Birthdays
Benjamin Markley Boyer
Turns 36 on this date
Alonzo Barton Cornell
Turns 27 on this date
Charles Wesley Neff
Turns 21 on this date
Robert Henry Pattison
Turns 35 on this date
Edward Warren
Turns 31 on this date
Morton Smith Wilkinson
Turns 40 on this date
Albert Shelby Willis
Turns 16 on this date
Events
| Education/Culture | Brahms' First Piano Concerto premieres at Hanover in northern Germany | 01/22/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 35th U.S. Congress is sitting between early January and early March, 1859 |
01/05/1859 to 03/02/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “Another Grand Scheme of Annexation,” January 22, 1859 | 01/22/1859 |