Page 8: Historical Events In 1865

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   

Jun 22   1st class cricket debut of Dr W G Grace.   

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

Jun 23   At Ft Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confed army.   

Jun 25   Robert Henri, US painter, leader of Ashcan school   

Jun 26   Bernard Berenson, art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance)   

Jun 28   CSS Shenandoah captures 11 American whalers in one day.   

Jun 28   Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Remarkable Stories)   

Jun 28   The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.   

Jun 29   Shigechiyo Izumi, achieved oldest authenticated age (120 y 237 d)   

Jun 30   8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are are discovered guilty.   

Jul 02   Lili Braun, Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen)   

Jul 02   William Booth forms the Salvation Army   

Jul 02   William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)   

Jul 04   1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published   

Jul 04   The inaugural edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published.   

Jul 05   Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws   

Jul 05   William Booth founded Salvation Army in London.   

Jul 07   4 Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, hanged   

Jul 07   Lewis Paine, David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt were executed for their role in a conspiracy to throw the Union government into turmoil.   

Jul 07   Mary Surratt, and 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of giuseppe Ferrata, composer   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928) was born in the year 1865.   

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

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of gen Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)   

Jan 20   In the year 1865 birth of friedrich A H von Waldeck, brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck   

Jan 22   In the year 1865 birth of friedrich Paschen, German physicist   

Jan 03   On this day in history jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43   

Jan 08   On this day in history death of aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)   

Jan 16   On this day in history 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   In the year 1865 john Pegram, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 15   On this day in history nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies