Explore 683 historical events from 1860–1869.
Mary Williams, who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was an American caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the New York World, providing illust…
Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist (died 1961)
Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North Ame…
Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist (died 1940)
Hans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryoni…
Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
William Strunk Jr. was an American professor of English at Cornell University and the author of The Elements of Style (1918). After his former student E. B. White revised and exten…
William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (died 1946)
Liane de Pougy was a French dancer, courtesan and novelist. She was a Folies Bergère vedette, and was known as one of the most beautiful and notorious courtesans in Paris. Later in…
Liane de Pougy, French-Swiss dancer and author (died 1950)
Svend Kornbeck was a Danish stage and film actor.
Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (died 1933)
Rachel Caroline Eaton was believed to be the first Native American woman from Oklahoma to be awarded a Ph.D.
Rachel Caroline Eaton, American academic (died 1938)
Fernande Sadler was a French painter and engraver. She established the art collection at Grez-sur-Loing and became the mayor of that town in 1945.
Fernande Sadler, French painter and mayor (died 1949)
Xenophon Stratigos was a Greek military officer. He played a major role in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 and the Asia Minor Campaign of the Greco-Turkish War in 1921–22, serving also …
Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (died 1927)
Platon, born Paul Kulbusch, was an Estonian bishop and the first Orthodox saint of Estonian ethnicity.
Platon, Estonian bishop and saint (died 1919)
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists t…
Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (died 1946)
Hijikata Toshizō was a Japanese swordsman of the Bakumatsu period and Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi. As Vice-Commander, he served the Tokugawa Shogunate and co-led his group …
Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (born 1835)
John Augustus Roebling was a German-born American civil engineer. He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated a…
John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (born 1806)
Jan Evangelista Purkyně was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term "protoplasma" for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists…
Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (born 1787)
Charles Napier Sturt was a British officer and explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of the contine…
Charles Sturt, Indian-English botanist and explorer (born 1795)
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
The Battle of Hakodate was fought in Japan from December 4, 1868, to June 27, 1869, between the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate army, consolidated into the armed forces of the …
One day after surrendering at the Battle of Hakodate, Enomoto Takeaki turned the fort of Goryōkaku over to Japanese forc
The Meiji Restoration , referred to at the time as the Honorable Restoration , also known as the Meiji Renovation, Meiji Revolution, Meiji Regeneration, Meiji Reform, or Meiji Rene…
The military phase of the Meiji Restoration in Japan was completed with an imperial victory in the Boshin War
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 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
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…
Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time after
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
Mihailo Obrenović III was the ruling Prince of Serbia from 1839 to 1842 and again from 1860 to 1868.
Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated