05   Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920) was born in the year 1865.  

Jan 10   In the year 1865 birth of mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)  

Jan 13   Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908) was born in the year 1865.  

Jan 17   In the year 1865 birth of gen Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)  

Jan 20   Friedrich A H von Waldeck, brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck was born in the year 1865.  

Jan 22   Friedrich Paschen, German physicist was born in the year 1865.  

Jan 03   Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43 on this day in history.  

Jan 08   In the year 1865 death of aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)  

Jan 16   In the year 1865 death of edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)  

Jan 19   Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809) died in the year 1865.  

Feb 06   John Pegram, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33 in the year 1865.  

Feb 07   John Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64 in the year 1865.  

Feb 10   Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804) died in the year 1865.  

Feb 15   In the year 1865 nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies