January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
March 4 » Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
August 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
September 27 » The National Assembly votes to award full citizenship to Jews in France.
Day of death July 26, 1865
The temperature on July 26, 1865 was about 18.4 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
February 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
April 13 » American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
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