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Paraguayan president Francisco Solano Lopez initiates a five-year conflict known as the South American War of the Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Much of the Paraguayan army is destroyed, and Lopez is killed. Paraguay loses territory and approximately one-half its male population in the war.
9 April General Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate army to U.S. general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the Civil War.
14 April Lincoln is assassinated in Washington by John Wilkes Booth; Andrew Johnson becomes the new president.
18 December The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, ending slavery in the United States.
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