Explore 1001 historical events from 1860–1869.
Simon Sechter was an Austrian music theorist, composer, conductor, and organist. He is best known as a strict music teacher, whose many students included Anton Bruckner, Sigismond …
Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (born 1788)
Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles under…
Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (born 1791)
The second French intervention in Mexico, also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867), was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleo…
Second French intervention in Mexico: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico was executed by firing squad in Querétaro City
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Repres…
The United States Congress established the Indian Peace Commission to seek peace treaties with a number of Native…
Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. It is observed on the last…
Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Repres…
The United States Congress establishes the nickel
Oliver Fisher Winchester was an American businessman and politician, best known as being the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms
The Battle of Custoza took place on the 24 June 1866 during the Third Italian War of Independence in the Italian unification process.
Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War
The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a rebellion with a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866, in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence was ignited by politica…
The Memphis Race Riots begin
Peruvians are the citizens of Peru. What is now Peru has been inhabited for several millennia by cultures such as the Caral before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Peruvia…
Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revi…
Bedrich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague
Transatlantic telegraph cables are undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean which were used for telegraph communications.
The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland,…
The Grand Duchy of Baden was a German polity on the east bank of the Rhine. It originally existed as a sovereign state from 1806 to 1871 and later as part of the German Empire unti…
The Grand Duchy of Baden announces its withdrawal from the German Confederation and signs a treaty of peace and…
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government an…
President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
José de Diego y Martínez was a Puerto Rican statesman, journalist, poet, lawyer, and advocate for Puerto Rico's political autonomy in union with Spain and later of Puerto Rican ind…
José de Diego, Puerto Rican journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1918)
The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish republican organisation founded in the United States in 1858 by John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny. It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister o…
The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, but the raids end soon after
The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs…
One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-
The Austro-Prussian War was fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, with each also being aided by various allies within the German Confederation. Pru…
Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgrätz, enabling Prussia to exclude Austria from German affairs.
The Austro-Prussian War was fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, with each also being aided by various allies within the German Confederation. Pru…
Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa: The Austrian Navy, led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian…
The Reconstruction era, often simply called Reconstruction, was a period in United States history that followed the American Civil War (1861–1865) and was dominated by the legal, s…
Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War.
Ernest Henry Starling was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology,…
Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (died 1927)
Maurice Raoul-Duval was a French polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (died 1916)
Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel sometimes spelled Stillwell-Kuesel was a pioneer American dentist. She was the founder of the Women's Dental Association of the United States, which s…
Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, American pioneer dentist (died 1936)
Thomas Barfoed Thrige was a Danish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessman. In 1894, he started the company Thomas B. Thrige, a manufacturer of electric motors, now known as T-…
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