In history, year 1860 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1860.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 17 march | The First Taranaki War began at Waitara, New Zealand, markingan important phase of the New Zealand land wars. |
| 24 march | Ronin samurai of the Mito Domain assassinated Japanese Chief Minister Ii Naosuke, upset with his role in the opening of Japan to foreign powers. |
| 03 april | The Pony Express, a mail service that became the most directmeans of long distance communication to the American West, beganoperation. |
| 09 april | On his phonograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville made the oldest known recording of an audible human voice,when he recorded himself singing 'Au clair de la lune'. |
| 05 may | Led by Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi, the volunteer Expedition of the Thousand set sail from Genoa on a campaign to conquerthe Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. |
| 30 june | Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England. |
| 21 september | Second Opium War-Anglo-French forces earned a decisive victory against Qing dynasty troops in the Battle of Palikao, allowing them tocapture Beijing. |
| 20 december | South Carolina became the first of eleven slave states to secede from the United States, leading to the eventual creation of the Confederate States of America and later the American Civil War. |
| 29 december | To counter the French Navy's La Gloire, the world's first ironclad warship, the British Royal Navy launched the world's first iron-hulled armored battleship, HMS Warrior. |
| 06 November | Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of America. |
| 04 December | Agustino Lawrenceo of Margao, Goa, received a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Paris. He became the first Indian to pursue a doctorate from a foreign university. |
| 16 December | Powell Napco, one of the scientists who invented TV, was born. |
| 19 December | Lord Dalhousie, who was the Governor General of India from 1848 to 1856, died in Britain. |
| 29 February | The table machine was invented by Herman Hollerith. |
| 09 March | Japan appointed its ambassador to the US for the first time. |
| 09 April | For the first time, the voice of man was notated. |
| 10 January | The Pemberton Mill collapse in Lawrence Massachusetts, United States, killed 146 workers. |
| 03 February | Thomas Claasen took over as the first US Superintendent of Agriculture. |
| 09 March | The first Japanese embassy in the United States was established in San Francisco. |
| 02 April | The first Italian Parliament meeting began in Turin. |
| 18 May | Abraham Lincoln was elected as the US presidential candidate for the Republican Party. |
| 30 June | A historical debate about development was held at the Oxford University Museum. |
| 19 July | The first railway was extended to Kansas. |
| 03 August | The Second Maori War was launched in New Zealand. |
| 08 September | The loss of the paddle steamer "Lady Elgin" on Lake Michigan submerged about 300 people. |
| 08 October | Telegraph line launched between L&SF. |
| 20 December | South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States Union. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 January | Michele Lega / Cardinal / Italy |
| 01 January | Jan Vilímek / Painter / Czech Republic |
| 02 January | Dugald Campbell Patterson / Engineer / Canada |
| 03 July | Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Author / United States of America |
| 04 June | Alexis Lapointe / Runner / Canada |
| 06 April | René Lalique / Sculptor / France |
| 07 August | Alan Leo / Author / United Kingdom |
| 07 December | Joseph Cook / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 11 February | Rachilde / Author / France |
| 13 December | Lucien Guitry / Actor / France |
| 14 September | Hamlin Garland / Poet / United States of America |
| 15 August | Henrietta Vinton Davis / Actress / United States of America |
| 16 August | Jules Laforgue / Poet / France |
| 18 November | Ignacy Jan Paderewski / Pianist / Poland |
| 22 August | Alfred Ploetz / Physician / Germany |
| 25 January | Charles Curtis / Politician / United States of America |
| 25 May | James McKeen Cattell / Academic / United States of America |
| 27 May | Manuel Teixeira Gomes / Politician / Portugal |
| 31 October | Juliette Gordon Low / Scout Leader / United States of America |
| 31 July | Mary Vaux Walcott / Painter / United States of America |