Today in History for March 1865

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 36 of 36

2nd - British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
2nd - Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
2nd - Gen Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough
2nd - Second Taranaki War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
3rd - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established by Abraham Lincoln to help destitute free blacks
3rd - Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
4th - Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
4th - President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president
6th - Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
6th - President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball
7th - -10] Battles round Kinston NC
8th - Battle of Kingston, NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
10th - Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC
11th - Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
12th - Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
13th - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
13th - US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
16th - Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
18th - Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL
18th - Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
19th - Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC
20th - 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC
20th - Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
21st - Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
22nd - Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
23rd - General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC
25th - Battle of Bluff Spring, FL
25th - Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg
25th - Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
25th - SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
27th - Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
29th - -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA , 7582 killed
29th - Battle of Quaker Road, VA
30th - -4] Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
31st - Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
31st - Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 10 of 10

1st - Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java)
1st - Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
3rd - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer
8th - Frederick William Goudy, US, printer/type designer
9th - Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896..1918)
10th - Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, Dutch journalist/writer/sport-organizer
16th - Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1953)
19th - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
22nd - Theophile Ysaye, composer
30th - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

1st - Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
2nd - Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
10th - William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confed gen-maj, dies at 48
20th - Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
26th - Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies
27th - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
28th - Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26