1860 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1860?
- January 2, 1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France
- March 5, 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
- March 17, 1860 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
- April 3, 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.
- April 6, 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—later renamed Community of Christ—is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois
- 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 23, 1860 – The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
- August 3, 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
- August 5, 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
- September 8, 1860 – The Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
- 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 18, 1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
- 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 26, 1860 – 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.
- December 29, 1860 – The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
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