Eighty-one free blacks sailed from New Orleans on this day for a new life in Haiti as immigrants, the latest in a small surge of African-Americans who had taken up the offers coming from Haitian President Geffrard.  American colonization advocates, especially James Redpath, encouraged these approaches and helped organise the movement of hundreds of American free blacks to Haiti between 1859 and 1862.  (By John Osborne)

Count Cavour had resigned as prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia six months before over the terms of the treaty ending the war between France and Austria.  When King Victor Emmanuel recalled him, Cavour immediately set about to negotiate with the French, notably exchanging Savoy and Nice for freedom to annex Tuscany and Emilia to the emerging united Italian state.  (By John Osborne)