Explore the major historical events, famous births, and notable deaths that occurred in the year 1865. This year saw 106 significant events. 5 notable figures were born. 1 notable figure passed away.
The New York Stock Exchange Building (also NYSE Building) is the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), located in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
Confederate Brigadier-General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary (US Civil War)
Congress passes, by a vote of 121-24, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States except as punishment for a crime [1] [2]
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general whose early actions in the American Civil War led to his appointment as the overall commander of the Confederate…
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general whose early actions in the American Civil War led to his appointment as the overall commander of the Confederate…
Union forces led by William T. Sherman capture the state capital of Columbia, South Carolina. The city is ablaze by nightfall, fanned by high winds devastating much of the city. It is not known which side started the fires.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to U.S. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War in Northern Virginia
US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington; he dies a day later
Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history; most are paroled Union POWs on their way home.
President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation declaring that armed resistance in the South is virtually at an end, the commonly accepted end date of the American Civil War
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on the medieval 12th-century romance Tristan...
Union General Gordon Granger declares slaves free in Texas, now the date the end of slavery is celebrated across the US as Juneteenth
The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender
One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine Booth found the East London Christian Mission, now known as The Salvation Army
US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department
Physicist Johannes van der Waals (27) weds Anna Magdalena Smit (18)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.
13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery except as a punishment for crime where the party has been duly convicted [1]
Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished Symphony", premieres in Vienna with Johann von Herbeck conducting
Welterweight Con Orem and heavyweight Hugh O'Neill brawl for 185 rounds before darkness ends the legendary bare-knuckle boxing match in Virginia City, Montana
Battle of Beverly, West Virginia, Confederate forces attack Union post
Second Battle of Fort Fisher: A force of 58 Union ships and over 8,000 troops converge on Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Second Battle of Fort Fisher: Union Navy bombards Fort Fisher, North Carolina, allowing Union troops to capture Confederacy's last remaining seaport [1]
Battle of Ft Moultrie, South Carolina
NV Suriname Bank established
-Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, Virginia (James River, Trent's Reach)
CSS Shenandoah, formerly Sea King and later El Majidi, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full-rigged sailing ship with auxiliary steam power chiefly known for her actions under Lieutenant Commander...
JS Rock, 1st African American lawyer to practise in US Supreme Court, admitted to bar
Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
Hawaiian Board of Education formed
US Civil War: Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
Martin Robison Delany, 1st black major in US Army appointed during US Civil War
Henry Highland Garnet becomes the first African American minister to preach to the US House of Representatives, he talks about the end of slavery
-18] Battle of Charleston, South Carolina
Battle of Fort Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
Massachusetts Institute of Technology forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
Fort Fisher was a Confederate fort during the American Civil War. It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, from 1861 until its capture by the Union in 1865.
Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
HSBC Holdings plc is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical and business links to East Asia and a multinational footprint.
The Battle of Natural Bridge was fought during the American Civil War near what is now Woodville, Florida south of Tallahassee on March 6, 1865.
-10] Battles around Kinston, North Carolina
Battle of Kingston, North Carolina (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle) took place during the Carolinas campaign of the...
Battle of Averasboro North Carolina (1,500 casualties)
The Battle of Selma was fought on April 2, 1865 in Dallas County, Alabama during the American Civil War.
Battle of Bentonville, Confederates retreat from Greenville North Carolina
The Battle of Bentonville (March 19–21, 1865) was fought in Johnston County, North Carolina, near the village of Bentonville, as part of the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
William Tecumseh Sherman ( tih-KUM-sə; February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.
Wilson's Raid: 13,480 cavalry troops led by Union General James H. Wilson destroys most of Confederate Alabama and Georgia's arms-manufacturing and rail capabilities; raid lasts through mid-April [1] [2]
Florida is a state in the Southeastern and South Atlantic regions of the United States.
Battle of Spanish Fort: Union forces led by E.R.S. Canby lay siege to the heavily fortified Confederate Spanish Fort in Baldwin County, Alabama
-Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed
The Battle of Dinwiddie Court House was fought on March 31, 1865, during the American Civil War at the end of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign and in the beginning stage of the Appomattox Campaign.
