January 18 » The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
February 6 » Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
March 21 » A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
June 11 » Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
June 25 » Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
July 26 » New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
Day of death December 30, 1865
The temperature on December 30, 1865 was about 2.8 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
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