Today in History for April 1865

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 36 of 36

1st - -9] Battle at Blakely Alabama
1st - Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army
2nd - Battle of Petersburg, VA (Ft Gregg, Sutherland's Station)
2nd - CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA
2nd - Battle of Ft Blakely AL & Selma AL
3rd - Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
3rd - Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va & Petersberg
4th - Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
5th - Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Va (Appomattox Campaign)
6th - Battle of Sayler's Creek during US Civil War, 1/4rd of Lee's army cut off
6th - Skirmish at High Bridge VA (Appomattox) during US Civil war;
7th - Battle of Farmville VA
9th - General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
10th - At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last
11th - Battle of Mobile, AL - evacuated by Confederates
11th - Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction
13th - Battle of Raleigh, NC
13th - Sherman's march through Georgia begins
14th - Mobile, Alabama is captured
Confederate General Robert E Lee 14th - US Secret Service created to fight counterfeiting
14th - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
14th - President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
15th - Otto von Bismarck elevated to rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen
16th - Battle of Columbus & West Point, GA (Ft Tyler)
17th - Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination
18th - Confederate Gen Johnson surrendered to Gen Sherman in North Carolina
20th - Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens
21st - Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
24th - Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
26th - Battle of Durham Station, NC (Greensboro)
26th - Battle of Ft Tobacco, VA
26th - Confederate Gen J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tenn, at Durham NC
27th - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
27th - Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up
Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck 28th - Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine," premieres in Paris
30th - -5/1] Gen Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 11 of 11

1st - Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925)
8th - Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940)
9th - Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Germany, experiment with AC electricity
9th - Erich Ludendorff, general (Germany)
10th - Jack Miner, Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
13th - Heinrich Reinhardt, composer
16th - Henry George Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945)
17th - Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (d. 1939)
23rd - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
27th - Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)
30th - Max Nettlau, German anarchist (d. 1944)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 15 of 15

1st - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
2nd - Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39
2nd - Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60
6th - John Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36
6th - Reuben B Boston, US Confederate cavalery colonel, dies in battle
8th - John Park, composer, dies at 61
9th - Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32
15th - Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, dies from gunshot wound at 56
16th - Robert C Tyler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
22nd - Francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries
23rd - James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24
26th - Charles J Sax, Belgium musician and father of Adolphe Sax inventor of the saxophone, dies at 74
26th - John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green VA at 27
28th - Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787)
30th - Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)