Birthdays
Franklin Lewis Griffith
Turns 38 on this date
Lucius H. Holsey
Turns 24 on this date
John O. Saxton
Turns 33 on this date
Otis Henry Tiffany
Turns 41 on this date
Events
| 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 |
| Battles/Soldiers | The Prussians win the decisive victory of the Prussia-Austria War at the Battle of Königgrätz/Sadowa. | 07/03/1866 |