Decades: 1810s1820s1830s1840s1850s - 1860s - 1870s1880s1890s1900s1910s
Years: 18601861186218631864 - 1865 - 18661867186818691870
Events
- January 31 - American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
- February 17 - American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
- February 22 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
- March 3 - The United States Congress authorizes formation of the Freedmen's Bureau
- March 13 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees to the use of African American troops.
- March 18 - American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time
- March 19 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle on the 21st the Confederate forces had retreated from Greenville, North Carolina.
- March 25 - American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
- March 29 - American Civil War: Battle of Appomattox Court House begins
- April 1 - American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks - In Petersburg, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
- April 2 - American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia which is taken the next day.
- April 9 - American Civil War: General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.
- April 14 - US President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
- July 4 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published.
- December 24 - Several US Cival War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan.
- Gregor Mendel formulates his theories of Mendelian inheritance.
- A forest fire near Silverton, Oregon destroys about one million acres of timber.
- February 19 - Sven Hedin, scientist (+ 1952)
- October 1 - Paul Dukas, French composer
- October 26 - Benjamin Guggenheim, businessman, went down on Titanic
- December 8 - Jean Sibelius, composer
- December 24 - The Ku Klux Klan is formed
- April 2 - A.P. Hill, Confederate general
- April 15 - Abraham Lincoln, US President
- April 26 - John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln
- December 10 - Leopold I of Belgium