February 1865 in History

Events in History

Feb 1 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins

Feb 1 JS Rock, 1st African American lawyer to practise in US Supreme Court, admitted to bar
Feb 1 US President Lincoln signs 13th Amendment of US Constitution, abolishing slavery in US; celebrated as National Freedom Day [1]
Feb 3 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
Feb 4 Hawaiian Board of Education formed

Feb 4 Robert E. Lee is named general-in-chief of Confederate forces

Feb 5 Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
Feb 6 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run)
Feb 8 Martin Robison Delany, 1st black major in US Army appointed during US Civil war
Feb 12 Henry Highland Garnet becomes the 1st African American minister to preach to the US House of Representatives, he talks about the end of slavery
Feb 17 -18] Battle of Charleston, South Carolina
Feb 17 Columbia in South Carolina burns down during the American Civil War
Feb 18 Battle of Fort Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
Feb 18 Evacuation of Charleston, South Carolina
Feb 18 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC
Feb 20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
Feb 22 Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
Feb 22 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
Feb 27 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri

Feb 3 Martinus Ballings, Belgian Jesuit author (Will Power) (d. 1958)
Feb 4 Charles Bally, Swiss linguist (Le langage et la vie), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1947)
Feb 9 Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, glaciologist and polar explorer, born in Königsberg, East Prussia (d. 1949)
Feb 12 Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer and poet (Young Poland), born in Ludźmierz, Galicia (d. 1940)
Feb 19 Sven Hedin, Swedish scientist and explorer who travelled and mapped Central Asia (Central Asia Atlas), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1952)
Feb 21 John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967)
Feb 22 Otto Modersohn, German landscape painter (Worpswede artist colony), born in Soest (d. 1943)
Feb 28 Arthur Symons, Welsh poet and critic (co-founder Savoy magazine), born in Milford Haven, Wales (d. 1945)
Feb 28 Wilfred Grenfell, British medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador, born in Neston, England (d. 1940)

Feb 6 John Pegram, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 33
Feb 7 John Henry Winder, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and provost marshal, dies at 64
Feb 10 Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
Feb 15 Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies at 62
Feb 24 Edmund John Armstrong, Irish poet, dies at 23
Feb 25 Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47