Explore 854 historical events from 1860–1869.
Joseph Méry was a French writer, journalist, novelist, poet, playwright and librettist.
Joseph Méry, French poet and author (born 1798)
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901. She and her prince consort, Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, became the ancestors of many members of European royalty.
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1864)
Alexander von Nordmann was a Finnish biologist, who contributed to zoology, parasitology, botany and paleontology.
Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist (born 1803)
Winfield Scott was an American military commander and a presidential candidate. He served as Commanding General of the United States Army from 1841 to 1861, and was a veteran of th…
Winfield Scott, American general, lawyer, and politician (born 1786)
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was a German mathematician who made profound contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry. In the field of real analysis, he…
Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician and academic (born 1826)
John Ross was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866; he served longer in that position than any other person. Ross led the nation through such tumultuous eve…
John Ross, American tribal chief (born 1790)
Gábor Klauzál de Szlavovicz was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in the first government of…
Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (born 1804)
John Mason Neale was an English Anglican priest, scholar, and hymnwriter. He worked on and wrote a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Wester…
John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (born 1818)
Max Bruch was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple …
German composer Max Bruch (pictured) conducted the premiere of his first violin concerto, which later became his most fa
The Shield nickel was the first United States five-cent piece to be made out of copper-nickel, the same alloy of which American nickels are struck today. Designed by James B. Longa…
The United States Congress authorized the minting of the Shield nickel (example pictured), the country's first five-cent
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revi…
Bedřich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride (cover of score pictured) premiered in Prague
Lavinia Ellen "Vinnie" Ream Hoxie was an American sculptor. Her most famous work is the statue of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the United States Capitol rotunda. Ream's Statue…
Aged 18, Vinnie Ream became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a United States government commission for a…
The Army of the Potomac was the primary field army of the Union army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. It was created in July 1861 shortly after the First Battle of…
The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security. It is tasked with conducting criminal investigations a…
The United States Secret Service begins operation.
Y Wladfa, also occasionally Y Wladychfa Gymreig, refers to the establishment of settlements by Welsh colonists and immigrants in the Argentine Patagonia, beginning in 1865, mainly …
Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
A narrow-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge narrower than 1,435 mm standard gauge. Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm and 1,067 mm.
The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister was an English surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare. Lister revolutionis…
Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs the first antiseptic surgery.
General Sir Henry George Chauvel, was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the Middle Eastern th…
Harry Chauvel, Australian general (died 1945)
Julia Ledóchowska, USAHJ, in religion Maria Ursula of Jesus, was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.
Ursula Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of J
Angelo Secchi was an Italian Catholic priest and astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia. He was director of the observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University for 28 year…
Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'
The Union is a term used to refer to the central government and loyal states of the United States during the American Civil War. Its military forces and civilian population resiste…
Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia
Ali Agha Ismail Agha oghlu Shikhlinski ; 3 March [O.S. 15 March] 1863 – 18 August 1943) was an Azerbaijani lieutenant-general of the Imperial Russian Army, Deputy Minister of Defen…
Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (died 1943)
Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of th…
Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (died 1931)
Max Heinrich Hermann Reinhardt Nettlau was a German anarchist and historian.
Max Nettlau, German historian and academic (died 1944)