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25 July – Dr James Barry, military surgeon, revealed on death to be a woman, probably Margaret Ann Bulkley (born 1789–1799) 28 July – William Henry Smith, businessman (born 1792) 12 August – Sir William Hooker, botanist (born 1785) 24 August – Charles Baillie-Hamilton, politician (born 1800)
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 (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 865th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1865, the ...
The 1865 general election was regarded by contemporaries as being a generally dull contest nationally, which exaggerated the degree of corruption within individual constituencies. In his PhD thesis, Cornelius O'Leary described The Times as having reported "the testimony is unanimous that in the General Election of 1865 there was more profuse ...
25 September: Snow falls in London. October: The London School of Economics holds its first classes. November: The Lee–Enfield rifle, produced at the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, is adopted as standard issue by the British Army, remaining in service until the 1960s. [203] The Agapemonites complete the Ark of the Covenant church in ...
25 June: First Ten Acres and Stirchley Street Co-operative Society shop opens. September: Association football team Birmingham City F.C. is founded as Small Heath Alliance by a group of cricketers from Holy Trinity Church, Bordesley, playing its first match in November. [28] St Martin in the Bull Ring rebuilding completed. [1]
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Pages in category "1865 in England" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Guilden Morden boar; L.
In September 1862, Britain (along with France) contemplated stepping in and negotiating a peace settlement, which could only mean war with the United States. But in the same month, US president Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation would be issued in January 1863 making abolition of slavery in the Confederacy a war goal.