April 15 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1865
Lincoln dies
At 7:22 on a Saturday morning, Abraham Lincoln dies in a boarding house across from Ford's Theatre, nine hours after John Wilkes Booth's bullet. Secretary of War Stanton murmurs, Now he belongs to the ages. The man who saved the Union and freed the slaves is gone; the church bells of London toll in mourning.
1892
General Electric is founded
In Schenectady, New York, the Edison General Electric Company merges with Thomson-Houston to form the General Electric Company. Edison's inventions now have an industrial empire behind them. GE will light the twentieth century.