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Born :02/19/1865Adrian van Oordt, writer (neo-romantic)
Born :05/15/1865Albert Verwey, poet/literature historian (Motion)
Born :08/10/1865Alexander Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)
Born :07/15/1865Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe
Born :07/14/1865Annie Jones, Virginia, bearded lady
Born :02/23/1865Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pitts Pirates)
Born :06/26/1865Bernard Berenson, art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance)
Born :05/21/1865C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
Born :06/09/1865Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige)
Born :06/26/1865Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China)
Born :08/27/1865Charles Gates Dawes, (R) 30th VP (1925-29, Nobel 1925)
Born :07/19/1865Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)
Born :04/09/1865Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Germany, experiment with AC electricity
Born :12/04/1865Edith Louisa Cavell, England, nurse (WW I)
Born :04/27/1865Emile Erens, Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)
Born :08/27/1865Emmuska Orczy, British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
Born :04/09/1865Erich Ludendorff, general (Germany)
Born :02/09/1865Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl
Born :12/25/1865Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army General
Born :08/24/1865Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania
Born :06/10/1865Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole)
Born :05/25/1865Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18)
Born :03/08/1865Frederick William Goudy, US, printer/type designer
Born :01/20/1865Friedrich A H von Waldeck, nephew of queen Emma
Born :01/22/1865Friedrich Paschen, German physcist
Born :12/28/1865F‚lix E Vallotton, Switz/French painter/writer (Chaste Suzanna)
Born :07/16/1865George A Birmingham, [Rev James Owen Hannay], novelist
Born :06/03/1865George V, Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain (1910-36)
Born :05/28/1865Gerrit Gr˜ns, physiologist (Vitamin E)
Born :03/30/1865Heinrich Rubens, German physicist
Born :07/25/1865Jac[obus] P Th˜sse, biologist (Contact with Plants
Born :12/08/1865Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
Born :06/11/1865John H Leopold, poet (translated Omar Khayyam)
Born :05/25/1865John Raleigh Mott, organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946)
Born :11/17/1865John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins)
Born :11/27/1865Jos‚ Asunci¢n Silva, Columbia, poet (Nocturno III)
Born :01/28/1865Kaarlo Juho St†hlberg, 1st president of Finland (1919-25)
Born :02/12/1865Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland)
Born :06/15/1865L H Perquin, religious radio speaker
Born :07/18/1865Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright (Victoria Regina)
Born :07/02/1865Lili Braun, Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen)
Born :09/20/1865Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist
Born :06/19/1865May Whitty, Liverpool England, actress (Mrs Minerva, Suspicion)
Born :12/19/1865Minnie Maddern Fiske, US, stage actress (Hedy Gabler)
Born :02/09/1865Mrs Patrick Campbell, England, actress (Sean O'Casey's mistress)
Born :06/28/1865Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Sonderbare Geschicten)
Born :10/01/1865Paul Dukas, Paris France, composer (Vell‚da)
Born :07/26/1865Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament (SPD)/mayor of Kassel
Born :08/22/1865Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Eucharistische Crusade)
Born :05/25/1865Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902)
Born :03/10/1865Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, journalist/writer/sport-organizer
Born :10/10/1865Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish cardinal
Born :04/01/1865Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925)
Born :06/25/1865Robert Henri, US painter, leader of Ashcan school
Born :12/30/1865Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907)
Born :01/30/1865Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian
Born :06/29/1865Shigechiyo Izumi, achieved oldest authenticated age (120 y 237 d)
Born :02/19/1865Sven Hedin, Sweden, scientist/explorer (Tibet)
Born :12/16/1865Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor
Born :11/02/1865Warren Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, (R) 29th pres (1921-23)
Born :02/28/1865Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary
Born :09/03/1865Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian
Born :06/13/1865William Butler Yeats, Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923)
Born :06/29/1865William E Borah, lawyer/(Sen-R-Id)
Born :05/18/1865William Heinemann, England, publisher (Chemical Instrumental)




Died :04/15/1865Abraham Lincoln, at 7:22 am, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Died :04/02/1865Ambrose P Hill, confederate general, dies at 39
Died :10/15/1865Andr‚s Bello, Venezulan leader/poet, dies at 83
Died :08/23/1865Ferdinand G Waldmller, Austria painter (biedermeier), dies
Died :11/25/1865Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies
Died :11/10/1865Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt executed for excessive cruelty
Died :04/26/1865John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead at 27 near Bowling Green VA
Died :07/07/1865Mary Surratt, & 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged
Died :02/25/1865Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
Died :04/02/1865Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60
Died :12/06/1865Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies
Died :08/12/1865William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies
Died :10/31/1865William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes, dies
Interest:05/25/1865[RC] Commemoration of St Madeleine Sophie Barat, virgin




