May 29 » Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original Thirteen Colonies to ratify the Constitution and become one of the United States.
May 31 » Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
July 16 » The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
August 2 » The first United States Census is conducted.
December 17 » The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City.
December 26 » Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
Day of death February 17, 1865
The temperature on February 17, 1865 was about 1.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 23 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
March 29 » American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
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