WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1865
Find out what all happened August to December 1865

Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina. (1. December 1865)

First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert. (17. December 1865)

Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain. (5. December 1865)

Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile. (26. November 1865)

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery. (6. December 1865)

The Ku Klux Klan is formed. (24. December 1865)

Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press. (18. November 1865)

Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company. (11. November 1865)

Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion. (11. October 1865)

Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. (10. November 1865)

American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. (6. November 1865)