Notable Historical Events - 1860
1860 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Slavery ends of in Neth Indies |
Jan 20 |
Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes |
Jan 28 |
Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua |
Jan 29 |
American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX |
Feb 1 |
1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC |
Feb 3 |
Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture |
Feb 10 |
John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres |
Feb 13 |
King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes |
Feb 16 |
Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns |
Feb 22 |
Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time |
Feb 22 |
Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages |
Feb 27 |
Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency. |
Mar 5 |
Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. |
Mar 9 |
1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington |
Mar 12 |
Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists |
Mar 17 |
Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic] |
Mar 21 |
US extradition treaty with Sweden |
Mar 24 |
Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY |
Mar 27 |
M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew) |
Mar 28 |
First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins (New Zealand). |
Mar 29 |
Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in NYC |
Apr 2 |
1st Italian Parliament met at Turin |
Apr 3 |
Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif |
Apr 6 |
Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr. |
Apr 7 |
Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe |
Apr 13 |
1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento Calif |
Apr 14 |
1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St Joseph, Mo |
Apr 23 |
Dem convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery |
Apr 27 |
Thomas Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry |
Apr 30 |
Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby) |
May 3 |
Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden. |
May 6 |
SF Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club forms |
May 6 |
Giuseppe Garibaldi's Mille sets sail from Genoa to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. |
May 16 |
-18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate |
May 17 |
German football club TSV 1860 München is founded |
May 18 |
Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president |
May 26 |
Giuseppe Garibaldi occupies Palermo, Italy |
Jun 3 |
Comanche, Iowa, completely destroyed by one of a series of tornadoes |
Jun 7 |
Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF |
Jun 9 |
1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens |
Jun 12 |
The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established. |
Jun 15 |
1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin) |
Jun 23 |
Congress establishes Government Printing Office |
Jun 30 |
The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. |
Jul 9 |
Temperature hits 115°F in Ft Scott & 112°F in Topeka Kansas |
Jul 19 |
1st railroad reaches Kansas |
Jul 25 |
1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales) |
Aug 3 |
American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY |
Aug 3 |
The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand. |
Aug 5 |
Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim. |
Aug 8 |
Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC |
Aug 11 |
US's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev) |
Aug 30 |
1st British tram opens (Birkenhead) |
Sep 7 |
Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan |
Sep 8 |
Loss of steamer, "Lady Elgin" |
Sep 20 |
First British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) |
Sep 21 |
In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao. |
Oct 8 |
Telegraph line between LA & SF opens |
Oct 12 |
British & French troops capture Beijing |
Oct 13 |
1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston |
Oct 15 |
11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard |
Oct 17 |
1st British Golf Open: Willie Park Snr shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club, Scotland |
Oct 18 |
The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty. |
Nov 6 |
Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President |
Dec 17 |
Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County |
Dec 20 |
South Carolina secedes from the Union (US Civil War) |
Dec 24 |
Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle" premieres in NYC |
Dec 26 |
Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt) |
Dec 26 |
Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft Sumter |
Dec 26 |
The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England. |
Dec 28 |
Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn NY, on her last mission to free slaves, evading capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad |
Dec 29 |
The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched. |
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