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What Happened in December 1865

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Historical Events

  • Dec 5 Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
  • Dec 6 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery (except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted) [1]

Unfinished Symphony

Dec 17 Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished Symphony", premieres in Vienna with Johann von Herbeck conducting

Composer Franz Schubert
  • Dec 18 1st US cattle importation law passed
  • Dec 20 De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
  • Dec 24 Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee
  • Dec 26 James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
Events in 1865

Famous Birthdays

Edith Cavell (1865-1915)

Dec 4 British nurse in World War I who was executed by Germany, born in Swardeston, Norfolk, England

Edith Cavell
  • Dec 4 Luther Gulick, American Basketball Hall of Fame contributor (basketball pioneer; international official), born in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands (d. 1918)
  • Dec 8 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (proved the prime number theorem), born in Versailles, France (d. 1963)

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Dec 8 Finnish composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia), born in Tavastehus, Finland

Jean Sibelius
  • Dec 13 Gustav Luders, German-American conductor and stage musical composer (The Prince of Pilsen), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1913)
  • Dec 16 Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor (d. 1954)
  • Dec 19 Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), born in Magdeburg Prussia (d. 1936)
  • Dec 19 Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1932)
  • Dec 20 Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator, born in New York City (d. 1950)
  • Dec 20 Maud Gonne, English-born Irish revolutionary, born in Tongham, United Kingdom (d. 1953)
  • Dec 25 Evangeline Cory Booth, English-American religious leader (Salvation Army general 1904-34), born in London, England (d. 1950)
  • Dec 27 Harry Butt, English cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests, 2 dismissals; Sussex CCC, MCC), born in London, England (d. 1928)
  • Dec 28 Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French painter and writer (Chaste Suzanna), born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1925)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Dec 30 English author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), born in Bombay, British India

Rudyard Kipling

Born in 1865

Famous Deaths

  • Dec 1 Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
  • Dec 1 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76
  • Dec 6 Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56
  • Dec 10 Leopold I, King of Belgium (1831-65), dies at 74
  • Dec 14 Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist, dies at 71
  • Dec 18 Francisco Manuel da Silva, Brazilian composer (Brazilian National Anthem), dies at 70
  • Dec 24 Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793)
  • Dec 30 Henry Winter Davis, American politician and unionist, dies at 48


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