1860

Years: 1857 1858 1859 - 1860 - 1861 1862 1863
Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1860 in art 1860 in literature 1860 in music 1860 in science 1860 in sports List of state leaders in 1860 List of religious leaders in 1860

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

March 6 – Abraham Lincoln speaks against slavery in New Haven, Connecticut
April 3 - The Pony Express makes its first run.
May 13 – Battle of Catalafim; troops under Giuseppe Garibaldi defeat the army of Naples
May 18 – Abraham Lincoln is selected as the US presidential candidate for the Republican party
June 24 – First nursing school, based on the ideas of Florence Nightingale, is opened in St. Thomas Infirmary in England
July 2 - Vladivostok, Russia is founded.
July 11 - Mutsuhito becomes Crown Prince of Japan.
July 19 - Ioan Dimitrovich Kasatkin becomes an Eastern Orthodox monk under the name Nikolai.
July 24 - Monk Nikolai Kasatkin appointed as deacon.
July 25 - Deacon Nikolai Kasatkin appointed as priest.
September 7 - Lady Elgin is accidentally rammed and sunk in Lake Michigan, hundreds drown.
September 7 – Troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi reach Naples
October - John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for source of the Nile.
October 5 – Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate causes of clashes between Maronites and Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year
October 19 – New Maori revolt begins in New Zealand
October 26 – Giuseppe Garibaldi gives Naples to the king Victor Emmanuel II
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)
Buenos Aires leader Bartolome Mitre subverts Argentine Confederation and begins to establish a new centralist government with the help of Uruguayan Colorado party leader Venancio Flores

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 1 - Joe Natus, musician
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 Albéniz, 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 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
May 12 - Sir Charles Barry, English architect
May 16 - Anne Isabella Milbanke, widow of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.