The Claywater Meteorite explodes just before reaching ground level in
Vernon County, Wisconsin; fragments having a combined mass of 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) are recovered.
American Civil War: In
Virginia, Confederate forces capture
Fort Stedman from the Union. Lee's army suffers heavy casualties: about 2,900, including 1,000 captured in the Union counterattack. Confederate positions are weakened. After the battle, Lee's defeat is only a matter of time.
April 2 – American Civil War: Confederate President
Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of
Richmond, Virginia, which is taken by Union troops the next day.
April 6 – German chemicals producer Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (
BASF) is founded in
Mannheim.
April 15 – President Lincoln dies early this morning from his gunshot wound, aged 56. Vice President
Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States upon Lincoln's death and is
sworn in later that morning.
April 18 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his entire cabinet arrive in
Charlotte, North Carolina, with a contingent of 1,000 soldiers.
Jefferson Davis meets with his Confederate Cabinet (14 officials) for the last time, in Washington, Georgia, and the Confederate Government is officially dissolved.
May 10 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by the Union Army near
Irwinville, Georgia.
May 12–
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 with casualties, ends with a Confederate victory.
May 29 – American Civil War: President of the United States
Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation of general amnesty for most citizens of the former Confederacy.
June 2 – American Civil War: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River under General
Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at
Galveston, Texas, under terms negotiated on
May 26, becoming the last to do so.
September 26 –
Champ Ferguson becomes the first person (and one of only two) to be convicted of war crimes for actions taken during the
American Civil War, found guilty by a U.S. Army tribunal on 23 charges, arising from the murder of 53 people. He is hanged on
October 20, two days after the conviction of
Henry Wirz for war crimes.[10]
November 11 –
Duar War between Britain and
Bhutan ends with the Treaty of Sinchula, in which Bhutan cedes control of its southern passes to Britain in return for an annual subsidy.[7]
^"Death Record Detail: James Munroe Canty". West Virginia Archives and History, West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. 2019.
Archived from the original on August 2, 2020. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
^Leps, James H. (1865). A Funeral Discourse, by the Rev. Jas. H. Leps, at Romney, West Va. on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. William Armstrong, Who Died at New Creek Station, West Va. on the 10th May, 1865. Baltimore: John W. Woods, Printer. p. 1.
OCLC652541197.
The Claywater Meteorite explodes just before reaching ground level in
Vernon County, Wisconsin; fragments having a combined mass of 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) are recovered.
American Civil War: In
Virginia, Confederate forces capture
Fort Stedman from the Union. Lee's army suffers heavy casualties: about 2,900, including 1,000 captured in the Union counterattack. Confederate positions are weakened. After the battle, Lee's defeat is only a matter of time.
April 2 – American Civil War: Confederate President
Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of
Richmond, Virginia, which is taken by Union troops the next day.
April 6 – German chemicals producer Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (
BASF) is founded in
Mannheim.
April 15 – President Lincoln dies early this morning from his gunshot wound, aged 56. Vice President
Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States upon Lincoln's death and is
sworn in later that morning.
April 18 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his entire cabinet arrive in
Charlotte, North Carolina, with a contingent of 1,000 soldiers.
Jefferson Davis meets with his Confederate Cabinet (14 officials) for the last time, in Washington, Georgia, and the Confederate Government is officially dissolved.
May 10 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by the Union Army near
Irwinville, Georgia.
May 12–
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 with casualties, ends with a Confederate victory.
May 29 – American Civil War: President of the United States
Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation of general amnesty for most citizens of the former Confederacy.
June 2 – American Civil War: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River under General
Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at
Galveston, Texas, under terms negotiated on
May 26, becoming the last to do so.
September 26 –
Champ Ferguson becomes the first person (and one of only two) to be convicted of war crimes for actions taken during the
American Civil War, found guilty by a U.S. Army tribunal on 23 charges, arising from the murder of 53 people. He is hanged on
October 20, two days after the conviction of
Henry Wirz for war crimes.[10]
November 11 –
Duar War between Britain and
Bhutan ends with the Treaty of Sinchula, in which Bhutan cedes control of its southern passes to Britain in return for an annual subsidy.[7]
^"Death Record Detail: James Munroe Canty". West Virginia Archives and History, West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. 2019.
Archived from the original on August 2, 2020. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
^Leps, James H. (1865). A Funeral Discourse, by the Rev. Jas. H. Leps, at Romney, West Va. on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. William Armstrong, Who Died at New Creek Station, West Va. on the 10th May, 1865. Baltimore: John W. Woods, Printer. p. 1.
OCLC652541197.