18651865 is a common year starting on Sunday. 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 forc - SlaverySlavery is involuntary servitude, enforced by violence or other, clear forms of coercion. It is sometimes regarded as an expectation associated with other relationships, such as marriage and/or other family relations, military service, or debt relationshi is abolished in the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America š or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in, with the passing of the 13th Amendment
1890Events January 2 Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U. White House. January 25 The United Mine Workers of America is founded. January 25 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. March 1 Leon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest - London's first deep level tubeThe London Underground is a public transport network, composed of electrified railways (that is, a metro system) that run underground in tunnels in central London and above ground in the city's suburbs. The oldest metropolitan underground network in the w railway opens between King William StreetKing William Street is the name of a street in the City of London. It runs from a junction at the Bank of England, meeting Poultry, Lombard Street and Threadneedle Street, south-east, where it meets a junction with Gracechurch and Cannon Street. It contin and StockwellStockwell tube station is a London Underground station in Stockwell. It is on the Victoria Line between Vauxhall and Brixton, and the Northern Line between Clapham North, and Oval. It is in zone 2. The Victoria Line platforms opened on July 23, 1971.
1894 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
