Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The shot at Ford's Theatre five days after victory
On 14 April 1865, five days after the main Confederate army surrendered, the actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. The president died the next morning, the first US president to be assassinated.
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A witness to Lincoln's assassination talked about it on television. Samuel Seymour was five when he sat in Ford's Theatre in 1865; in February 1956 he appeared on the TV show I've Got a Secret. Share →
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — 20 years earlier
- 1861 Unification of Italy — 4 years earlier
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — 5 years later
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 21 years later
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 24 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 12 years earlier
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 4 years earlier
- 1864 End of the Caucasian War and the Circassian expulsion — 1 year earlier
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 2 years later
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 4 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 11 years later
Africa
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 18 years earlier
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 4 years later
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 14 years later
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 20 years later
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 20 years later
Asia
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 12 years earlier
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 3 years later
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 11 years later
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 18 years later
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 20 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 14 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 56)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 56)
- Karl Marx (aged 47)
- Queen Victoria (aged 46)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 44)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 37)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 31)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 25)
- Thomas Edison (aged 18)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 12)