Explore 436 historical events from 1860–1869.
Robina Nicol was a Scottish-born New Zealand photographer and suffragist.
Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (died 1942)
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem was a French theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and the theory of elasticity. Duhem was also a pr…
Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (died 1916)
Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann was a prominent Baltic German chemist-physicist who made important contributions in the fields of glassy and solid solutions, heterogeneous e…
Gustav Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (died 1938)
Sir Alexander James Peacock was an Australian politician who served as the 20th Premier of Victoria.
Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (died 1933)
Louis Rogers "Pete" Browning, nicknamed "Gladiator" and "the Louisville Slugger", was an American professional baseball center fielder and left fielder. He played in Major League B…
Pete Browning, American baseball player (died 1905)
Major General Omar Bundy was a career United States Army officer who was a veteran of the American Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War, Pancho Villa Expediti…
Omar Bundy, American general (died 1940)
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Fro…
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (died 1928)
William Attewell was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and England. Attewell was a medium pace bowler who was renowned for his extraordinary accuracy a…
William Attewell, English cricketer and umpire (died 1927)
Gustave Émile Haug was a French geologist and paleontologist known for his contribution to the geosyncline theory.
Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (died 1927)
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly …
José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (died 1896)
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. H…
Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947)
Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, known as Ernst von Lasaulx was a German philologist and politician.
Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (born 1805)
John Stevens Henslow was an English Anglican priest, botanist and geologist. He is best remembered as friend and mentor to Charles Darwin.
John Stevens Henslow, British priest, geologist and doctoral advisor to Charles Darwin (born 1796)
Thornsbury Bailey Brown of Taylor County, Virginia, is generally considered the first Union soldier killed by a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. Brown, a member o…
Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (born 1829)
Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth was a United States Army officer, close personal friend of the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, and law clerk who was the first conspicu…
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John Quincy Marr was a Virginia militia company captain and the first Confederate States Army soldier killed by a Union army soldier in combat during the American Civil War. Marr w…
John Quincy Marr, American captain (born 1825)
Henry Gray was an English anatomist and surgeon most notable for publishing the book Gray's Anatomy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the age of 25.
Henry Gray, English anatomist and surgeon (born 1827)
Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A Democrat, he served in the United States Senate for fourteen years and defeated Abraham Lincoln to win…
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Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, Isolabella and Leri, generally known as the Count of Cavour or simply Cavour, was an Italian politician, statesman, businessman…
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (born 1810)
Patrick Brontë was an Irish Anglican clergyman and author who spent most of his adult life in England. One of ten children from a very poor family, he managed to secure a scholarsh…
Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (born 1777)
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
The first bloodshed of the American Civil War took place when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked
The Battle of Fairfax Court House was the first land engagement of the American Civil War with fatal casualties. On June 1, 1861, a Union scouting party clashed with the local mili…
The first land battle of the American Civil War after Fort Sumter took place in the village of Fairfax, Virginia
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: The Confederate Army only suffered eight casualties in its victory at the Battle of Big Bethel in Yo
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: The Battle of Vienna, Virginia, took place, which involved one of the world's first military movemen