Explore 319 historical events from 1860–1869.
General Sir Henry George Chauvel, was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the Middle Eastern th…
Harry Chauvel, Australian general (died 1945)
Julia Ledóchowska, USAHJ, in religion Maria Ursula of Jesus, was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.
Ursula Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of J
Ali Agha Ismail Agha oghlu Shikhlinski ; 3 March [O.S. 15 March] 1863 – 18 August 1943) was an Azerbaijani lieutenant-general of the Imperial Russian Army, Deputy Minister of Defen…
Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (died 1943)
Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of th…
Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (died 1931)
Max Heinrich Hermann Reinhardt Nettlau was a German anarchist and historian.
Max Nettlau, German historian and academic (died 1944)
William Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist, the most popular writer for the Broadway stage of his time.
Clyde Fitch, American playwright (died 1909)
Helen Maud Merrill was an American litterateur and poet from Maine. Her first published poem was in the Waterville Sentinel, in 1882. During the decade of 1882–1892, Merrill contri…
Helen Maud Merrill, American litterateur and poet (died 1943)
Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa was a Brazilian politician and jurist who served as the 11th president of Brazil between 1919 and 1922, when Rodrigues Alves was unable to take of…
Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian jurist and politician, 11th President of Brazil (died 1942)
Angelo Secchi was an Italian Catholic priest and astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia. He was director of the observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University for 28 year…
Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'
The Union is a term used to refer to the central government and loyal states of the United States during the American Civil War. Its military forces and civilian population resiste…
Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828. The empire…
The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance
The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox Court House, by General Rober…
American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia
Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch experimental physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effec…
Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
Mathilde Verne was an English pianist and teacher, of German descent. Along with most of her other sisters, Mathilde changed her surname to Verne in 1893 after the death of their f…
Mathilde Verne, English pianist and educator (died 1936)
Robert William Chambers was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895.
Robert W
George Alfred Lohmann was an English cricketer, regarded as one of the greatest bowlers of all time. Statistically, he holds the lowest lifetime Test bowling average among bowlers …
George Lohmann, English cricketer (died 1901)
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama
Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. The 16th vice president, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lin…
American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West …
American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who ling
The Battle of Palmito Ranch, also known as the Battle of Palmito Hill, is considered by some criteria the final battle of the American Civil War. It was fought May 12 and 13, 1865,…
American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Ci
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It…
The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
George V of the United Kingdom (died 1936)
Silas Stillman Soule was an American abolitionist, teenage conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and early example of what would later be called a "whistleblower…
Silas Soule, American soldier and whistleblower of the Sand Creek Massacre (born 1838)
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the pro…
John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838)