1865

1865 (MDCCCLXV) 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 Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1830s  1840s  1850s  – 1860s –  1870s  1880s  1890s
Years:	1862 1863 1864 – 1865 – 1866 1867 1868

1865 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1865 MDCCCLXV
Ab urbe condita	2618
Armenian calendar	1314 ԹՎ ՌՅԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	6615
Bahá'í calendar	21–22
Balinese saka calendar	1786–1787
Bengali calendar	1272
Berber calendar	2815
British Regnal year	28 Vict. 1 – 29 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2409
Burmese calendar	1227
Byzantine calendar	7373–7374
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4561 or 4501     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4562 or 4502
Coptic calendar	1581–1582
Discordian calendar	3031
Ethiopian calendar	1857–1858
Hebrew calendar	5625–5626
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1921–1922
- Shaka Samvat	1786–1787
- Kali Yuga	4965–4966
Holocene calendar	11865
Igbo calendar	865–866
Iranian calendar	1243–1244
Islamic calendar	1281–1282
Japanese calendar	Genji 2 / Keiō 1 (慶応元年)
Javanese calendar	1793–1794
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4198
Minguo calendar	47 before ROC 民前47年
Nanakshahi calendar	397
Thai solar calendar	2407–2408
Tibetan calendar	阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 1991 or 1610 or 838     — to — 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 1992 or 1611 or 839

Events

• William Booth creates the Salvation Army.
• The American Civil War ends.

Births

• October 22 – Paul Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1930)
• December 8 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
• December 30 – Rudyard Kipling, English writer and poet (d. 1936)

Deaths

• April 15 – United States President Abraham Lincoln.
• April 26 – John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed United States President Abraham Lincoln.