1860

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1857 1858 1859 - 1860 - 1861 1862 1863 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* March 6 – Abraham Lincoln speaks against slavery in New Haven, Connecticut\n* April 3 - The Pony Express makes its first run.\n* May 13 – Battle of Catalafim; troops under Giuseppe Garibaldi defeat the army of Naples\n* May 18 – Abraham Lincoln is selected as the US presidential candidate for the Republican party\n* June 24 – First nursing school, based on the ideas of Florence Nightingale, is opened in St. Thomas Infirmary in England\n* July 2 - Vladivostok, Russia is founded.\n*July 11 - Mutsuhito becomes Crown Prince of Japan.\n*July 19 - Ioan Dimitrovich Kasatkin becomes an Eastern Orthodox monk under the name Nikolai.\n*July 24 - Monk Nikolai Kasatkin appointed as deacon.\n*July 25 - Deacon Nikolai Kasatkin appointed as priest.\n* September 7 - Lady Elgin is accidentally rammed and sunk in Lake Michigan, hundreds drown.\n* September 7 – Troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi reach Naples\n* October - John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for source of the Nile.\n* 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\n* October 19 – New Maori revolt begins in New Zealand\n* October 26 – Giuseppe Garibaldi gives Naples to the king Victor Emmanuel II\n* 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.\n* December 29 - The first British seagoing ironclad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched. \n* Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia seizes the whole of the Papal States besides Rome (see Vatican City) and unites Italy.\n* Robert Wilhelm Bunsen discovers caesium and rubidium (see Discovery of the chemical elements)\n* 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

\n*January 1 - George Washington Carver, educator, activist, botanist\n*January 11 - Marie Bashkirtseff, artist\n*January 25 - Charles Curtis, American vice-president (+ 1936)\n*January 29 - William Jacob Baer, American painter (+ 1941)\n*January 29 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (+ 1904)\n*February 11 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author\n*February 29 - Herman Hollerith, inventor of the first electric tabulating machine. \n*March 13 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer\n*March 19 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician\n*May 9 - J. M. Barrie, author (+ 1937)\n*May 25 - James McKeen Cattell, first professor of psychology in U.S.\n*May 29 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer\n*July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist writer (+ 1935)\n*July 7 - Gustav Mahler, composer\n*July 19 - Lizzie Borden, murder suspect\n*September 13 - John Pershing, American general\n*December 7 - Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (+ 1947)\n*John Coughlin, Chicago alderman\n*Frederick George Jackson, British Arctic explorer (+ 1938)\n*Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (+ 1929)\n*Lancelot Speed, illustrator (+ 1931)

Deaths

\n*January 27 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician\n*May 12 - Sir Charles Barry, English architect\n*May 16 - Anne Isabella Milbanke, widow of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n