What Happened In December 1865 In History

Historical Events for December, 1865

• 1st » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• 5th » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
• 6th » The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
• 17th » First performance of the Symphony No. 8 (Schubert) or Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
• 24th » The Ku Klux Klan is formed.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1865

• 2nd » Louis Zutter, Swiss gymnast (d. 1946)
• 8th » Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general (d. 1946)
• 8th » Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
• 8th » Jean Sibelius, Finnish pianist and composer (d. 1957)
• 16th » Olavo Bilac, Brazilian journalist and poet (d. 1918)
• 19th » Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (d. 1932)
• 20th » Elsie de Wolfe, American actress and interior decorator (d. 1950)
• 22nd » Charles Sands, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1945)
• 25th » Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1950)
• 30th » Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)

Famous Deaths for December 1865

• 1st » Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (b. 1796)
• 10th » Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 14th » Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist and mineralogist (b. 1794)
• 24th » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and historian (b. 1793)

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