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Type	Date Span	Title
Personal	Wed, January 25, 1860	Charles Curtis born in Topeka, Kansas
Lawmaking/Litigating	Wed, January 25, 1860	Entire legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee leave Louisville, Kentucky for Cincinatti, Ohio
Business/Industry	Thu, January 26, 1860	The legislatures of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee meet in convention in Columbus, Ohio
Education/Culture	Thu, January 26, 1860	Cornelius Conway Felton unanimously elected as new President of Harvard University
Lawmaking/Litigating	Fri, January 27, 1860	Thirty-ninth ballot in the election for Speaker sees John Sherman fall behind for the first time
Business/Industry	Fri, January 27, 1860 - Sat, January 28, 1860	The legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee are hosted lavishly in Cincinatti, Ohio
Slavery/Abolition	Sat, January 28, 1860	Porter on steamship sentenced to death in South Carolina for helping escaped slave stow away
Crime/Disasters	Sat, January 28, 1860	Fire destroys Forbestown in Butte County, California almost completely
US/the World	Sun, January 29, 1860	Napoleon III closes down France's leading Catholic newspaper
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, January 29, 1860	The American College is established in Rome under the auspices of Pope Pius IX
Cultural	Sun, January 29, 1860	Anton Chekhov is born in southern Russia
Crime/Disasters	Mon, January 30, 1860	Paper mill burns in Northampton, Massachusetts
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, January 30, 1860	Republicans replace John Sherman with William Pennington in the Speaker's election struggle
Business/Industry	Tue, January 31, 1860	Mississippi Central Railroad completed between Canton, Mississippi and Jackson, Tennessee
Crime/Disasters	Tue, January 31, 1860	American ship burns at Liverpool hours before leaving for New York
Religion/Philosophy	Wed, February 1, 1860	Rabbi gives opening prayer in the House of Representatives for the first time
Legal/Political	Wed, February 1, 1860	Hazlett and Stevens, the last of John Brown's captured co-conspirators, go on trial in Virginia
Legal/Political	Wed, February 1, 1860	Thaddeus Hyatt arrives in Washington but defies the Senate Harpers Ferry Committee
Lawmaking/Litigating	Wed, February 1, 1860	William Pennington of New Jersey elected Speaker of the House on the forty-fourth ballot
Crime/Disasters	Thu, February 2, 1860	New York City tenement fire kills twenty people
Lawmaking/Litigating	Thu, February 2, 1860	Mississippi Legislature kills bill to abolish legal prohibition of import of slaves from Africa
Campaigns/Elections	Thu, February 2, 1860	Republican Salmon P. Chase elected as Senator from Ohio
Crime/Disasters	Fri, February 3, 1860	Seven killed in a boiler explosion in a Brooklyn, New York hat factory
Lawmaking/Litigating	Fri, February 3, 1860	John W. Forney returns as Clerk of the House, this time as a Republican
Lawmaking/Litigating	Fri, February 3, 1860	New federal Agricultural Bureau head sworn in
Business/Industry	Sat, February 4, 1860	Last gap closed in a continuous rail line from Maine to New Orleans
Legal/Political	Sat, February 4, 1860	Aaron Stevens found guilty in Virginia for his part in Harpers Ferry Raid
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, February 4, 1860	Invading Spanish defeat Moroccan forces at their camp near Tetuan
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, February 5, 1860	"Slave auction" at Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Brooklyn church frees nine-year old slave girl
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, February 6, 1860	Invading Spanish troops enter the key Moroccan town of Tetuan