February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
October 1 » First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
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.
April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
May 1 » The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
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