Birthdays
Napoleon Bonaparte Buford
Turns 54 on this date
Salmon Portland Chase
Turns 53 on this date
Wesley Cochran
Turns 47 on this date
William Henry French
Turns 46 on this date
Joseph Eldridge Hamblin
Turns 33 on this date
Humphrey Marshall
Turns 49 on this date
Ernestine Louise Polowsky Rose
Turns 51 on this date
Edward Stout
Turns 40 on this date
Events
| US/the World | Don Carlos, pretender to Spain's throne, and his wife die within hours of each other of scarlet fever |
01/12/1861 to 01/13/1861 |
| Education/Culture | In New York, famous horse-tamer John S. Rarey demonstrates his skills to packed Broadway crowds | 01/13/1861 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Mississippi militia at Vicksburg fire warning shots across bows of Cincinnati to New Orleans riverboat | 01/13/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 36th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/04/1860 to 03/02/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | Washington pays Governor Pickens what he is owed, from the newly seized Charleston Sub-Treasury | 01/13/1861 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “Helper’s Lecture to Come Off,” January 13, 1861 | 01/13/1861 |