Birthdays
Laurence Simmons Baker
Turns 30 on this date
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
Turns 41 on this date
Richard Schell
Turns 50 on this date
Jacob Thompson
Turns 50 on this date
Julia Ann Toombs
Turns 47 on this date
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
Turns 58 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | Albert Hicks, the United States' last pirate, goes on trial for his life in New York city |
05/14/1860 to 05/18/1860 |
| Campaigns/Elections | Controversial nominee for District Attorney of California confirmed in the U.S. Senate on party lines | 05/15/1860 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Garibaldi and his thousand volunteers win their first victory on Sicily at Calatafimi | 05/15/1860 |
| Crime/Disasters | In London, chief cashier of Union Bank sentenced to twenty years for million dollar embezzlement | 05/15/1860 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
Documents
| Diary | Entry by Orville Browning, May 16, 1860 | 05/15/1860 |
| Newspaper | San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “The Great Mistake of the Buchanan’s Administration,” May 15, 1860 | 05/15/1860 |