360What happened in 1865?
3 moments from 1865 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- On this day · 17 May 1865
The International Telegraph Union is founded
On 17 May 1865, 20 European countries founded the International Telegraph Union in Paris, to agree common rules for sending telegrams across borders. Now the International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency, it coordinates radio frequencies and satellite orbits. The date is World Telecommunication Day.
- On this day · 18 December 1865
Slavery is abolished in the United States
On 18 December 1865, the US Secretary of State proclaimed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in force, abolishing slavery throughout the United States. About four million people had been enslaved in the country at the start of the civil war.
- 1865 · from The 1860s: the underground, dynamite and the periodic table
Slavery abolished in the US; Maxwell's equations