1865

Events

 * January 1:
 * Reuben Fenton becomes Governor of New York
 * March 4:
 * Andrew Johnson becomes Vice President of the United States
 * April 15:
 * John Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre
 * Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States
 * April 26:
 * John Booth is killed in gunfight with Union Soldiers

Births

 * July 23:
 * Edward Terry Sanford - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 1930)
 * August 27:
 * Charles Gates Dawes: 30th Vice President of the United States (d. 1951)

Deaths

 * April 15:
 * Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
 * April 26:
 * John Wilkes Booth - Confederate sympathizer who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)