Birthdays

James Williamson Bosler
Turns 27 on this date

Charles Devens
Turns 40 on this date

Dorothea Lynde Dix
Turns 58 on this date

Claiborne Fox Jackson
Turns 54 on this date

Thomas Lincoln
Turns 7 on this date

Robert Byington Mitchell
Turns 37 on this date

Jesse Truesdell Peck
Turns 49 on this date

John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders
Turns 20 on this date

John Wilson Sprague
Turns 43 on this date
Events
Campaigns/Elections | Conservative Republican defeats the official Republican nominee in race for Rhode Island governor | 04/04/1860 |
US/the World | In Arizona, an unauthorized convention meets to form a provisional government |
04/02/1860 to 04/05/1860 |
Education/Culture | In England, George Eliot publishes her new novel | 04/04/1860 |
Foreign | Rebellion in Sicily against the Bourbon throne breaks out in Palermo | 04/04/1860 |
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 |
Documents
Newspaper | Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Wide-Awakes,” April 4, 1860 | 04/04/1860 |