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| 1865 |
| | | Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde has its premiere in the Munich court theatre | |
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| 1865 |
| | | The Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López starts a war against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay which eventually kills more than half his population | |
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| 1865 |
| | | The southern states pass new Black Codes, designed to limit the freedom granted to African-Americans by the victorious north | |
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| 1865 |
| | | A committee to campaign for women's suffrage is formed in Manchester, the first of many in Britain | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Leo Tolstoy publishes the first volume of his epic novel War and Peace, following the lives of several aristocratic families during the Napoleonic wars | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Palmerston dies in office, and is succeeded as leader of the Liberal government in Britain by his foreign secretary, Earl Russell | |
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| c. 1865 |
| | | The Plains Indians are threatened by settlers pressing west, building railways and slaughtering buffalo | |
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| 1865 |
| | | The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits slavery or any 'involuntary servitude' in the USA | |
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| 1865 |
| | | The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan is founded at Pulaski, in Tennessee, on Christmas Eve | |
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| 1865 |
| | | The last survivor of the Richmond tontine dies, at the age of 91, ending the payment of interest and making the Richmond Bridge free of tolls | |
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