WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1865
Find out what all happened June to December 1865

The Ku Klux Klan is formed. (24. December 1865)

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

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

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

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

Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press. (18. November 1865)

First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert. (17. December 1865)

The Army of the Potomac is disbanded. (28. June 1865)

American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. (6. November 1865)

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

Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth. (19. June 1865)

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

American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army. (23. June 1865)

The Naval Battle of Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War. (11. June 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)

Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile. (26. November 1865)

Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain. (5. December 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)

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