Birthdays
Henry "Box" Brown
Turns 45 on this date
Horace Gray
Turns 32 on this date
John Henry Hubbard
Turns 56 on this date
William Henry Longsdorff
Turns 26 on this date
William Boyer Lupton
Turns 27 on this date
Lambdin Purdy Milligan
Turns 48 on this date
Charles Henry Mytinger
Turns 27 on this date
Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose
Turns 33 on this date
John Wesley Powell
Turns 26 on this date
Events
| Business/Industry | Clipper ship sails from New York to San Francisco in record time | 03/24/1860 |
| Foreign | From Germany, the Grand Duke of Tuscany protests the annexation of his province | 03/24/1860 |
| US/the World | Pro-Western Japanese leader assassinated | 03/24/1860 |
| 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 treaty annexing Savoy and Nice is signed in Turin | 03/24/1860 |
Documents
| Letter | Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Galloway, March 24, 1860 | 03/24/1860 |
| Newspaper | Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “The Charleston Convention,” March 24, 1860 | 03/24/1860 |