Birthdays
Samuel Augustus Bridges
Turns 57 on this date
John Price Clark
Turns 29 on this date
Robert Sanford Foster
Turns 25 on this date
James Morrison Hawes
Turns 35 on this date
John Percival Jones
Turns 30 on this date
William Henry Fitzhugh Payne
Turns 29 on this date
Samuel Allen Rice
Turns 31 on this date
Richard Taylor
Turns 33 on this date
Martin Russell Thayer
Turns 40 on this date
Events
| Foreign | Future Kaiser Wilhelm II born in Berlin | 01/27/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | Speaker of the House Orr and Congressman Hughes of Indiana exchange insults and almost come to blows in the U.S. Capital | 01/27/1859 |
| Slavery/Abolition | The 27th Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society is held in Boston | 01/27/1859 |
| 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, “Sham Retrenchment,” January 27, 1859 | 01/27/1859 |