Birthdays
Eli Metcalfe Bruce
Turns 33 on this date

Horatio Washington Bruce
Turns 31 on this date

Octavius Valentine Catto
Turns 22 on this date

George Richard Crooks
Turns 39 on this date
William Weaver Danenhower
Turns 41 on this date

Roswell Martin Field
Turns 54 on this date

Isabella Beecher Hooker
Turns 39 on this date

Robert Johnson
Turns 27 on this date
Events
Campaigns/Elections | Abraham Lincoln visits Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and from there secretly travels directly to Washington | 02/22/1861 |
Education/Culture | Edward Payson Weston sets off to walk from Boston to Washington DC to pay off an election bet | 02/22/1861 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The Provisional Congress of the Confederate States is sitting in Montgomery, Alabama |
02/09/1861 to 03/15/1861 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 36th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/04/1860 to 03/02/1861 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The Virginia Convention on secession is meeting in Richmond |
02/13/1861 to 05/01/1861 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The Washington Peace Conference is meeting at Willard's Hotel in Washington DC |
02/04/1861 to 02/27/1861 |