Page 7: Historical Events In 1865

May 23   Flag flown at full staff over White House, inaugural time since Lincoln shot.   

May 23   Grand Review begins in Washington DC.   

May 23   Victory parade in Washington DC.   

May 25   Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18)   

May 26   Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Fins painter/graphic artist/illustrator   

May 26   Arrangements are made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi during the U S Civil War.   

May 26   Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith.   

May 28   Gerrit Grijns, Dutch physiologist (Vitamin E).   

May 30   William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27   

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

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

Jun 02   George Lohmann, cricketer (England's great bowler late 19th cent)   

Jun 02   John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59   

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

Jun 03   George V, Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain (1910-36).   

Jun 03   King George V is born   

Jun 07   Guido Gasperini, composer   

Jun 08   Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies   

Jun 08   Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres   

Jun 09   Alberic Magnard, composer.   

Jun 09   Battle of Grand Gulf, MS   

Jun 10   Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (claimed falsely to be at North Pole)   

Jun 10   Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany.   

Jun 11   Jan H Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam)   

Jun 13   Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brig-general, dies at about 29.   

Jun 13   Pres Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states.   

Jun 13   William Butler Yeats, Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923)   

Jun 14   Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer   

Jun 15   Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide   

Jun 15   L H Perquin, Dutch religious radio speaker.   

Jun 19   Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate.   

Jun 19   All slaves in Texas freed.   

Jun 19   Siege of Richmond, VA.   

Jun 21   Albert Herbert Brewer, composer.   

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Jan 01   Giuseppe ferrata: Composer   

Jan 03   Henry lytton: British actor and opera singer    

Jan 05   Julio garavito armero: Colombian astronomer    

Jan 10   Mary ingalls: Sister of laura ingalls wilder    

Jan 13   Princess marie of orl�ans: Princess marie of orl�ans (d. 1908)   

Jan 17   Gen sir charles fergusson: Governor-general of new zealand    

Jan 20   Friedrich a h von waldeck: Brother of queen emma/last ruler of waldeck   

Jan 22   Friedrich paschen: German physicist   

Jan 03   Jozef lies: Flemish painter,    

Jan 08   Aimé: Duc de clermont-tonnerre, french general (b. 1779)   

Jan 16   Edmond françois valentin about: French writer (b. 1828)   

Jan 19   Pierre-joseph proudhon: French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)   

Feb 06   John pegram: Us confederate brig-gen,   

Feb 07   John henry winder: Us confederate brig-gen/provost marshal,   

Feb 10   Heinrich lenz: German physicist (b. 1804)   

Feb 15   Nicholas wiseman: 1st archbishop of westminster (1850-65),