April.E2.80.93June 1865

april 2: jefferson davis.



april 9: appomattox court house.



april 1 – american civil war – battle of 5 forks: in petersburg, virginia, confederate general robert e. lee begins final offensive.
april 2 – american civil war: confederate president jefferson davis , of cabinet flee confederate capital of richmond, virginia, taken union troops next day.
april 6 – german chemicals producer badische anilin- und sodafabrik (basf) founded in mannheim.
april 9 – american civil war: confederate states army general robert e. lee surrenders union army general ulysses s. grant @ appomattox court house, ending american civil war.
april 14 (good friday)

assassination of abraham lincoln: president of united states abraham lincoln shot while attending evening performance of farce our american cousin @ ford s theatre in washington, d.c., actor , confederate sympathizer john wilkes booth. doctors move unconscious president bed in house across street.
united states secretary of state william h. seward , family attacked in home, lewis powell.


april 15 – president lincoln dies morning gunshot wound. vice president andrew johnson becomes 17th president of united states, upon lincoln s death. johnson sworn in later morning.
april 18 – confederate president jefferson davis , entire cabinet arrive in charlotte, north carolina, contingent of 1,000 soldiers.
april 21 – german chemicals producer basf moves headquarters , factories mannheim, hemshof district of ludwigshafen.
april 26

american civil war: confederate states army general joseph e. johnston surrenders union army major general william tecumseh sherman, @ durham station, north carolina.
union cavalry corner john wilkes booth in virginia barn, , cavalryman boston corbett shoots assassin dead.


april 27

the steamboat sultana, carrying 2,300 passengers, explodes , sinks in mississippi river, killing 1,800, union survivors of andersonville prison.
governor of new york reuben fenton signs bill formally creating cornell university.




april 14: lincoln shot.



april 27: steamboat sultana sinks.



may 1 – triple alliance of argentina, brazil, , uruguay against paraguay formally signed; paraguayan war has begun.
may 4 – american civil war: lieutenant general richard taylor, commanding confederate forces in alabama, mississippi, , eastern louisiana, surrenders forces union general edward canby @ citronelle, alabama, ending confederate resistance east of mississippi river.
may 5

in north bend, ohio (a suburb of cincinnati), first train robbery in united states takes place.
jefferson davis meets confederate cabinet (14 officials) last time, in washington, georgia, , confederate government officially dissolved.


may 10 – american civil war: jefferson davis captured union army near irwinville, georgia.
may 12–may 13 – american civil war – battle of palmito ranch: in far south texas, more month after confederate general lee s surrender, last land battle of civil war casualties, ends confederate victory.
may 17

the international telegraph union founded.
french missionary father armand david first observes père david s deer in peking, china.


may 23 – grand review of armies: union army troops parade down pennsylvania avenue (washington, d.c.) celebrate end of american civil war.
may 25 – mobile magazine explosion: 300 killed in mobile, alabama, when ordnance depot explodes.
may 29 – american civil war: president of united states andrew johnson issues proclamation of general amnesty citizens of former confederacy.
june–august – english polymath francis galton formulates eugenics.
june 2 – american civil war: confederate forces west of mississippi river under general edmund kirby smith surrender @ galveston, texas, under terms negotiated on may 26, becoming last so.
june 10 – richard wagner s opera tristan und isolde debuts @ munich court theatre.
june 11 – battle of riachuelo: brazilian navy squadron defeats paraguayan navy.


july 2: salvation army



june 19 – american civil war: union major general gordon granger lands @ galveston, texas, , informs people of texas of emancipation proclamation (an event celebrated in modern times each year juneteenth).
june 23 – american civil war: @ fort towson in oklahoma territory, confederate general stand watie, cherokee indian, surrenders last significant rebel army.
june 25 – james hudson taylor founds china inland mission @ brighton, england.




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^ galton, francis (1865). hereditary talent , character (pdf). macmillan s magazine. 12: 157–166, 318–327. retrieved 2016-12-06.