WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1865
Find out what all happened January to December 1865

Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. (10. November 1865)

U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell. (14. April 1865)

American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. (3. April 1865)

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

American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourned for the last time. (18. March 1865)

American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia. (10. May 1865)

American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces. (17. February 1865)

The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris. (17. May 1865)

American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army. (12. April 1865)

Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company. (11. November 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)

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

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

In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.) (8. February 1865)

Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group. (3. March 1865)

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

Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. (1. December 1865)

American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union. (25. March 1865)

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (died April 15th). (14. April 1865)

American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification. (31. January 1865)