1865

Events 
 William Booth creates the Salvation Army.
 The American Civil War ends.

 Births 
 October 22 – Paul Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1930)
 November 2 - Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth President of the United States (d. 1923)
 December 8 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
 December 30 – Rudyard Kipling, English writer and poet (d. 1936)

 Deaths 
 April 15 – Abraham Lincoln, 56, sixteenth President of the United States, assassinated (b. 1809) 
 April 26 – John Wilkes Booth, 26, the man who killed United States President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
Date of shooting: April 14