1865

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1865.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• Event: P.T. Barnum's American Museum burns to the ground.

January

February

March

• March 4
  • Event: Halbert E. Paine sworn in to his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives

April

• April 11
  • Abraham Lincoln delivers a speech in which he advocates granting the right to vote to freed black slaves. John Wilkes Booth, incensed by the speech, resolves to kill the President.
• April 14
  • President Abraham Lincoln shot by an assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC. It also happens to be Good Friday
• April 15
  • Abraham Lincoln dies

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December