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

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

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

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

* 1800 – John Appold, British fur dyer and engineer ( d. 1865 )

* John Chapman ( 1865 – 1933 )

* John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1865 – 1868

* Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1859 – 1865

Wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold ( 1865 )

Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.

Groups associated with John Thomas met under various names, including Believers, Baptised Believers, the Royal Association of Believers, Baptised Believers in the Kingdom of God, Nazarines ( or Nazarenes ) and The Antipas until the time of the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).

* 1787 – John Dobson, English architect ( d. 1865 )

* 1865 – John Haden Badley, English school founder ( d. 1967 )

John Edward Gray placed it in its own genus in 1865, naming it in honour of zoologist Daniel Eschricht.

* John T. Ford ( 1829 – 1894 ), American theatre owner and manager ; 1865 assassination of President Lincoln occurred in one of his venues, Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C.

* 1955 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1865 )

Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( London: John Murray, 1865, 2 volumes ).

John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.

In February 1865, Booth became infatuated with Lucy Lambert Hale, the daughter of U. S. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire, and they became secretly engaged when Booth received his mother's blessing for their marriage plans.

* 1786 – John Catron, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1865 )

In 1865, congressional opposition likewise caused Seddon to withdraw, and he was replaced by John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky.

* 1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L ’ Immaculata Concezion.

Guldberg and Waage ( 1865 ), building on Berthollet ’ s ideas, proposed the law of mass action:

Image: Claude Monet-Le dejeuner sur l ’ herbe. JPG | Le déjeuner sur l ' herbe, 1865 – 1866, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.

To establish his place within the Alice canon, Tenniel drew ninety-two drawings for Lewis Carroll ’ s Alice ’ s Adventures in Wonderland ( London: Macmillan, 1865 ) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There ( London: Macmillan, 1871 ).

The schools with the most-lasting effect in founding the modern versions of thermodynamics are the Berlin school, particularly as established in Rudolf Clausius ’ s 1865 textbook The Mechanical Theory of Heat, the Vienna school, with the statistical mechanics of Ludwig Boltzmann, and the Gibbsian school at Yale University, American engineer Willard Gibbs ' 1876 On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances launching chemical thermodynamics.

Famous illustrators for British editions include: Arthur Boyd Houghton, John Tenniel, John Everett Millais and George John Pinwell for Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865 ; Walter Crane for Aladdin's Picture Book ( 1876 ); Albert Letchford for the 1897 edition of Burton ’ s translation ; Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights ( 1907 ), Princess Badoura ( 1913 ) and Sindbad the Sailor & Other Tales from the Arabian Nights ( 1914 ).

In June 1865, three months after Robert E. Lee ’ s surrender at Appomattox, General W. T. Sherman was given his first postwar command, originally called the Military Division of the Mississippi and later the Military Division of the Missouri.

She argues that their intellectual debts to Locke are most evident when one looks at the 1865 debates in the Province of Canada ’ s legislature on whether or not union with the other British North American colonies would be desirable.

Only one minor battle was fought in the York District, the battle for the Catawba Bridge at Nation ’ s Ford in 1865.

Her book is a people ’ s history of the Free State, one that emphasizes the cultural, geographic, economic, and kinship roots of the anti-Confederate outrage that plunged the county into a bloody inner civil war between 1863 and 1865.

The garden designer Joseph Paxton ( 1803 – 1865 ), creator of the Crystal Palace, started his career in the gardens at Chiswick for the Royal Horticultural Society before his talents were recognised by William Cavendish, the sixth Duke of Devonshire and he relocated as ‘ Head Gardener ’ to Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.

The last skirmish east of the Mississippi took place a few miles north of town when cadets from the Arsenal Academy at Columbia encountered Stoneman ’ s Raiders on May 1, 1865.

It was not until 1865 that Blaine ’ s first permanent resident, Green Chambers, settled on the old Townsend claim.

Richard Burrill wrote, in " Ishi Rediscovered ", that: " In 1865, near the Yahi ’ s special place, Black Rock, the waters of Mill Creek turned red at the Three Knolls Massacre.

See too Terry L. Meyers, " John Nichol ’ s Visit to Virginia, 1865: ‘ The James River .’" Victorians Institute Journal, 30 ( 2002 ), 140-153.

Si ’ ahl frequented the town named after him, and had his photograph taken by E. M. Sammis in 1865.

The province of British Kaffraria was incorporated into the colony in 1865, under the title of the Electoral Divisions of King William ’ s Town and East London.

Surveying began in 1865, and in June 1866, Parliamentary approval was given to the Midland ’ s plan.

By 1813 he had risen as a “ star ” in the constellation of Edo ’ s artistic world ( a contemporary list of the most important ukiyo-e artists places him in second place behind Toyokuni I ) and until his death in early 1865, Kunisada remained one of the “ trendsetters ” of the Japanese woodblock print.

In 1865 Hector was appointed to found the Geological Survey of New Zealand, and he moved to Wellington to supervise the construction of the Colonial Museum, which was to be the Survey ’ s headquarters.

In the years to follow both Thomson ’ s 1852 and the 1865 papers, Helmholtz and Rankine both credited Thomson with the idea, but read further into his papers by publishing views stating that Thomson argued that the universe will end in a " heat death " ( Helmholtz ) which will be the " end of all physical phenomena " ( Rankine ).

In 1865 Lydia Maria Child presented pages of Harriet Jacobs ' narrative in The Freedmen ’ s Book.