Blakeley is a ghost town in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. During the height of its existence, Blakeley was a thriving town which flourished as a competitor to its western neighbor, Mobile.
The Battle of Fort Blakeley took place from April 2 to April 9, 1865, in Baldwin County, Alabama, about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Spanish Fort, Alabama, as part of the Mobile Campaign of the American...
The Battle of Namozine Church was an engagement in Amelia County, Virginia, between Union Army and Confederate States Army forces that occurred on April 3, 1865, during the Appomattox Campaign of the...
The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E.
Battle of High Bridge, fought near Farmville, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
The Battle of Cumberland Church was fought on April 7, 1865, between the Union Army's II Corps of the Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign...
Raleigh is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the second-most populous city in the state (after Charlotte), tenth most populous city in the Southeast, the largest city in the...
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,...
Crosby's Opera House (1865–1871) was an opera house in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was founded by Uranus H.
Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco
The history of Cornell University begins when its two founders, Andrew Dickson White of Syracuse and Ezra Cornell of Ithaca, met in the New York State Senate in January 1864.
L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1837 five-act French grand opéra by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Eugène Scribe.
Richard "Dick" Taylor was an American planter, politician, military historian, and Confederate general.
First US train robbery occurs at North Bend, Ohio
Confederate Brigadier General Meriwether Jeff Thompson surrenders at Jacksonport, Arkansas
The Battle of Palmito Ranch, also known as the Battle of Palmito Hill, is considered by some criteria the final battle of the American Civil War.
Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas: final engagement of the American Civil War, Private John Jefferson Williams of B Company, 34th Regiment Indiana Infantry is last man killed
The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established
-24] Victory parade in Washington, D.C. (Grand Review)
Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893) was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department (comprising Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, western Louisiana,...
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrenders his Trans-Mississippi Department to Union forces at Galveston, Texas; he then flees to Mexico to avoid charges of treason
At Fort Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confederate army
The Army of the Potomac was the primary field army of the Union army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., one month into his second term and towards the conclusion of the American...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.
Speed limits on road traffic, as used in most countries, set the legal maximum speed at which vehicles may travel on a given stretch of road.
Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the "New-York Tribune," reputedly advises his readers to "Go west, young man"
English mountaineer Edward Whymper leads the first expedition to climb the Matterhorn; four die on the descent
Patrick Francis Healy (February 27, 1834 – January 10, 1910) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second...
Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina
Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia
Battle of Lone Jack, Missouri: Fierce fighting between Union soldiers and Confederate forces, prompted by bushwhacker attacks, destroys the town of Lone Jack
Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after four years of fighting against the Spanish annexation
Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications.
The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate army or the Southern army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy)...
Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Circus performer James Cooke walks a 150-yard tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks in San Francisco
Santa Cruz (Spanish for 'Holy Cross') is the largest city in and the county seat of Santa Cruz County, California. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 62,956.
First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
The Morant Bay Rebellion (11 October 1865) began with a protest march to the courthouse by hundreds of people led by preacher Paul Bogle in Morant Bay, Jamaica.
Cheyennes & Arapahos sign "peace treaty" then chased out Colorado
Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender in the American Civil War after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise that sinks or captures 38 vessels
Mary Edwards Walker, the first female US Army surgeon, is awarded the Medal of Honor
Gold certificates were issued by the United States Treasury as a form of representative money from 1865 to 1933.
Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
The Chincha Islands War, also known as Spanish–South American War (Spanish: Guerra hispano-sudamericana), was a series of coastal and naval battles between Spain and its former colonies of Peru,...
1st US cattle importation law passed
De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK; ), sometimes called the Klan, is an American Protestant-led white supremacist and far-right hate group.
James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
Henri Desgrange is born
Erich Ludendorff, German general and politician, known for german general and politician, was born on 1865-04-09. Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff was a German general and politician.
George Lohmann is born
Edith Cavell, British nurse, known for british nurse, was born on 1865-12-04. Edith Louisa Cavell ( KAV-əl; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse.
Clyde Fitch, American playwright, known for american playwright, was born on 1865-05-02.
