1865
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1865 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1865th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 865
January 15: Union captures Fort Fisher.
April 2: Jefferson Davis.
April 9: Appomattox Court House.
April 14: Lincoln shot.
John Wilkes Booth
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John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. During the American Civil War he served
1865
…while attending an evening performance of the farce Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. United States Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home, by Lewis Powell. April 15 – President Lincoln dies early…
Booth, c. 1865
Tudor Hall in 1865
The Richmond Theatre, Richmond, Virginia in 1858, when Booth, who had started acting in 1855, made his first stage appearance there in the repertory company
A carte de visite of John Wilkes Booth