Birthdays

Henry Bowen Anthony
Turns 45 on this date

Simon Bolivar Buckner
Turns 37 on this date

James Smith Colwell
Turns 47 on this date

John Egbert Farnum
Turns 36 on this date

Jeremiah Haralson
Turns 14 on this date

James Wilson Troxell
Turns 29 on this date
James Williams
Turns 35 on this date

Richard Wootton
Turns 25 on this date

Theodore George Wormley
Turns 34 on this date
Events
Foreign | King Victor-Emmanuel of Piedmont-Sardinia explains the transfer of Nice and Savoy to France | 04/01/1860 |
Religion/Philosophy | Palm Sunday | 04/01/1860 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
US/the World | The first Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States hosted in San Francisco |
03/31/1860 to 04/06/1860 |
Cultural | The purportedly oldest man in the United States dies in California aged one hundred and twenty | 04/01/1860 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Herald, “Seward’s Opinion on the Mexican Business,” April 1, 1860 | 04/01/1860 |