1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday.
Events
January
February
The only month in any year that might not have had a Full moon.
March
April
May
- May 1 - Triple Alliance of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay against Paraguay is formally signed - War of the Triple Alliance has already begun.
- May 4 - American Civil War: Confederate General Richard Taylor, commanding all Confederate forces in Alabama, Mississippi, and eastern Louisiana, surrenders his forces to Union General E.R.S. Canby at Citronelle, Alabama.
- May 5 - In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
- 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 Confederate 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.
June
July
October
November
December
Undated
Births
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
- April 2 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
- April 13 - Achille Valenciennes, French zoologist (b. 1794)
- April 15 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
- April 18 - Léon Jean Marie Dufour, French medical doctor and naturalist (b. 1780)
- April 26 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
- July 25 - James Barry, British military surgeon (b. 1795)
- August 12 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (b. 1785)
- September 2 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
- October 16 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher and sociologist (b. 1781)
- October 18 - Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
- November 12 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist and biographer (b. 1810)
- November 28 - William Machin Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1789)
- December 6 - Sebastián Iradier, Spanish composer (b. 1809)
- December 10 - Léopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
- December 17 - Luigi Ciacchi, Italian cardinal (b. 1788)
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