Explore 1232 historical events from 1860–1869.
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Repres…
The United States Congress established the Indian Peace Commission to seek peace treaties with a number of Native…
The Medicine Lodge Treaty is the overall name for three treaties signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the Federal government of the United States and southern Plains Indian …
The first and second of three treaties were signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the United States federal…
Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. It is observed on the last…
Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Repres…
The United States Congress establishes the nickel
Oliver Fisher Winchester was an American businessman and politician, best known as being the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms
The Battle of Custoza took place on the 24 June 1866 during the Third Italian War of Independence in the Italian unification process.
Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War
Transatlantic telegraph cables are undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean which were used for telegraph communications.
The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland,…
The Grand Duchy of Baden was a German polity on the east bank of the Rhine. It originally existed as a sovereign state from 1806 to 1871 and later as part of the German Empire unti…
The Grand Duchy of Baden announces its withdrawal from the German Confederation and signs a treaty of peace and…
The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a rebellion with a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866, in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence was ignited by politica…
The Memphis Race Riots begin
Peruvians are the citizens of Peru. What is now Peru has been inhabited for several millennia by cultures such as the Caral before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Peruvia…
Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government an…
President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
The 1866 Treaty of Vienna was an agreement signed on 3 October 1866 and ratified on 12 October by the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire that concluded the hostilities of the…
In accordance with the Treaty of Vienna, Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to…
José de Diego y Martínez was a Puerto Rican statesman, journalist, poet, lawyer, and advocate for Puerto Rico's political autonomy in union with Spain and later of Puerto Rican ind…
José de Diego, Puerto Rican journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1918)
Ernest Henry Starling was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology,…
Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (died 1927)
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…
Bedrich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague
The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish republican organisation founded in the United States in 1858 by John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny. It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister o…
The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, but the raids end soon after
The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs…
One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-
The Austro-Prussian War was fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, with each also being aided by various allies within the German Confederation. Pru…
Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgrätz, enabling Prussia to exclude Austria from German affairs.
The Austro-Prussian War was fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, with each also being aided by various allies within the German Confederation. Pru…
Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa: The Austrian Navy, led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian…
Maurice Raoul-Duval was a French polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (died 1916)
Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel sometimes spelled Stillwell-Kuesel was a pioneer American dentist. She was the founder of the Women's Dental Association of the United States, which s…
Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, American pioneer dentist (died 1936)
Thomas Barfoed Thrige was a Danish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessman. In 1894, he started the company Thomas B. Thrige, a manufacturer of electric motors, now known as T-…
Thomas B
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but …
Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (died 1925)
John Joseph O'Connor, also known as Peach Pie, was an American catcher, outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball in the American Association, the National League, and …
Jack O'Connor, American baseball player and manager (died 1937)