U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the following day. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was one…
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4 December 1865
North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed two days later by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks. The…
14 April 1865
President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; He dies the following day. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln occurred on the…
1 February 1865
President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on December 6, 1865,…
11 October 1865
Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion. The Morant Bay Rebellion was a pivotal event in Jamaican and…
12 August 1865
Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery. On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise…
27 July 1865
Welsh settlers to settle in Chubut in Argentina. The first group of settlers, nearly 200 people gathered from all over Wales, but mainly north and…
24 December 1865
The Ku Klux Klan is formed. The white supremacist group was founded on December 24th, 1865. In the hood: two members of the Ku Klux…
24 December 1865
The Ku Klux Klan is formed. On this day in history, six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan. The name…