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April 11, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. ... The Inman steamer City of Dublin was dispatched for Europe at 5 P.M., to-day, as a special steamer to convey the news of LEE's surrender.

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1865: Gregor Mendel reads his first paper on genetics to the local scientific organization. It will be decades before Mendel’s intellectual seeds take root in the fertile grounds of Darwinism ...

The Kansas treaties of 1865 and 1867 shaped and divided the state into an often violent, thundering clash of cultures, in the end forcing American Indians from the state and spurring European ...