Explore 436 historical events from 1860–1869.
Robert Robinson Taylor was an American architect and educator. Taylor was the first African-American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the fi…
Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (died 1942)
Jane Avril was a French can-can dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and a frequent subject of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's art. Extremely thin and "given to jerky movements …
Jane Avril, French model and dancer (died 1943)
Wallace Clement Sabine was an American physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. Sabine was the architectural acoustician of Boston's Symphony Hall, widely consid…
Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic (died 1919)
Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian-American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1923 at the age of 55 for professional opportunities, …
Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
Anna Bernhardine Eckstein was a German champion of world peace, who trained as a teacher and campaigned for peace across the world. She gathered six million signatures on a petitio…
Anna B
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who was the regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar period and most of World War II, from 1 March 1920…
Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (died 1957)
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and played a prominent role in passing the Reform Act 18…
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born
Henry Bennett was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a United States representative from New York from 1849 to 1859.
Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (born 1808)
Kondō Isami was a Japanese swordsman and samurai of the late Edo period. He was the fourth generation master of Tennen Rishin-ryū and was famed for his role as commander of the Sh…
Kondō Isami, Japanese commander (born 1834)
Julius Plücker was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode ra…
Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (born 1801)
Christopher Houston Carson, popularly known as Kit Carson, was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent and U.S. Army officer.
Kit Carson, American general (born 1809)
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the 17th United States secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represe…
James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States (born 1791)
Mihailo Obrenović III was the ruling Prince of Serbia from 1839 to 1842 and again from 1860 to 1868.
Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia (born 1823)
The Boshin War , sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate…
Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards N
The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the United States, was held in the United States Senate and concluded with acquittal on three of eleven charges before ad…
The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson adjourned after the second and third articles of impeachment did not obtain enou
The Navajo are an Indigenous People of the Southwestern United States. The Navajo term for themselves is Diné. Their language is Navajo, a Southern Athabascan language. The states…
The Navajo and the U
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther, was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second…
Albert Günther publishes the first study to recognise that the New Zealand tuatara is not a lizard
Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867.
Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 established the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, which was a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states. The Compromise only …
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungaria
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his death in 1916.…
Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich)
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane…
Wilbur Wright, American inventor (died 1912)
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was a Danish physician and professor of anatomical pathology at the University of Copenhagen. He was the recipient of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiolo…
Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
Giuseppe "the Clutch Hand" Morello, also known as "the Old Fox", was the first boss of the Morello crime family and later top adviser to Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria. He was kn…
Giuseppe Morello, Italian-American mobster (died 1930)
Andy Bowen was an American lightweight boxer best known for fighting the world's longest boxing match, which took place in 1893 against Jack Burke.
Andy Bowen, American boxer (died 1894)