Explore 319 historical events from 1860–1869.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Confederate forces led by General E
The Vicksburg campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War directed against Vicksburg, Mississippi, a fortress city that dominate…
American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run down
The French Foreign Legion is a corps of the French Army created to allow foreign nationals into French service. The Legion was founded in 1831 and today consists of several special…
A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia
An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia, 37th Cong., Sess. 2, ch. 54, 12 Stat. 376, known colloquially as the District of Col…
American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Colu
The Battle of Plymouth was an engagement during the American Civil War that was fought from April 17 through April 20, 1864, in Washington County, North Carolina.
American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina
The Battle of Dybbøl was the key battle of the Second Schleswig War, fought between Denmark and Prussia. The battle was fought on the morning of 18 April 1864, following a siege th…
Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mount…
The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States; Virginia later becomes the eighth s
Angelo Secchi was an Italian Catholic priest and astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia. He was director of the observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University for 28 year…
Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'
Morelos, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Morelos, is a landlocked state located in south-central Mexico. It is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities o…
Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico
The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail company chartered by U.S. Congress in 1862 to build a railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California, to complete most of the western…
Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the first transcontinental railroad lay ten miles
The Naval Battle of Hakodate was fought from 4 to 10 May 1869, between the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate navy, consolidated into the armed forces of the rebel Ezo Republic, a…
The four-day Naval Battle of Hakodate begins
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in …
Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hans Poelzig was a German architect, painter and set designer.
Hans Poelzig, German architect, designed the IG Farben Building and Großes Schauspielhaus (died 1936)
Don Fabián de la Rosa y Cueto was a Filipino painter. He was the uncle and mentor to the Philippines' national artist in painting, Fernando Amorsolo, and to his brother Pablo. He i…
Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (died 1937)
Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), very …
Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor (died 1949)
America's first transcontinental railroad was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at …
The First transcontinental railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, U
Junnosuke Inoue was a Japanese financier and statesman of the Taisho and Showa eras. He was the 9th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), and Minister of Finance in 1923-1…
Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (died 1932)
Archibald Adam Warden was a British tennis player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Archibald Warden, English tennis player (died 1943)
Carl August Berthold Schuhmann was a German athlete who won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, becoming the most successful athl…
Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, wrestler, and weightlifter (died 1946)
Mehmet Emin Yurdakul was a Turkish nationalist writer, poet and politician. Being an ideologue of Pan-Turkism, his writings and poems had a major impact on defining the term vatan …
Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish writer (died 1944)
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron was a British merchant seaman and a seagoing officer for the Cunard Line. He is best known as the captain of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia, when she rescue…
Arthur Rostron, English mariner, captain of the rescue ship Carpathia during the Titanic disaster (died 1940)
Paul Probst was a Swiss sport shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won a gold …
Paul Probst, Swiss target shooter (died 1945)
John Storey was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales from 12 April 1920 until his sudden death in Sydney. His leadership enabled the New South Wales Labor Pa…
John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (died 1921)
Lucy Emily Beaumont was an English actress of the stage and screen from Bristol.
Lucy Beaumont, English-American actress (died 1937)
Grace Andrews was an American mathematician. She, along with Charlotte Angas Scott, was one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science, which appeared…
Grace Andrews, American mathematician (died 1951)
Richard Wünsch was a German classical philologist.
Richard Wünsch, German philologist (died 1915)
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to soci…
Susan B
Robert Baldwin Ross was a British journalist, art critic and art dealer, best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde, to whom he was a devoted friend, lover and literary execu…
Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist and art critic (died 1918)
The Boshin War , sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate…
Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward
The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, and the U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house. Together, the Senate…
The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote
The Treaty of Bosque Redondo also the Navajo Treaty of 1868 or Treaty of Fort Sumner, Navajo Naal Tsoos Sani or Naaltsoos Sání) was an agreement between the Navajo and the US Feder…
The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson for "high crimes and misdemeanors" was initiated by the United States House of Representatives on February 24, 1868. The alleged high crimes and m…
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: President Andrew Johnson is acquitted by one vote in the United States Senate