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Events
April_3 - The Pony_Express makes its first run.
July_2 - Vladivostok, Russia is founded.
July_11 - Mutsuhito becomes Crown_Prince of Japan.
September_7 - ''Lady_Elgin'' is accidentally rammed and sunk in Lake_Michigan, hundreds drown.
October - John_Hanning_Speke and James_Augustus_Grant leave Zanzibar to search for source of the Nile.
to hold that office.
December_29 - The first British seagoing ironclad warship, the HMS ''Warrior'' is launched.
Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia seizes the whole of the Papal States besides Rome (see Vatican_City) and unites Italy.
Robert_Wilhelm_Bunsen discovers caesium and rubidium (see Discovery_of_the_chemical_elements)
Year in topic
1860_in_literature
Mason_Jackson becomes art editor of the ''Illustrated_London_News''.
1860_in_science
1860_in_sports
Willie_Park wins the first British Open golf tournament.
First running of the Queen's_Plate in Toronto,_Ontario, North America's oldest thoroughbred_horse_race.
1860_in_music
Births
January_1 - George_Washington_Carver, educator, activist, botanist
January_11 - Marie_Bashkirtseff, artist
January_25 - Charles_Curtis, American vice-president (+ 1936)
January_29 - William_Jacob_Baer, American painter (+ 1941)
January_29 - Anton_Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (+ 1904)
February_11 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author
February_29 - Herman_Hollerith, inventor of the first electric tabulating machine.
March_13 - Hugo_Wolf, Austrian composer
March_19 - William_Jennings_Bryan, American politician
May_9 - J._M._Barrie, author (+ 1937)
May_25 - James_McKeen_Cattell, first professor of psychology in U.S.
May_29 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer
July_3 - Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman, feminist writer (+ 1935)
July_7 - Gustav_Mahler, composer
July_19 - Lizzie_Borden, murder suspect
September_13 - John_Pershing, American general
December_7 - Joseph_Cook, sixth Prime_Minister_of_Australia (+ 1947)
John_Coughlin, Chicago alderman
Frederick_George_Jackson, British Arctic explorer (+ 1938)
Albert_Giraud, Belgian poet (+ 1929)
Lancelot_Speed, illustrator (+ 1931)
Deaths
January_27 - János_Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
May_12 - Sir Charles_Barry, English architect
May_16 - Anne_Isabella_Milbanke, widow of George_Gordon_Byron,_6th_Baron_Byron.
Heads of State
China - Xianfeng Emperor_of_China, Qing_Dynasty (1850-1861)
Denmark - Frederick VII, King_of_Denmark (1848-1863)
France - Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1852-1870)
Norway - Charles IV, King_of_Sweden and Norway (1859-1872)
Ottoman_Empire - Abd-ul-Mejid, Sultan_of_the_Ottoman_Empire (July_2, 1839 to June_25, 1861)
Prussia - Frederick William IV, King_of_Prussia (1840-1861)
Russia - Alexander II, Tsar_of_Russia (1855-1881)
Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September_29, 1833 to September, 1868)
United_States - James_Buchanan, President_of_the_United_States (1857-1861)
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