Explore 1232 historical events from 1860–1869.
Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki was a Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies. He was also the military commander of the Greater Poland Uprising.
Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (died 1937)
Sister Nivedita was an Irish–Indian philosopher, educator, writer, social activist and disciple of Swami Vivekananda.
Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian nurse, author, and educator (died 1911)
Socrates Nelson was an American businessman, politician, and pioneer who served one term as a Minnesota State Senator from 1859 to 1861. He was a general store owner, lumberman, an…
Socrates Nelson, American businessman and politician (born 1814)
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard was a German archaeologist. He was co-founder and secretary of the first international archaeological society.
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist and academic (born 1795)
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield was an English artist best known for his large-scale paintings of marine art and landscapes. A former sailor he became celebrated for his Romantic seas…
Clarkson Stanfield, English painter (born 1793)
Thomas Bulfinch was an American author born in Newton, Massachusetts, known best for Bulfinch's Mythology, a posthumous combination of his three volumes of mythologies.
Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (born 1796)
Miguel Gregorio de la Luz Atenógenes Miramón y Tarelo, known as Miguel Miramón, was a Mexican conservative general who disputed the Mexican presidency with Benito Juárez at the age…
Miguel Miramón, Unconstitutional president of Mexico, 1859-1860 (born 1832)
Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867.
Maximilian I of Mexico (born 1832)
Otto was King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 7 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.
Otto, king of Greece (born 1815)
August Böckh was a German classical scholar and antiquarian.
August Böckh, German historian and scholar (born 1785)
Juan Nepomuceno Álvarez Hurtado de Luna, generally known as Juan Álvarez, was a general, long-time caudillo in southern Mexico, and president of Mexico for two months in 1855, foll…
Juan Álvarez, Mexican general and president (1855) (born 1790)
Ramón Castilla y Marquesado was a Peruvian caudillo who served twice as President of Peru, first in 1845–1851, and then in 1855–1862. He also led a Military junta in 1844, and was …
Ramón Castilla, Peruvian military leader and politician, President of Peru (born 1797)
Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy was a French satirical poet. His name can hardly be separated from that of his friend and compatriot, Joseph Méry (1798–1866), with whom he carried on …
Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet and author (born 1796)
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)
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherit…
Charles Baudelaire, French poet and critic (born 1821)
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)
Oliver Loving was an American rancher and cattle driver. Together with Charles Goodnight, he developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail. He was mortally wounded by Comanches while on a c…
Oliver Loving, American rancher, co-developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail (born 1812)
Sterling Price was an American politician and military officer who was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, fighting in both the Western and Trans-Mississippi theater o…
Sterling Price, American major general and politician (born 1809)
Hedvig "Hedda" Katarina Hjortsberg also known as Hedda Koersner was a Swedish ballerina who starred for the Royal Swedish Ballet. She was the sister of the Swedish actor Lars Hjort…
Hedda Hjortsberg, Swedish ballerina (born 1777)
Elias Howe Jr. was an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.
Elias Howe, American engineer, invented the sewing machine (born 1819)
Thora Johanna Ulrika Thersner was a Swedish graphic artist and illustrator who was known for contributing half of the illustrations of the Fordna och närvarande Sverige topographic…
Thora Thersner, Swedish artist (born 1818)
Franz Bopp was a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages.
Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (born 1791)
Francis Xavier Seelos, C.Ss.R., was a German Redemptorist missionary, who worked in the United States, particularly in parishes serving immigrant communities on the American fronti…
Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (born 1819)
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