1865
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1865 (MDCCCLXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1865th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 865th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1865, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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Events
- William Booth creates the Salvation Army.
- The American Civil War ends.
Births
- October 22 – Paul Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1930)
- November 2 - Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth President of the United States (d. 1923)
- December 8 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
- December 30 – Rudyard Kipling, English writer and poet (d. 1936)
Deaths
- April 15 – Abraham Lincoln, 56, sixteenth President of the United States, assassinated (b. 1809)
- April 26 – John Wilkes Booth, 26, the man who killed United States President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
Date of shooting: April 14
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