Birthdays
Solomon Nunes Carvalho
Turns 44 on this date
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Turns 37 on this date
Edmund Storer Janes
Turns 52 on this date
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Turns 68 on this date
Events
| US/the World | Italian nationalists in Florence overthrow the Hapsburg Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany | 04/27/1859 |
| Foreign | Piedmont-Sardinia rejects Austria's call to disarm | 04/27/1859 |
| Religion/Philosophy | Pope Pius IX issues an encyclical calling for prayers for peace among Catholic nations | 04/27/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The trial of Oberlin-Wellington rescuer Charles Langston continues in the federal court in Cleveland, Ohio |
04/19/1859 to 05/09/1859 |