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Months in Year 1860: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 75 of 75

Jan 1st - Slavery ends of in Neth Indies
Jan 20th - Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes
Jan 28th - Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
Jan 29th - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
Feb 1st - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
Feb 3rd - Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
Feb 10th - John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
Feb 13th - King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes
Feb 16th - Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse govt resigns
Feb 22nd - Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time
Feb 22nd - Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages
Feb 27th - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
Mar 5th - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Mar 9th - 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington
Mar 12th - Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
Mar 17th - Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
Mar 21st - US extradition treaty with Sweden
Mar 24th - Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY
Mar 27th - M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
Mar 28th - First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
Mar 29th - Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn," premieres in NYC
Apr 2nd - 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
Apr 3rd - Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif
Apr 6th - Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Apr 7th - Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
Apr 13th - 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento Calif
Apr 14th - 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St Joseph, Mo
Apr 23rd - Dem convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery
Apr 27th - Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
Apr 30th - Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
May 3rd - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
May 6th - SF Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club forms
May 6th - Giuseppe Garibaldi's Mille sets sail from Genoa to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
May 16th - -18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
May 17th - German football club TSV 1860 München is founded
May 18th - Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
May 26th - Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy
Jun 3rd - Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes
Jun 7th - Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF
Jun 7th - 1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens
Jun 9th - 1st "dime" novel issued "Malaesk The Indian Wife of the White Hunter"
Jun 12th - The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
Jun 15th - 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
Jun 23rd - Congress establishes Government Printing Office
Jun 23rd - US Secret Service created
Jun 30th - The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
Jul 9th - Temperature hits 115°F in Ft Scott & 112°F in Topeka Kansas
Jul 19th - 1st railroad reaches Kansas
Jul 25th - 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales)
Aug 3rd - American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
Aug 3rd - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
Aug 5th - Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
Aug 8th - Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
Aug 11th - Nation's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
Aug 30th - 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
Sep 7th - Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan
Sep 8th - Loss of steamer, "Lady Elgin"
Sep 20th - 1st British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)
Sep 21st - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.
Oct 8th - Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
Oct 12th - British & French troops capture Beijing
Oct 13th - 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
Oct 15th - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
Oct 17th - 1st British Golf Open: Willie Park shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club
Oct 17th - 1st pro golf tournament held (Scotland) (Willie Park wins)
Oct 18th - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
Nov 6th - Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th pres
Nov 11th - 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
Dec 17th - Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
Dec 20th - SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede
Dec 24th - Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in NYC
Dec 26th - Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
Dec 26th - Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft Sumter
Dec 26th - The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.
Dec 29th - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 135

