Explore 1001 historical events from 1860–1869.
Alfons Maria Mucha, known in English as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for…
Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and illustrator (died 1939)
Elias Milton Ammons served as the 19th governor of Colorado from 1913 to 1915. He is perhaps best remembered for ordering National Guard troops into Ludlow, Colorado during the Col…
Elias M. Ammons, American businessman and politician, 19th Governor of Colorado (died 1925)
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia was by birth member of the House of Romanov and a Grand Duchess of Russia and by marriage Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (died 1922)
Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington,, was a British politician and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901,…
Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (died 1940)
Mary Morris Vaux Walcott was an American artist and naturalist known for her watercolor paintings of wildflowers. She has been called the "Audubon of Botany."
Mary Vaux Walcott, American painter and illustrator (died 1940)
Bazil George Assan was a Romanian engineer, explorer and economist. Belonging to a wealthy family in Bucharest, Assan was an important figure in the industrialization of the Kingdo…
Bazil Assan, Romanian engineer and explorer (died 1918)
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.
William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer (died 1935)
Louis William Wain was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens.
Louis Wain, English artist (died 1939)
Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was an Indian music theorist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani classical music, an art which had been propagated for centuries most…
Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist (died 1936)
Ottó Titusz Bláthy was a Hungarian electrical engineer. During his career he became the co-inventor of the modern electric transformer, the voltage regulator, the AC watt-hour mete…
Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (died 1939)
Klara Hitler was the mother of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. In 1934, Adolf Hitler honoured his mother by naming a street in Passau after her.
Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (died 1907)
Annie Oakley was an American exhibition/trick shooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
Annie Oakley, American target shooter (died 1926)
Ernest Thompson Seton was a Canadian and American author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (…
Ernest Thompson Seton, American author, artist, and naturalist (died 1946)
Florence Mabel Harding was First Lady of the United States from 1921 until the death of her second husband, President Warren G. Harding, in 1923. She had initially studied to be a …
Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States (died 1924)
Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, generally known as Lord Hawke, was an English amateur cricketer active from 1881 to 1911 who played for Yorkshire and England. He was born in …
Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, English-Scottish cricketer (died 1938)
Jules Laforgue was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry …
Jules Laforgue, Uruguayan-French poet and author (died 1887)
Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. He was a conservative leade…
Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (died 1934)
Alfred Ploetz was a German physician, biologist, Social Darwinist, and eugenicist known for coining the term racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene), a form of eugenics, and for promoting t…
Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (died 1940)
David Bowman was a Labor politician in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland and Queensland Leader of the Opposition from 1908 to 1912.
David Bowman, Australian lawyer and politician (died 1916)
Isaac Ilyich Levitan was a Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".
Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator (died 1900)
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He invented the Nipkow disk, which laid the foundation of television, since his disk was a fundamental co…
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk (died 1940)
Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of socia…
Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
Mary Emma Jordan McConnel was an Australian trade unionist and suffragist. She was the first paid female trade union organiser in Queensland.
May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (died 1929)
Anna Mary Robertson Moses, popularly known as Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly succe…
Grandma Moses, American painter (died 1961)