Birthdays
Samuel Lewis Casey
Turns 45 on this date
Alexander Gilmore Cattell
Turns 50 on this date
Peter Cooper
Turns 75 on this date
James Johnson
Turns 55 on this date
Robert Ransom Jr.
Turns 38 on this date
Charles Carroll Walcutt
Turns 28 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | Months of sometimes violent volcanic activity are striking the Greek Island of Santorini |
01/19/1866 to 02/20/1866 |
| Campaigns/Elections | On Abraham Lincoln's birthday, historian George Bancroft delivers a memorial oration before Congress | 02/12/1866 |
| Legal/Political | The first session of the 39th Congress is sitting in Washington DC from early January to late July, 1866 |
01/07/1866 to 07/27/1866 |