May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
August 7 » American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
September 9 » Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
Day of death August 7, 1865
The temperature on August 7, 1865 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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.
January 2 » Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
January 31 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
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.
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