1860
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1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday.
| 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 List of state leaders in 1860 | |
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Events
March
- March 6 - Abraham Lincoln speaks against slavery in New Haven, Connecticut
April
- April 3 - The Pony Express makes its first run.
May
- May 9 - The Constitutional Union Party holds its convention and nominates John Bell for President of the United States.
- 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
- June 24 - First nursing school, based on the ideas of Florence Nightingale, is opened in St. Thomas Infirmary in England.
July
- 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
- 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
- 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
- December 29 - The first British seagoing ironclad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched.
Unknown Dates
- 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
- Augustana College is founded in Rock Island, Illinois, United States by Swedish immigrants.
Births
January
- 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
- February 11 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author
- February 29 - Herman Hollerith, inventor of the first electric tabulating machine.
March
- March 1 - Joe Natus, musician
- March 13 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer
- March 19 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician
May
- 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
- July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist writer († 1935)
- July 7 - Gustav Mahler, composer
- July 19 - Lizzie Borden, murder suspect
September
- September 13 - John J. Pershing, American General
November
- November 6 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1941)
- November 23 - Billy the Kid
December
- 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
- January 27 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
- January 27 - Thomas Brisbane, astronomer
- January 29 - Stephanie de Beauharnais , former Grand Duchess of Baden.
February
- February 20 - Henry Drummond, Canadian poet
March
- March 17 - Anna Jameson, German author
May
- May 12 - Sir Charles Barry, English architect
- May 16 - Anne Isabella Milbanke, widow of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.
July
- July 1 - Charles Goodyear, inventor of the vulcanization process
December
- December 14 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th earl of Aberdeen.
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