1865

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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s Years: 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 - 1865 - 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870

This is a common year starting on Sunday.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 heads of State

Events

January 31 - American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
February 17 - American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
February 22 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
March 3 - The United States Congress authorizes formation of the Freedmen's Bureau
March 13 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees to the use of African American troops.
March 18 - American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time
March 19 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle on the 21st the Confederate forces had retreated from Greenville, North Carolina.
March 25 - American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
March 29 - American Civil War: Battle of Appomattox Court House begins
April 1 - American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks - In Petersburg, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
April 2 - American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia which is taken the next day.
April 9 - American Civil War: General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.
April 14 - US President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
April 26 - Union cavalry corner John Wilkes Booth and cavalryman Boston Corbett shoots the assassin dead.
April 26 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
April 27 - The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,300 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison.
May 10 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
May 13 - American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch - In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the civil war ends with a Union victory.
May 23 - Parade down Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC to celebrate the ending of the American Civil War.
May 25 - Mobile magazine explosion: 300 are killed in Mobile, Alabama when an ordnance depot explodes.
July 5 - William Booth founds the Christian Mission (later renamed to the Salvation Army).
July 21 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
July 27 - Welsh settlers arrive in Argentina at Chubut Valley.
December 24 - Several US Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan.