1860
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Events
- April 3 - The Pony Express makes its first run.
- July 2 - Vladivostok, Russia is founded.
- July 11 - Mutsuhito becomes Crown Prince of Japan.
- September 7 - Lady Elgin is accidentally rammed and sunk in Lake Michigan, hundreds drown.
- October - John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for source of the Nile.
- November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
- December 29 - The first British seagoing ironclad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched.
- Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia seizes the whole of the Papal States besides Rome (see Vatican City) and unites Italy.
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen discovers caesium and rubidium (see Discovery of the chemical elements)
Year in topic
- 1860 in literature
- Mason Jackson becomes art editor of the Illustrated London News.
- 1860 in science
- 1860 in sports
- Willie Park wins the first British Open golf tournament.
- First running of the Queen's Plate in Toronto, Ontario, North America's oldest thoroughbred horse race.
- 1860 in music
Births
- January 1 - George Washington Carver, educator, activist, botanist
- January 11 - Marie Bashkirtseff, artist
- January 25 - Charles Curtis, American vice-president (+ 1936)
- January 29 - William Jacob Baer, American painter (+ 1941)
- January 29 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (+ 1904)
- February 11 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author
- February 29 - Herman Hollerith, inventor of the first electric tabulating machine.
- March 13 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer
- March 19 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician
- May 9 - J. M. Barrie, author (+ 1937)
- May 25 - James McKeen Cattell, first professor of psychology in U.S.
- May 29 - Isaac Albeniz, Spanish composer
- July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist writer (+ 1935)
- July 7 - Gustav Mahler, composer
- July 19 - Lizzie Borden, murder suspect
- September 13 - John Pershing, American general
- December 7 - Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (+ 1947)
- John Coughlin, Chicago alderman
- Frederick George Jackson, British Arctic explorer (+ 1938)
- Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (+ 1929)
- Lancelot Speed, illustrator (+ 1931)
Deaths
- January 27 - Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
- May 12 - Sir Charles Barry, English architect
- May 16 - Anne Isabella Milbanke, widow of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.
heads of State
- China - Xianfeng Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1850-1861)
- Denmark - Frederick VII, King of Denmark (1848-1863)
- France - Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1852-1870)
- Norway - Charles IV, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-1872)
- Ottoman Empire - Abd-ul-Mejid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (July 2, 1839 to June 25, 1861)
- Prussia - Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1840-1861)
- Russia - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1855-1881)
- Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
- United States - James Buchanan, President of the United States (1857-1861)