John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin, known for american stage actor and assassin, died on 1865-04-26.
The New York Stock Exchange Building (also NYSE Building) is the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), located in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
Confederate Brigadier-General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary (US Civil War)
Congress passes, by a vote of 121-24, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States except as punishment for a crime [1] [2]
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general whose early actions in the American Civil War led to his appointment as the overall commander of the Confederate…
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general whose early actions in the American Civil War led to his appointment as the overall commander of the Confederate…
Union forces led by William T. Sherman capture the state capital of Columbia, South Carolina. The city is ablaze by nightfall, fanned by high winds devastating much of the city. It is not known which side started the fires.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to U.S. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War in Northern Virginia
US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington; he dies a day later
Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history; most are paroled Union POWs on their way home.
President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation declaring that armed resistance in the South is virtually at an end, the commonly accepted end date of the American Civil War
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on the medieval 12th-century romance Tristan...
Union General Gordon Granger declares slaves free in Texas, now the date the end of slavery is celebrated across the US as Juneteenth
The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender
One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine Booth found the East London Christian Mission, now known as The Salvation Army
US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department
Physicist Johannes van der Waals (27) weds Anna Magdalena Smit (18)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.
13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery except as a punishment for crime where the party has been duly convicted [1]
Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished Symphony", premieres in Vienna with Johann von Herbeck conducting
Welterweight Con Orem and heavyweight Hugh O'Neill brawl for 185 rounds before darkness ends the legendary bare-knuckle boxing match in Virginia City, Montana
Battle of Beverly, West Virginia, Confederate forces attack Union post
Second Battle of Fort Fisher: A force of 58 Union ships and over 8,000 troops converge on Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Second Battle of Fort Fisher: Union Navy bombards Fort Fisher, North Carolina, allowing Union troops to capture Confederacy's last remaining seaport [1]
Battle of Ft Moultrie, South Carolina
NV Suriname Bank established
-Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, Virginia (James River, Trent's Reach)
CSS Shenandoah, formerly Sea King and later El Majidi, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full-rigged sailing ship with auxiliary steam power chiefly known for her actions under Lieutenant Commander...
JS Rock, 1st African American lawyer to practise in US Supreme Court, admitted to bar
Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
Hawaiian Board of Education formed
US Civil War: Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
Martin Robison Delany, 1st black major in US Army appointed during US Civil War
Henry Highland Garnet becomes the first African American minister to preach to the US House of Representatives, he talks about the end of slavery
-18] Battle of Charleston, South Carolina
Battle of Fort Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
Massachusetts Institute of Technology forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
Fort Fisher was a Confederate fort during the American Civil War. It protected the vital trading routes of the port at Wilmington, North Carolina, from 1861 until its capture by the Union in 1865.
Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
HSBC Holdings plc is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical and business links to East Asia and a multinational footprint.
The Battle of Natural Bridge was fought during the American Civil War near what is now Woodville, Florida south of Tallahassee on March 6, 1865.
-10] Battles around Kinston, North Carolina
Battle of Kingston, North Carolina (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle) took place during the Carolinas campaign of the...
Battle of Averasboro North Carolina (1,500 casualties)
The Battle of Selma was fought on April 2, 1865 in Dallas County, Alabama during the American Civil War.
Battle of Bentonville, Confederates retreat from Greenville North Carolina
The Battle of Bentonville (March 19–21, 1865) was fought in Johnston County, North Carolina, near the village of Bentonville, as part of the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
William Tecumseh Sherman ( tih-KUM-sə; February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.
Wilson's Raid: 13,480 cavalry troops led by Union General James H. Wilson destroys most of Confederate Alabama and Georgia's arms-manufacturing and rail capabilities; raid lasts through mid-April [1] [2]
Florida is a state in the Southeastern and South Atlantic regions of the United States.
Battle of Spanish Fort: Union forces led by E.R.S. Canby lay siege to the heavily fortified Confederate Spanish Fort in Baldwin County, Alabama
-Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed
The Battle of Dinwiddie Court House was fought on March 31, 1865, during the American Civil War at the end of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign and in the beginning stage of the Appomattox Campaign.
