1865

Events

• April 9 - The American Civil War ends with the surrender of Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, following an initial battle that morning, at the Appomattox Court House.
• April 14 - Secretary of State William Seward is nearly wounded at his mansion by Lewis Powell and President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while attending a performance of the stage play Our American Cousin at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. George Atzerodt fails to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson at the Kirkwood Hotel.
• April 15 - Andrew Johnson is sworn in as President of the United States.
• April 26 - John Wilkes Booth and David Herold are caught at a tobacco barn by Union officers. Booth is killed by Union Corporal Boston Corbett while Herold is captured by Union officers.
• May 5 - The Confederate States of America are officially dissolved by President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet.
• May 10 - Jefferson Davis is captured along with his wife Varina by Union troops while attempting to escape towards a creek wearing an overcoat. He was on his way from the former Confederacy's capitol in which he was going to board a ship along with his family, and thus flee to Cuba for safety.
• July 7 - Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt are executed by hanging.
• November 6 - All remaining hostilities of the American Civil War officially end with the crew of CSS Shenandoah surrendering themselves and the ship to Captain Paynter of the HMS Donegal, at the port of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
• December 17 - Leopold II is crowned King of the Belgians following the death of his father, Leopold I.
• December 24 - The first incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee by former Confederate Army officers Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones and James Crowe.

Births

Villain births

• April 9 - Erich Ludendorff
• July 26 - Pēteris Stučka
• August 18 - Ippolit Giliarovsky
• December 14 - George Chapman (aka Severin Klosowski)

Deaths

Villain deaths

• April 26 - John Wilkes Booth
• July 7 - Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, David Herold and Mary Surratt
• October 20 - Champ Ferguson

Victim deaths

• April 15 - Abraham Lincoln