Events from the year 1865 in Michigan.
Office holders
State office holders
Governor of Michigan: Henry H. Crapo
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Ebenezer O. Grosvenor
Michigan Attorney General: Albert Williams
Michigan Secretary of State: James B. Porter
Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives: Gilbert E. Read
Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court: George Martin
Mayors of major cities
Mayor of Detroit: Kirkland C. Barker
Mayor of Grand Rapids: Wilder D. Foster
Federal office holders
U.S. Senator from Michigan: Zachariah Chandler (Republican)/Isaac P. Christiancy
U.S. Senator from Michigan: Jacob M. Howard (Republican) House District 1: Fernando C. Beaman (Republican) House District 2: Charles Upson (Republican) House District 3: John W. Longyear (Republican) House District 4: Francis William Kellogg (Republican)/Thomas W. Ferry (Republican) House District 5: Augustus C. Baldwin (Democrat)/Rowland E. Trowbridge (Republican) House District 6: John F. Driggs (Republican)
Population
Chronology of events
January
February
March
March 12 - The Detroit Police Department was formed. The first uniformed officers began patrolling on May 15. March 25 - The Detroit Public Library opened on the second floor of the old Michigan State Capitol building in Detroit.
April
April 9 - Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia, bringing an end to the American Civil War. April 15 - Abraham Lincoln died after being shot one day earlier. April 16 - At the invitation Mayor Barker, an overflow crowd of Detroit residents assembled at City Hall. Resolutions were passed, including one expressing "profound sorrow" and "horror and anguish". April 25 - A parade in Detroit honored Pres. Lincoln.
May
June
July
July - The Upper Peninsula miners' strike of 1865 was put down by a naval detachment from the USS Michigan, using an improvised armored train, and later with an army detachment from Chicago.
August
August 13 - General Ulysses S. Grant visited Detroit.
September
September 12/13 - The Colored Men's Convention met in Detroit.
October
October 17 - The 102nd Regiment United States Colored Troops returned to Detroit and was disbanded.
November
December
Births
March 21 - George Owen Squier, U.S. Army officer and inventor, in Dryden, Michigan April 13 - Grant Fellows, Michigan Attorney General (1913-1917), in Hudson Township, Lenawee County, Michigan June 28 - Frank Scheibeck, Major League Baseball shortstop (1887-1906), in Detroit July 21 - Fred M. Warner, 26th Governor of Michigan (1905-1911), in Hickling, Nottinghamshire November 15 - Jerome H. Remick, music publisher, in Detroit December 1 - Friend Richardson, Governor of California (1923-1927), in Friend's Colony, Michigan Date unknown - Lyster Hoxie Dewey, botanist, in Cambridge Township, Michigan