January 1865

Tuesday 31:
American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.

February

Wednesday 22:
Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery

March

Friday 03:
The U.S. Congress authorizes formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.

Monday 13:
American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees to the use of African American troops.

April

Monday 17:
Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

May

Thursday 04:
Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois, three weeks after his assassination.

IRELAND

It was before a formal dinner in the beautiful long room of Trinity College Library, on the evening of 15 August 1835, that the Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Mulgrave, knighted William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Ireland's greatest mathematician. A spectator observed that the 'magnificent entertainment resembled the coronation festival of George IV' 1 – an event that had happened across the Irish sea fifteen years earlier.

William Butler Yeats was born (Yeats, W. B. 1865)

James Stephens was not on the premises of the ' The Irish People ' newspaper when it was raided by the British on the 15th September 1865 and escaped 'arrest' ; he was put-up in a safe-house in Sandymount , Dublin.

However , on the morning of 11th November 1865 , the British caught-up with James Stephens ; he was put in the then Richmond Jail (later to become Richmond Free State Army Barracks , then Griffith Free State Army Barracks ).

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Just some of the things that happened in 1865 -