Editing 1865 (section)

== 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 [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Seward William Seward] is nearly wounded at his mansion by [[Lewis Powell]] and President [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln Abraham Lincoln] is [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|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 [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Boston_Corbett 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 of Belgium|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.