Explore 319 historical events from 1860–1869.
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
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková was a Moravian teacher, journal editor, and women's rights activist. Born into a family of progressive educators, she studied to become a teacher, gr…
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková, Moravian educator (died 1915)
Alfred Henry Maurer was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century. Highly …
Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (died 1932)
Mary Farrand Rogers Miller was an American writer, naturalist, and educator. She authored The Brook Book (1902) and Outdoor Work (1911), as well as magazine articles and educationa…
Mary Rogers Miller, American author and educator (died 1971)
Alexander Herd was a Scottish professional golfer from St Andrews. He won The Open Championship in 1902 at Hoylake.
Sandy Herd, Scottish golfer (died 1944)
John Bevins Moisant was an American aviator, aeronautical engineer, flight instructor, businessman, and revolutionary. He was the first pilot to conduct passenger flights over a ci…
John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (died 1910)
Commissioner Lucy Milward Booth-Hellberg was the eighth and youngest child of Catherine and William Booth, the Founder of The Salvation Army.
Lucy Booth, English composer (died 1953)
Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy was an Imperial Russian mathematician of Ukrainian descent noted for defining the Voronoi diagram.
Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (died 1908)
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (died 1927)
Sumner Paine was an American shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Sumner Paine, American target shooter (died 1904)
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician, sexologist, and LGBTQ advocate whose German citizenship was revoked in 1933 by the Nazi government.
Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (died 1935)
Horace Elgin Dodge Sr. was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.
Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (died 1920)
Panagis Tsaldaris was a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece twice. He was a revered conservative politician and leader for many years (1922–1936) of the conserv…
Panagis Tsaldaris, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1936)
Nicholas II was Emperor of Russia from 1 November 1894 until his abdication in 1917. He was the last Russian monarch before the Russian Revolution and oversaw the Russian Empire's …
Nicholas II of Russia (died 1918)
Augusto Pestana was a Brazilian engineer and politician. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Pestana moved in the late 1880s to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, where he would b…
Augusto Pestana, Brazilian engineer and politician (died 1934)
Charles Edward Taylor was an American inventor, mechanic and machinist. He built the first aircraft engine used by the Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer, and was a vital contribu…
Charlie Taylor, American engineer and mechanic (died 1956)
Aleksa Šantić was a Herzegovinian Serb poet and writer from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Šantić wrote about the urban culture of his hometown Mostar and Herzegovina, the growing…
Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author (died 1924)
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and played a prominent role in passing the Reform Act 18…
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born
Henry Bennett was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a United States representative from New York from 1849 to 1859.
Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (born 1808)
Kondō Isami was a Japanese swordsman and samurai of the late Edo period. He was the fourth generation master of Tennen Rishin-ryū and was famed for his role as commander of the Sh…
Kondō Isami, Japanese commander (born 1834)
Julius Plücker was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode ra…
Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (born 1801)
Christopher Houston Carson, popularly known as Kit Carson, was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent and U.S. Army officer.
Kit Carson, American general (born 1809)
The Navajo are an Indigenous People of the Southwestern United States. The Navajo term for themselves is Diné. Their language is Navajo, a Southern Athabascan language. The states…
The Navajo and the U
James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the 17th United States secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represe…
James Buchanan, American lawyer and politician, 15th President of the United States (born 1791)