Explore 854 historical events from 1860–1869.
Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. He was a conservative leade…
Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (died 1934)
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation of television, since his disk was a fundamental co…
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk (died 1940)
Alfred Ploetz was a German physician, biologist, Social Darwinist, and eugenicist known for coining the term racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene), a form of eugenics, and for promoting t…
Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (died 1940)
David Bowman was a Labor politician in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland and Queensland Leader of the Opposition from 1908 to 1912.
David Bowman, Australian lawyer and politician (died 1916)
Jean-Charles Prince was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, teacher, seminary administrator, editor, and Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada from 1852 to 1860.
Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (born 1804)
Sir Charles Barry was an English architect best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for nu…
Charles Barry, English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (born 1795)
Ludwig Bechstein was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales.
Ludwig Bechstein, German author (born 1801)
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck was a German lieutenant general, diplomat and military writer. He wrote several major military-political works and military histories, which wer…
Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (born 1783)
George Montgomery White was an American politician in North Carolina who was a two-term member of the North Carolina House of Commons from Bladen County.
George Montgomery White, American politician (born 1828)
Thomas Addison was an English physician and medical researcher. He is traditionally regarded as one of the "great men" of Guy's Hospital in London.
Thomas Addison, English physician and endocrinologist (born 1793)
Charles Goodyear was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Pat…
Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (born 1800)
André Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetol…
André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (born 1774)
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. H…
Led by Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi, the volunteer Expedition of the Thousand set sail from Genoa on a campaign to
R v Hopley was an 1860 legal case in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. The case concerned the death of 15-year-old Reginald Cancellor at the hands of his teacher, Thomas Hopley. Hopley …
The trial of the Eastbourne manslaughter, which later became an important legal precedent in the United Kingdom for…