Explore 854 historical events from 1860–1869.
The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was a naval and land engagement of the American Civil War in which a Union fleet commanded by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, assisted b…
American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a…
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: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg,…
Bakumatsu were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended. Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolatio…
Bakumatsu: Kinmon incident: The Chōshū Domain attempts to expel the Satsuma and Aizu Domains from Japan's imperial…
The Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, more commonly referred to as the First Geneva Convention or Geneva Convention…
Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
Walther Hermann Nernst was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Ner…
Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
Frederick Bligh Bond, was an English architect, illustrator, archaeologist, psychical researcher and member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.
Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect and archaeologist (died 1945)
Stephan Krehl was a German composer, teacher, and theoretician. His writings include Traité général de la musique and Théorie de la musique et de science de la composition. His pup…
Stephan Krehl, German composer (died 1924)
Sir Austin Chapman was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1901 until his death in 1926. He held ministerial office in the governments of Alfre…
Austin Chapman, Australian businessman and politician, 4th Australian Minister for Defence (died 1926)
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 Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on…
Anna Maria Jarvis was the founder of Mother's Day in the United States. Her mother had frequently expressed a desire to establish such a holiday, and after her mother's death, Jarv…
Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (died 1948)
Dr. Dwight Bryant Waldo was the first President of Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Waldo was born in Arcade, N.Y. but spent his childhood in Plainwell, Mi…
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John Jacob Astor IV was an American business magnate, real estate developer, and investor who was a member of the Astor family and also the Livingston family. A writer, as well as …
John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel and businessman (died 1912)
Dame Mary Susan Etherington, known professionally as Marie Tempest, was an English singer and actress.
Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (died 1942)
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, PC was a British politician. A strong speaker, he became popular in trade union circles for his denunciation of capitalism as unethical and hi…
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1937)
Fiammetta Wilson was a British astronomer elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1916.
Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer (died 1920)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously after he ha…
Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1931)
Ruggero Oddi was an Italian physiologist and anatomist who was a native of Perugia. He is most well known for the sphincter of Oddi, which was named after him.
Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (died 1913)
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes, is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the devel…
Frank Wedekind, German actor and playwright (died 1918)
Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis was a Scottish medical doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the first woman to hold the Serbian Or…
Elsie Inglis, Scottish surgeon and suffragette (died 1917)
Apolinario Mabini y Maranán was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Governm…
Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (died 1903)
Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos was a Cretan Greek statesman and prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. As the leader of the Liberal Party, Venizelos served as …
Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek lawyer, jurist, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1936)
Otto Ludwig Hermann Weingärtner was a German gymnast.
Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (died 1919)
Juris Alunāns was a Latvian writer and philologist in the Russian Empire. He was one of the first contributors of the Latvian language. He was one of the members of the Young Latvi…
Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (born 1832)
John Benjamin Cocke was an American lawyer who served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding the 39th Arkansas Infantry Regiment in the Trans-Mississippi Th…
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