Jan 2nd - William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
Jan 7th - Emanuil Mandlov, composer
Jan 8th - Nancy Jones, US black missionary in Africa
Jan 11th - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian/French painter/author (Journal)
Jan 12th - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (d. 1942)
Jan 17th - Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (d. 1949)
Jan 21st - Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
Jan 25th - Charles Curtis, (R) 31st US VP (1929-33)
Jan 29th - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard)
Feb 2nd - Curtis Guild, Jr., 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
Feb 6th - Johan [Eliza J] de Meester, Dutch journalist/writer (Geertje)
Feb 11th - Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus)
Feb 14th - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (d. 1954)
Feb 18th - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustavus Vasa)
Feb 21st - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927)
Feb 21st - Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
Feb 24th - Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
Feb 25th - Menso Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/water colors painter
Feb 25th - William James Ashley, English economic-historian
Feb 29th - Herman Hollerith, inventor (1st electric tabulating machine)
Mar 1st - Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader
Mar 2nd - Susanna M. Salter, American politician (d. 1961)
Mar 3rd - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (d. 1925)
Mar 11th - Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library)
Mar 12th - Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
Mar 13th - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
Mar 19th - William Jennings Bryan, "The Great Commoner" orator/statesman
Mar 22nd - Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
Mar 27th - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
Apr 3rd - Frederik W van Eeden, Dutch utopian writer (Walden)
Apr 6th - René Lalique, French jewel designer
Apr 7th - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
Apr 13th - James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen)
Apr 20th - Charles Gordon Curtis, US attorney/inventor (Curtis Turbine)
Apr 20th - Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch MP (SDAP)
Apr 22nd - Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916)
Apr 26th - Alphonse M A J Ariëns, Dutch pastor
Apr 29th - Lorado Taft, US, sculptor (Black Hawk)
May 2nd - D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist/classicist (On Growth & Form)
May 2nd - Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founder (Zionist movement)
May 3rd - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
May 3rd - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d. 1940)
May 4th - Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
May 9th - James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan)
May 9th - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)
May 15th - Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
May 16th - Herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896)
May 19th - Victor E Orlando, Italy's premier (1917-19)
May 20th - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
May 21st - Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)
May 25th - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
May 27th - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
May 29th - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
May 31st - Walter Richard Sickert Munich, Danish/English painter (The Miner)
Jun 6th - William R Inge, English theologist/Deacon St Paul's Cathedral
Jun 8th - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
Jun 18th - Hugo Loudon, CEO (Royal Dutch Oil [Shell])
Jun 20th - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937)
Jun 24th - Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
Jun 25th - Gustave Charpentier, French composer (opera Louise)
Jun 30th - Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs (1918-20)
Jul 3rd - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist
Jul 3rd - William Wallace, composer
Jul 5th - Robert Bacon, American politician (d. 1919)
Jul 7th - Gustav Mahler, Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan)
Jul 11th - Johannis J van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics)
Jul 16th - Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, linguist/philologist
Jul 19th - Lizzie Borden, murderer, gave her mother forty whacks
Jul 20th - Johannes Walter, German geologist (Denudation of the Wilderness)
Jul 24th - Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
Jul 25th - Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
Jul 26th - Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama)
Jul 28th - Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
Jul 28th - Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
Jul 31st - Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (d. 1940)
Aug 3rd - W. K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
Aug 5th - Joseph Carey Merrick, "Elephant Man"
Aug 7th - Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
Aug 10th - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
Aug 11th - Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson etats de Normandie)
Aug 13th - Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)
Aug 14th - Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938)
Aug 15th - Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)
Aug 15th - Roosje Vos, Dutch union organizer
Aug 15th - Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist (d. 1941)
Aug 16th - Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas)
Aug 16th - Lord Hawke, cricketer (England batsman 1890's, many official posts)
Aug 19th - John Kane, Scottish-born US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait)
Aug 20th - Raymond Poincaré, France, president/PM (1912)
Aug 22nd - Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow Award)
Aug 22nd - Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
Aug 25th - George Fawcett, US actor (Intolerance)
Aug 28th - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [OS]
Aug 30th - Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
Sep 3rd - Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established US credit union movement
Sep 6th - Jane Addams, US, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931)
Sep 7th - Grandma "Anna Maria" Moses, NY, primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket)
Sep 7th - Willem H Nolens, priest/Dutch ambassador to Vatican
Sep 11th - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [NS]
Sep 11th - James Allan, former All Black (d. 1934)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 44 of 44

Jan 5th - St John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male US saint, dies
Jan 12th - Martinus J Niewindt, bishop on Curacao (christened slaves), dies at 63
Jan 13th - William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)
Jan 27th - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)
Jan 30th - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer, dies at 44
Feb 9th - Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63
Feb 20th - Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69
Feb 25th - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)
Mar 6th - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
Mar 25th - James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
Mar 28th - Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73
Apr 16th - Carolina, duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples, dies
May 4th - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer, dies
May 12th - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
May 14th - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
May 21st - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53
May 23rd - Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies
Jun 29th - Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67
Jul 1st - Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
Jul 6th - Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37
Jul 13th - John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69
Aug 11th - James Wilson, politician
Aug 13th - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies
Aug 14th - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
Aug 26th - Friedrich Silcher, composer, dies at 71
Aug 26th - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer, dies at 71
Sep 3rd - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804)
Sep 18th - Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras), dies
Sep 18th - Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies
Sep 21st - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
Sep 25th - Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer, dies at 60
Oct 2nd - Louis Hersent, painter, dies
Oct 6th - Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55
Oct 12th - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73
Oct 24th - Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80
Oct 31st - Johan Nathan, murderer, hanged
Oct 31st - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)
Nov 5th - Carl Binder, composer, dies at 43
Nov 14th - Feliks Ostrowski, composer, dies at 58
Nov 28th - Heinrich FL Rellstab, German music theorist, dies
Dec 2nd - Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
Dec 7th - Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43
Dec 17th - Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777)
Dec 28th - Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57