April 5 » United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
April 21 » Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
May 15 » War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
July 25 » The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
October 12 » The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
Day of death April 2, 1865
The temperature on April 2, 1865 was about 3.5 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 15 » American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
April 9 » American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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