Birthdays
Lemuel Jackson Bowden
Turns 47 on this date
Charles Henry Davis
Turns 55 on this date
Henry Wager Halleck
Turns 47 on this date
Robert Roberts Hitt
Turns 28 on this date
Thomas Edwin Massey
Turns 40 on this date
William Alexander Richardson
Turns 51 on this date
James Phillip Sims
Turns 25 on this date
John Palmer Usher
Turns 46 on this date
James David Watters
Turns 28 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | In northern England, salmon poachers kill a "water-watcher" | 01/16/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Wheeling, the elected West Virginia convention is meeting to write a constitution for the new state |
11/26/1861 to 02/18/1862 |
| Crime/Disasters | The Hartley Colliery disaster in north-east England kills more than two hundred British coal miners | 01/16/1862 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
12/03/1861 to 07/16/1862 |
Documents
| Military record | Colonel James A. Garfield to the Citizens of the Big Sandy Valley, Kentucky, January 16, 1862 | 01/16/1862 |