See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 31 - American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes
general-in-chief.
February 17 - American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns as Confederate
forces flee from advancing Union forces.
February 22 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
March 3 - The United States Congress authorizes formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
March 13 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees
to the use of African American troops.
March 18 - American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America
adjourns for the last time.
March 19 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle
on the 21st the Confederate forces had retreated from Greenville, North Carolina.
March 25 - American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman
from the Union.
March 29 - American Civil War: Battle of Appomattox Court House begins.
April 1 - American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks - In Petersburg, Virginia, Confederate
General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
April 2 - American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his
Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia which is taken the next day.
April 9 - American Civil War: General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at
Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.
April 14 - US President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
April 26 - Union cavalry corner John Wilkes Booth and cavalryman Boston Corbett
shoots the assassin dead.
April 26 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his
army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
April 27 - The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,300 passengers, explodes and sinks in the
Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the
Andersonville Prison.
May 10 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near
Irwinville, Georgia.
May 13 - American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch - In far south Texas, more than a
month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the civil war ends
with a Union victory.
May 23 - Parade down Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC to celebrate the ending of
the American Civil War.
May 25 - Mobile magazine explosion: 300 are killed in Mobile, Alabama when an
ordnance depot explodes.
July 5 - William Booth founds the Christian Mission (later renamed to the Salvation Army).
July 21 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave
Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown..
July 27 - Welsh settlers arrive in Argentina at Chubut Valley.
December 24 - Several US Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan.
Gregor Mendel formulates his theories of Mendelian inheritance.
A forest fire near Silverton, Oregon destroys about one million acres of timber.
Leopold II becomes King of Belgium.
Last volume of Annals of Joseon Dynasty published.
Births:
January 19 -
Pleuntje Kamerling.
January 25 -
Thomas van den Houten.
February 12 -
Jan van den Houten.
February 19 -
Sven Hedin, scientist and explorer (+ 1952).
March 6 -
Willemina Tolenaars.
March 8 -
Jacobus van den Houte.
March 12 -
Henricus Adrianus van den Houten.
March 19 -
William Morton Wheeler, american entomologist and ethologist.
April 15 -
Jakob Ringelberg.
May 1 -
Jan Morijn.
May 14 -
Maria Johanna Berendina van Weezel.
May 15 -
Johannes Luikaart.
May 25 -
Pieter Zeeman, Nobel Prize winner (+ 1943).
May 26 -
Robert W. Chambers, artist (+ 1933).
June 3 - King
George V of the United Kingdom.
June 23 -
Klasina Wilhelmina van den Houten.
July 22 -
Leendert Vreeswijk.
July 28 -
Jacob van den Houten.
July 31 -
Janna Mar(t)ina Hendrikse.
August 24 - King
Ferdinand of Romania.
August 25 -
Leendert van Oeveren.
September 30 -
Marina Tamboer.
October 1 -
Paul Dukas, French composer.
October 26 -
Benjamin Guggenheim, businessman, went down on Titanic.
November 25 -
Johannus van den Houten.
November 28 -
Wouter Lokker.
December 8 -
Jean Sibelius, composer.
December 12 -
Teunis van den Houten.
Deaths:
January 29 -
Lena van den Houten.
February 16 -
Thomas van den Houten.
March 11 -
Jan van den Houten.
April 2 -
A.P. Hill, Confederate general.
April 4 -
Leentje van den Houten.
April 8 -
Henricus Adrianus van den Houten.
April 15 -
Abraham Lincoln, US President.
April 26 -
John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
May 15 -
Tanneke van den Houte.
June 7 -
Hermanus Tolenaars.
June 27 -
Jacob Quant.
July 11 -
Willemijntje van Damme.
August 8 -
Kornelis van den Houten.
September 30 -
Pleuntje Kamerling.
October 18 - Lord
Palmerston, Prime Minister of Britain.
November 12 -
Leendert Vreeswijk.
December 10 -
Leopold I of Belgium.
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