Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861 – 1865.

* Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861 – 1865.

The American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), in the United States often referred to as simply the Civil War and sometimes called the " War Between the States ", was a civil war fought over the secession of the Confederate States.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )

* 1865 – John Radecki, Australian artist ( d. 1955 )

* 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks –

* 1865 – Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano ( b. 1797 )

* 1803 – Joseph Paxton, English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace ( d. 1865 )

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

* 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.

* 1865 – Henry George Chauvel, Australian general ( d. 1945 )

This became poignantly true during the most serious test of American cohesion in the U. S. Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).

* 1865 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician ( d. 1952 )

* 1865 – Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader ( d. 1926 )

* Grimsley, Mark, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861 – 1865, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-59941-5.

The writer Mark Twain spent many of his writing years in the county, and heard the story that became The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in the Angel Hotel in 1865.

* Mark Pattison, essay in the North British Review of June 1865, reproduced in his Essays ( 1889 )

* Wilson, Mark R. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861 – 1865 ( 2006 ) excerpt and text search

* Fortitude Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 78 ( 18 May 1865 )

* Mark Morton ( politician ) ( 1865 – 1938 ), New South Wales politician

" The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain, his first great success as a writer, bringing him national attention.

In 1865 Robert Towns built a boiling down works-at the time, there was no facilities for shipping cattle or sheep, so in 1865 Andrew Ball and Mark Reid left Woodstock Station to find a harbour around the Cleveland Bay shores and the Town and port of Townsville was established at the mouth of Ross Creek.

* Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865 – 1878 ( 1994 )

* Short radio episode of Twain's " Earthquake Almanac " published in the Golden Era magazine in 1865 from California Legacy Project.

Gold discoveries in Otago ( 1861 ) and Westland ( 1865 ), caused a worldwide gold rush that more doubled the population in a short period, from 71, 000 in 1859 to 164, 000 in 1863.

The hymn was set to music in 1865 by the Corfiot operatic composer Nikolaos Mantzaros, who composed two choral versions, a long one for the whole poem and a short one for the first two stanzas ; the latter is the one adopted as the National Anthem of Greece.

When Albert Victor was just short of seventeen months old, his brother, Prince George of Wales, was born on 3 June 1865.

A railway station opened in 1865 and trains operated to Aberdeen via Maud and Dyce, as well as a short branch line to St. Combs.

The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen ( 1805 – 1875 ), the philosophical essays of Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ), the short stories of Karen Blixen ( penname Isak Dinesen, ( 1885 – 1962 ), the plays of Ludvig Holberg ( 1684 – 1754 ), the modern authors such as Herman Bang and Nobel laureate Henrik Pontoppidan and the dense, aphoristic poetry of Piet Hein ( 1905 – 1996 ), have earned international recognition, as have the symphonies of Carl Nielsen ( 1865 – 1931 ).

Until recently flour was still milled at a more modern mill a short way upriver on the site of the town quay ; parts of the mill dated to 1865 when it was built for Healings and it was once thought to be the largest and most modern flour mill in the world.

Emma Eckstein ( 1865 – 1924 ) was ' one of Sigmund Freud's most important patients and, for a short period of time around 1897, became a psychoanalyst herself ': she has indeed been described as ' the first woman analyst .... Emma Eckstein became both colleague and patient ' for Freud.

Napier was a military member of the Governor-General of India's council until 1865, acting for a short while as Governor-General after the sudden death of Lord Elgin.

The poet and playwright W. B. Yeats ( 1865 – 1939 ) lived in the town for a short period at Cuttle Brook House, 42 Lower High Street.

He was mayor of several towns: from 1845 he was mayor of Weyerbusch / Westerwald ; from 1848 he was mayor of Flammersfeld / Westerwald ; and finally he was mayor of Heddesdorf from 1852 until late 1865, when, at the age of 47, his worsening health cut his career short ; he had caught typhus in 1863 during an epidemic during which his wife had died.

Yamanami's seppuku ( with Okita as his second ) in 1865 was an extremely painful incident in Okita's short life.

A History of the Civil War, 1861 – 1865 ( 1918 ), Pulitzer Prize ; a short version of his 5-volume history online free

He began to specialise in canal construction and in 1865 produced plans for enlarging the Weston Canal, a short stretch of canal linking the river near Frodsham to docks at Weston Point, Runcorn.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen PC ( 18 October 1865 – 1 June 1946 ) was a British Conservative Party politician whose career was cut short by losing a string of Parliamentary elections.

Hans Ernst Kinck () ( 11 October 1865 – 13 October 1926 ) was a Norwegian author and philologist who wrote novels, short stories, dramas, and essays.

Breton was essentially a painter of rustic life, especially in the province of Artois, which he quit only three times for short excursions: in 1864 to Provence, and in 1865 and 1873 to Brittany, whence he derived some of his happiest studies of religious scenes.

After a further year as an apothecary at Mörs near Krefeld in the Ruhr area ( 1865 – 1866 ), he spent a short time at the high school in Karlsruhe and became a student of zoology at the universities of Heidelberg, Jena and Berlin, finishing in 1868.

He wrote many short stories in verse and diverse novels including Un suicidio a fior d ' acqua ( 1864 ), Angioli nelle tenebre ( 1865 ), La contessa di Karolystria ( 1883 ), Abracadabra and Storia dell ' avvenire ( 1884 ).

The first Creamery was built in 1865, and dairy short courses were first offered in 1892.

Crumpler practiced medicine in Boston for a short while before moving to Richmond, Virginia, after the American Civil War ended in 1865.

Ships and sailors were of economic import in the Islands, and on July 29, 1865, the Pacific Commercial Advertiser ran a short piece on his accident:

Rudyard Kipling ( 1865 – 1936 ) used this concept as a central metaphor in his short story " The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes " ( 1885 ).