1865

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1830s  1840s  1850s  – 1860s –  1870s  1880s  1890s
Years:	1862 1863 1864 – 1865 – 1866 1867 1868

Events

• William Booth creates the Salvation Army.
• The American Civil War ends.

Births

• October 22 – Paul Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1930)
• December 8 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
• December 30 – Rudyard Kipling, English writer and poet (d. 1936)

Deaths

• April 15 – United States President Abraham Lincoln.
• April 26 – John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed United States President Abraham Lincoln.