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==US Secret Service==
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== Events ==
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* [[January 4]] – The [[New York Stock Exchange]] opens its first permanent headquarters at [[Broad Street (Manhattan)|10-12 Broad]] near [[Wall Street]], in New York City.
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* [[April 6]] – German [[Chemical industry|chemicals]] producer ''Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik ([[BASF]])'' is founded in [[Mannheim]].
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* [[April 9]] – [[American Civil War]]: [[Confederate States Army]] General [[Robert E. Lee]] surrenders to [[Union Army]] General [[Ulysses S. Grant]] at [[Appomattox Court House National Historical Park|Appomattox Court House]], effectively ending the [[American Civil War]].
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* [[April 14]]  – [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln]]: President [[Abraham Lincoln]] is shot while attending an evening performance of the [[farce]] ''[[Our American Cousin]]'' at [[Ford's Theatre]] in Washington, D.C., by actor and [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] sympathizer [[John Wilkes Booth]].
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* [[April 14]]  – [[United States Secretary of State]] [[William H. Seward]] and his family are attacked in his home, by [[Lewis Powell (conspirator)|Lewis Powell]].
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* [[April 15]] – President Lincoln dies early this morning from his gunshot wound, aged 56. Vice President [[Andrew Johnson]] becomes the 17th President of the United States, upon Lincoln's death. Johnson is [[Inauguration of Andrew Johnson|sworn in]] later that morning.
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* [[April 21]] – German [[Chemical industry|Chemicals]] producer ''[[BASF]]'' moves its headquarters and factories from [[Mannheim]], to the [[Hemshof|Hemshof District]] of [[Ludwigshafen]].
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* [[April 26]] – Union cavalry corner [[John Wilkes Booth]] in a [[Virginia]] barn, and cavalryman [[Boston Corbett]] fatally shoots the assassin.
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* [[May 1]] – The Triple Alliance of [[Argentina]], [[Brazil]], and [[Uruguay]] against [[Paraguay]] is formally signed; the [[Paraguayan War]] has already begun.
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* [[May 10]] – [[American Civil War]]: [[Jefferson Davis]] is captured by the [[Union Army]] near [[Irwinville, Georgia]].
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* [[May 17]] – The [[International Telegraph Union]] is founded.
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* [[May 29]] – [[American Civil War]]: President of the United States [[Andrew Johnson]] issues a proclamation of general amnesty for most citizens of the former Confederacy.
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* [[June]]&ndash;August &ndash; English [[polymath]] [[Francis Galton]] formulates [[eugenics]].<ref>http://www.mugu.com/galton/essays/1860-1869/galton-1865-hereditary-talent.pdf</ref>
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* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Confederate forces west of the [[Mississippi River]] under General [[Edmund Kirby Smith]] surrender at [[Galveston, Texas]], under terms negotiated on [[May 26]], becoming the last to do so.
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* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[James Hudson Taylor]] founds the [[China Inland Mission]] at [[Brighton]], England.
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* [[July 7]] &ndash; Following [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s assassination on [[April 14]], the four conspirators condemned to death during the trial are [[hanged]], including [[David Herold]], [[George Atzerodt]], [[Lewis Powell (conspirator)|Lewis Powell]] and [[Mary Surratt]]. Her son, [[John Surratt]], escapes execution by fleeing to Canada, and ultimately to [[Egypt]].
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* [[July 23]] &ndash; The SS Great Eastern departs on a voyage to lay a [[transatlantic telegraph cable]].
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* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Duar War]] between Britain and [[Bhutan]] ends with the Treaty of Sinchula, in which Bhutan cedes control of its southern passes to Britain in return for an annual subsidy.
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* [[December 11]] &ndash; The [[United States Congress]] creates the [[United States House Committee on Appropriations]] and the Committee on Banking and Commerce, reducing the tasks of the [[United States House Committee on Ways and Means|House Committee on Ways and Means]].
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* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Leopold II of Belgium|Leopold II]] becomes King of the Belgians, following the death (on December 10) of his father, King [[Leopold I of Belgium|Leopold I]].
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* [[December 18]] &ndash; Secretary Seward declares the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] ratified by three-quarters of the states (including those in secession) as of December 6; slavery is legally outlawed in the last two slave states of Kentucky and Delaware, and the remaining 45,000 slaves are freed.
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* [[December 24]] &ndash; Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form the [[Ku Klux Klan]] in the [[American South]], to resist [[Reconstruction Era|Reconstruction]] and intimidate ''[[carpetbagger]]s'' and ''[[scalawag]]s'', as well as to repress the freedpeople.
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Latest revision as of 07:31, 14 March 2021

