Explore 1232 historical events from 1860–1869.
Augusto Pestana was a Brazilian engineer and politician. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Pestana moved in the late 1880s to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, where he would b…
Augusto Pestana, Brazilian engineer and politician (died 1934)
Charles Edward Taylor was an American inventor, mechanic and machinist. He built the first aircraft engine used by the Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer, and was a vital contribu…
Charlie Taylor, American engineer and mechanic (died 1956)
Aleksa Šantić was a Herzegovinian Serb poet and writer from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Šantić wrote about the urban culture of his hometown Mostar and Herzegovina, the growing…
Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author (died 1924)
James Connolly was a Scottish-born Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains …
James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish rebel leader (died 1916)
Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the Terra Nova e…
Robert Falcon Scott, English sailor and explorer (died 1912)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that…
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (died 1928)
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…
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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)
Edwin Stephen Goodrich FRS, was an English zoologist, specialising in comparative anatomy, embryology, palaeontology, and evolution. He held the Linacre Chair of Zoology in the U…
Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist and anatomist (died 1946)
George Ellery Hale was an American astrophysicist best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots. He was also a key figure in the planning and construction of several …
George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and journalist (died 1938)
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer. Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast astronomical distances led to a shift in the understanding of the scale and natu…
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer and academic (died 1921)
Princess Victoria was the fourth child and second daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra and the younger sister of King George V.
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (died 1935)
Stefan Anton George was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Hesiod, and Charles Baudelaire. He is also known for his role as leader of…
Stefan George, German poet and translator (died 1933)
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle E…
Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and political officer (died 1926)
Henri Nathansen was a Danish writer and stage director, today best known for the play Indenfor Murene.
Henri Nathansen, Danish director and playwright (died 1944)
Florence Foster Jenkins was an American socialite and amateur coloratura soprano who became known and mocked for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing abilit…
Florence Foster Jenkins, American soprano and educator (died 1944)
Miron Cristea was a Romanian cleric and politician.
Miron Cristea, Romanian cleric and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Romania (died 1939)
Constantine I was King of Greece from 18 March 1913 to 11 June 1917 and again from 19 December 1920 to 27 September 1922. The eldest son of George I of Greece, he succeeded to the …
Constantine I of Greece (died 1923)
Canchupati Venkatarao Venkaswami Rao(4 August 1868 – 12 May 1922), referred as Master C.V.V. in his own handwritten original writings, was an Indian philosopher, yogi, and guru. Ma…
Master C. V. V., Indian philosopher, yogi and guru (died 1922)
Oskar Merikanto was a Finnish composer, music critic, pianist, and organist.
Oskar Merikanto, Finnish pianist and composer (died 1924)