The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death at the Theatre (TRIH ep 590, part 1)
1865 · Resource
This episode recounts Abraham Lincoln's final weeks after his re‑election in 1864 and the closing stages of the American Civil War. Holland and Sandbrook discuss Lincoln's subdued second inaugural, his conciliatory Reconstruction aims, and his tour of Richmond following its fall.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1865
- American Civil War (1861)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)