1855 < 1856 < 1857 < 1858 < 1859 < 1860 < 1861 <1862 < 1863 < 1864 < 1865 > 1866 > 1867 > 1868 > 1869 > 1870 > 1871 > 1872 > 1873 > 1874 > 1875

Decade.png 1860s: )    Year.png 1865 Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Lincoln assassination slide c1900 - Restoration.jpg
President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
Year 1865

US Secret Service

Full article: United States Secret Service

Events


 

Events

EventStartEndDescription
Pax Brittanica18151915
Victorian era18401901
American Civil War18611865The Start of US World dominations, the Civil war saw capitalists fight capitalists in a war over tax, slavery and the question how big and kind of an imperial force the US should become on the North American continent.

 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
University of KansasUniversity of Kansas seal.pngFlagship state universityMid-western university with significant research activity
University of KentuckyUniversity of Kentucky seal.pngResearch
Public
Land-grant
Home of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, training a cadre of professionals for careers in international affairs.
Oxford Brookes UniversityGroup.pngPublic
Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWPI logo.pngMilitary ranksMassachusetts engineering and technology university
Indiana State UniversityIndiana State University Seal.pngSmall Midwestern university, not to be confused with Indiana University
The NationGroup.pngAmerican "progressive" magazine
Standard OilGroup.pngHugely profitable oil conglomerate that made John D. Rockefeller the richest man in the world.
Washburn UniversityWashburn University.pngPublicUniversity in Topeka, Kansas
HSBCHSBC.jpgThe Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, one of the world's biggest banks
US/Secret ServiceUS-SecretService-StarLogo.svgIntelligence agencyA US secret service focusing primarily on financial fraud and protecting key individuals such as politicians.
Lehigh UniversityLUwithShield-CMYK.svgMilitary ranksPrivate university in Pennsylvania
US/House/Committee/Financial ServicesGroup.pngBanks and financial institutions are normally very generous with their campaign contributions to committee members.

 

Deaths

TitleBornDiedPlace of deathSummaryDescription
Abraham Lincoln12 February 180915 April 1865United States
Washington DC
Petersen House
Politician
Lawyer
A US president who stood up to the US deep state
Henry John Temple20 October 178418 October 1865United Kingdom
Hertfordshire
Brocket Hall
PoliticianA British politician who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century.

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
William Lauriston Melville Lee18651955Spook
Soldier
Edward Stanley1865London
Westminster
1948Diplomat
Politician
Edmund Garrett18651907Politician
Editor
Deep state operative
UK deep state operative
Edward R. Stettinius Sr.15 February 1865Missouri
St. Louis
3 September 1925BusinesspersonWorked at J. P. Morgan and Company coordinating the purchase of war supplies for the Allies during WW1. Stettinus became the most important consumer on earth, buying goods for $10 million every day. Nicknamed "the father of the military-industrial complex".
Herbert A. L. Fisher21 March 1865London18 April 1940Politician
Academic
Historian
Deep state operative
UK deep state operative
Ralph Julius Preston27 May 186525 October 1919Diplomat
Lawyer
Wealthy US diplomat
George Albert3 June 1865London
Marlborough House
20 January 1936King
Alfred Harmsworth15 July 1865Eire
Chapelizod
County Dublin
14 August 1922Media mogul
Charles G. Dawes27 August 1865Ohio
Marietta
23 April 1951Soldier
Politician
Banker
Warren Harding2 November 1865United States
Ohio
Blooming Grove
2 August 1923Politician
Editor
Died under suspicious circumstances, as did a number of people around him.
Madison Grant19 November 1865New York30 May 1937Lawyer
Eugenics
Zoologist
"Hitler's American guru"
Maud Pember Reeves24 December 1865Australia
New South Wales
Mudgee
13 September 1953AuthorSuffragist, socialist, feminist, writer and member of the Fabian Society, married to William Pember Reeves the Agent-General, representative of New Zealand government within the British Empire. She spent most of her life in New Zealand and Britain.
Salmon Levinson29 December 18652 February 1941LawyerUS lawyer who originated and publicized the “outlawry of war” movement in the United States. Later assisted in drafting the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Rudyard Kipling30 December 1865India
Bombay
Bombay Presidency
18 January 1936Author
Journalist
Poet
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