Special :11/26/1865"Alice in Wonderland" published
Special :01/01/1865-Apr 26th) Carolinas' campaign
Special :02/17/1865-Feb 18th) Battle of Charleston SC
Special :01/13/1865-Jan 15th) BBT & CPT Ft Fisher, NC
Special :01/23/1865-Jan 25th) Battle of City Piont, VA (James River, Trent's Reach)
Special :12/06/186513th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
Special :12/18/186513th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
Special :02/01/186513th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
Special :12/18/18651st US cattle importation law passed
Special :11/13/18651st US gold certificates issued
Special :05/05/18651st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
Special :07/14/18651st ascent of Matterhorn
Special :02/08/18651st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
Special :07/04/18651st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
Special :06/30/18658 alleged conspirators in assasination of Lincoln are found guilty
Special :04/26/1865A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #83 Beatrix
Special :04/21/1865Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
Special :03/12/1865Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
Special :01/16/1865Aftermath of Ft Fisher, Ft Caswell is abandoned & blown up
Special :06/19/1865All slaves in Texas freed
Special :03/29/1865Appomattox campaign, VA
Special :09/03/1865Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
Special :04/10/1865At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last
Special :06/23/1865At Ft Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confed army
Special :06/02/1865At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept
Special :03/02/1865At Waynesborough, Gen Early's army is defeated
Special :09/19/1865Atlanta University forms
Special :04/01/1865Battle of 5 Forks, signalling end of Lee's army
Special :03/16/1865Battle of Averasboro, NC
Special :03/20/1865Battle of Bentonville NC
Special :03/21/1865Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
Special :03/19/1865Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC
Special :01/11/1865Battle of Beverly, WV
Special :03/25/1865Battle of Bluff Spring, FL
Special :03/31/1865Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
Special :05/04/1865Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
Special :04/16/1865Battle of Columbus & West Point, GA (Ft Tyler)
Special :04/26/1865Battle of Durham Station, NC (Greensboro)
Special :04/07/1865Battle of Farmville VA
Special :03/25/1865Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg
Special :01/18/1865Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC
Special :02/18/1865Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
Special :04/26/1865Battle of Ft Tobacco, VA
Special :05/26/1865Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith
Special :06/09/1865Battle of Grand Gulf, MS
Special :02/05/1865Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
Special :03/08/1865Battle of Kingston, NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
Special :05/04/1865Battle of Mobile, AL
Special :03/25/1865Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
Special :04/11/1865Battle of Mobile, AL - evacuated by Confederates
Special :03/10/1865Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC
Special :03/06/1865Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
Special :04/02/1865Battle of Petersburg, VA (Ft Gregg, Sutherland's Station)
Special :03/29/1865Battle of Quaker Road, VA
Special :04/13/1865Battle of Raleigh, NC
Special :04/06/1865Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
Special :02/22/1865Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
Special :03/18/1865Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL
Special :03/03/1865Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established
Special :09/19/1865C H F Peters discovers asteroid #85 Io
Special :04/02/1865CSA Pres Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA
Special :10/14/1865Cheyennes & Arapaho's sign "peaces treaty" then chased out Colorado
Special :02/27/1865Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
Special :02/17/1865Columbia SC burns down during civil war
Special :01/03/1865Con Orem & Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
Special :11/09/1865Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
Special :03/04/1865Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
Special :01/31/1865Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
Special :10/08/1865Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
Special :02/18/1865Evacuation of Charleston, SC; Sherman's troops burn city
Special :04/09/1865Federals capture Ft Blakely, Alabama
Special :04/24/1865Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
Special :05/23/1865Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
Special :03/02/1865Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
Special :03/03/1865Freedman's Savings & Trust Company chartered by Congress
Special :01/15/1865Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
Special :04/26/1865Gen Joseph E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham, NC
Special :03/31/1865Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
Special :01/31/1865Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
Special :03/11/1865Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
Special :01/16/1865Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
Special :02/01/1865General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
Special :05/23/1865Grand Review begins in Washington DC
Special :02/03/1865Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
Special :02/04/1865Hawaiian Board of Education formed
Special :02/12/1865Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps
Special :07/13/1865Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
Special :11/20/1865Howard University forms in Washington DC
Special :02/01/1865JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar
Special :09/24/1865James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
Special :12/26/1865James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
Special :10/10/1865John Hyatts patents billard ball
Special :09/01/1865Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptc surgery
Special :05/12/1865Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
Special :04/04/1865Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
Special :04/08/1865Lee's retreat cut off near Appomattox Court House
Special :08/02/1865Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Special :04/11/1865Lincoln urges a spirt of generous conciliation during reconstruction
Special :11/07/1865London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded
Special :02/20/1865M I T establishes 1st US collegiate architectural school
Special :11/18/1865Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
Special :02/08/1865Martin R Delany becomes 1st black major in US army
Special :11/11/1865Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
Special :04/17/1865Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination
Special :03/20/1865Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
Special :04/14/1865Mobile, Alabama is captured
Special :04/28/1865Opera "L'Africaine" is produced (Paris)
Special :07/13/1865P T Barnum's museum burns down
Special :11/13/1865PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
Special :07/26/1865Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium)
Special :07/30/1865Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
Special :04/14/1865Pres Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
Special :01/28/1865Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners
Special :05/02/1865Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
Special :10/11/1865Pres Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens
Special :08/20/1865Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
Special :06/13/1865Pres Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states
Special :05/19/1865President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
Special :08/25/1865R Luther discovers asteroid #84 Klio
Special :03/22/1865Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
Special :04/09/1865Robert E Lee & 26,765 troops, surrender to US Grant at Appomattox
Special :02/06/1865Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
Special :02/04/1865Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
Special :01/16/1865SF Dramatic Chronicle started
Special :03/25/1865SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
Special :07/05/1865Secret Service begins as part of US Treasury Dept
Special :06/19/1865Seige of Richmond, VA
Special :03/27/1865Seige of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
Special :12/24/1865Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
Special :11/21/1865Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
Special :04/13/1865Sherman's march through Georgia begins
Special :04/06/1865Skirmish at High Bridge VA (Appomattox); 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
Special :05/11/1865Surrender of Jeff Thompson
Special :05/10/1865Surrender of Sam Jones
Special :02/22/1865Tennesee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
Special :01/25/1865The CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
Special :08/02/1865Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost
Special :11/13/1865US issues 1st gold certificates
Special :05/10/1865Union captures Jefferson Davis in Irwinville Ga
Special :04/03/1865Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va & Petersberg
Special :02/18/1865Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC
Special :06/10/1865Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Mnchen Germany
Special :07/05/1865William Booth founded Salvation Army in London

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