Blakeley is a ghost town in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. During the height of its existence, Blakeley was a thriving town which flourished as a competitor to its western neighbor, Mobile.
The Battle of Fort Blakeley took place from April 2 to April 9, 1865, in Baldwin County, Alabama, about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Spanish Fort, Alabama, as part of the Mobile Campaign of the American...
The Battle of Namozine Church was an engagement in Amelia County, Virginia, between Union Army and Confederate States Army forces that occurred on April 3, 1865, during the Appomattox Campaign of the...
The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E.
Battle of High Bridge, fought near Farmville, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
The Battle of Cumberland Church was fought on April 7, 1865, between the Union Army's II Corps of the Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign...
Raleigh is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the second-most populous city in the state (after Charlotte), tenth most populous city in the Southeast, the largest city in the...
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,...
Crosby's Opera House (1865–1871) was an opera house in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was founded by Uranus H.
Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco
The history of Cornell University begins when its two founders, Andrew Dickson White of Syracuse and Ezra Cornell of Ithaca, met in the New York State Senate in January 1864.
L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1837 five-act French grand opéra by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Eugène Scribe.
Richard "Dick" Taylor was an American planter, politician, military historian, and Confederate general.
First US train robbery occurs at North Bend, Ohio
Confederate Brigadier General Meriwether Jeff Thompson surrenders at Jacksonport, Arkansas
The Battle of Palmito Ranch, also known as the Battle of Palmito Hill, is considered by some criteria the final battle of the American Civil War.
Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas: final engagement of the American Civil War, Private John Jefferson Williams of B Company, 34th Regiment Indiana Infantry is last man killed
The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established
-24] Victory parade in Washington, D.C. (Grand Review)
Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893) was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department (comprising Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, western Louisiana,...
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrenders his Trans-Mississippi Department to Union forces at Galveston, Texas; he then flees to Mexico to avoid charges of treason
At Fort Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confederate army
The Army of the Potomac was the primary field army of the Union army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., one month into his second term and towards the conclusion of the American...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.
Speed limits on road traffic, as used in most countries, set the legal maximum speed at which vehicles may travel on a given stretch of road.
Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the "New-York Tribune," reputedly advises his readers to "Go west, young man"
English mountaineer Edward Whymper leads the first expedition to climb the Matterhorn; four die on the descent
Patrick Francis Healy (February 27, 1834 – January 10, 1910) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second...
Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina
Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia
Battle of Lone Jack, Missouri: Fierce fighting between Union soldiers and Confederate forces, prompted by bushwhacker attacks, destroys the town of Lone Jack
Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after four years of fighting against the Spanish annexation
Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications.
The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate army or the Southern army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy)...
Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Circus performer James Cooke walks a 150-yard tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks in San Francisco
Santa Cruz (Spanish for 'Holy Cross') is the largest city in and the county seat of Santa Cruz County, California. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 62,956.
First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
The Morant Bay Rebellion (11 October 1865) began with a protest march to the courthouse by hundreds of people led by preacher Paul Bogle in Morant Bay, Jamaica.
Cheyennes & Arapahos sign "peace treaty" then chased out Colorado
Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender in the American Civil War after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise that sinks or captures 38 vessels
Mary Edwards Walker, the first female US Army surgeon, is awarded the Medal of Honor
Gold certificates were issued by the United States Treasury as a form of representative money from 1865 to 1933.
Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
The Chincha Islands War, also known as Spanish–South American War (Spanish: Guerra hispano-sudamericana), was a series of coastal and naval battles between Spain and its former colonies of Peru,...
1st US cattle importation law passed
De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK; ), sometimes called the Klan, is an American Protestant-led white supremacist and far-right hate group.
James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
Henri Desgrange is born
Erich Ludendorff, German general and politician, known for german general and politician, was born on 1865-04-09. Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff was a German general and politician.
George Lohmann is born
Edith Cavell, British nurse, known for british nurse, was born on 1865-12-04. Edith Louisa Cavell ( KAV-əl; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse.
Clyde Fitch, American playwright, known for american playwright, was born on 1865-05-02.