WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1865
Find out what all happened July to October 1865

First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent. (14. July 1865)

American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged. (7. July 1865)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published. (4. July 1865)

Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina. (27. July 1865)

The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time. (30. July 1865)

In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown. (21. July 1865)

The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia. (31. July 1865)

Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion. (11. October 1865)