1860 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1860?
- January 1, 1860 – First Polish stamp is issued.
- January 2, 1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France
- February 27, 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
- March 17, 1860 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
- March 24, 1860 – Sakuradamon incident (1860): Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke
- April 3, 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.
- April 9, 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
- May 3, 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- May 18, 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
- May 27, 1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
- June 12, 1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
- June 30, 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
- August 5, 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
- September 20, 1860 – The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
- September 21, 1860 – In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
- September 30, 1860 – Britain’s first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
- October 10, 1860 – The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
- October 17, 1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
- October 26, 1860 – Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
- December 20, 1860 – South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
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