Explore 1232 historical events from 1860–1869.
William Jackson Hooker was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as…
William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (born 1785)
Johann Franz Encke was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the Earth to the S…
Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (born 1791)
Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotia-born judge, author, novelist, and Conservative MP in Britain. He was the first internationally bestselling fiction author from what is …
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (born 1796)
George Andrew Atzerodt was a German American repairman, Confederate sympathizer, and conspirator in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. He was assigned to assassin…
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: execution of convicted conspirators
James Barry was a military surgeon in the British Army. Originally from the city of Cork in Ireland, Barry obtained a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh Medical School…
James Barry, English soldier and surgeon (born 1799)
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian medical doctor and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures and was described as the "saviour of mothe…
Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (born 1818)
Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made numerous major contributions to algebra, classical mechanics, and optics. His theoretical …
William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1805)
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière was a 19th-century French general.
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (born 1806)
Christian Julius de Meza was the commander of the Danish Army during the 1864 Second Schleswig War. De Meza was responsible for the withdrawal of the Danish army from the Danevirke…
Christian de Meza, Danish general (born 1792)
Samuel David Luzzatto, also known by the Hebrew acronym Shadal, was an Italian-Austrian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.
Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (born 1800)
Samuel "Champ" Ferguson was a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War. He claimed to have killed over 100 Union soldiers and pro-Union civilians. He was arrested, tried…
Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla leader (born 1821)
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, known as Lord Palmerston, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and f…
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born…
The United States Army is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is designated as the army of the United States in the United States Constitution. As a part …
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It…
The International Telecommunication Union, which standardizes and regulates international radio and telecommunications,
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: General Edmund Kirby Smith negotiated the surrender of his army, the only significant Confederate Ar
Brigadier-General Stand Watie, also known as Standhope Uwatie and Isaac S. Watie, was a Cherokee politician who served as the second principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 186…
Stand Watie became the last Confederate general of the American Civil War to surrender to Union forces
The first ascent of the Matterhorn was a mountaineering expedition of the Matterhorn made by Edward Whymper, Lord Francis Douglas, Charles Hudson, Douglas Hadow, Michel Croz, and t…
A seven-man mountaineering team made the first ascent of the Matterhorn, marking the end of the golden age of alpinism.
Crescent City is the only incorporated city in Del Norte County, California, United States, of which it is also the county seat. The city is on the North Coast of California and ha…
Off the coast of Crescent City, California, the steamer Brother Jonathan struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing…
The Morant Bay Rebellion began with a protest march to the courthouse in Morant Bay, Jamaica, by hundreds of people led by preacher Paul Bogle. Some were armed with sticks and ston…
The Morant Bay rebellion, led by Paul Bogle and George William Gordon, began in Jamaica; after protestors burned down…
The Battle of Plymouth was an engagement during the American Civil War that was fought from April 17 through April 20, 1864, in Washington County, North Carolina.
American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina
The Battle of Dybbøl was the key battle of the Second Schleswig War, fought between Denmark and Prussia. The battle was fought on the morning of 18 April 1864, following a siege th…
Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig
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…
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A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper, which originated in the la…
The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co
The Ionian Islands are a group of islands in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese, but the group includes many smaller islands in ad…
The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece