Explore 1232 historical events from 1860–1869.
Isaac Ilyich Levitan was a Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".
Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator (died 1900)
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)
Mariamna Vladimirovna Veryovkina, commonly known as Marianne von Werefkin, was a Russian-born painter, active in Germany and Switzerland during the late Belle Époque and interwar p…
Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (died 1938)
James Allan ) was a New Zealand rugby union player who played eight games for the New Zealand national rugby union team, and was nicknamed the Taieri Giant. Allan played in the fir…
James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (died 1934)
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)
John Joseph Pershing, nicknamed "Black Jack", was an American army general, educator, and founder of the Pershing Rifles. He served as the commander of the American Expeditionary F…
John J. Pershing, American general and lawyer (died 1948)
Hannibal Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Mi…
Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer (died 1940)
Mihkel Martna was an Estonian politician and journalist.
Mihkel Martna, Estonian journalist and politician (died 1934)
Alberto Franchetti was an Italian composer and racing driver, best known for the 1902 opera Germania.
Alberto Franchetti, Italian-American composer and educator (died 1942)
Paul Ulrich Villard was a French chemist and physicist. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying the radiation emanating from radium.
Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (died 1934)
Leonidas Paraskevopoulos was a Greek military officer and politician. He played a major role in Greece's war effort during the First World War, and was the commander-in-chief of th…
Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (died 1936)
John Dickson Batten, born in Plymouth, Devon, was an English painter of figures in oils, tempera and fresco and a book illustrator and printmaker. He was an active member of the So…
John D. Batten, British painter, printmaker and illustrator (died 1932)
Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the…
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass (died 1930)
Henry Campbell Black was the founder of Black's Law Dictionary, the definitive legal dictionary in the US first published in 1891.
Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary (died 1927)
Frank Boardman "Pistol Pete" Eaton was an American scout, sheriff, cowboy, and author. He is the inspiration for the Oklahoma State University mascot, Pistol Pete.
Frank Eaton, American marshal and author (died 1958)
Jean-Charles Prince was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, teacher, seminary administrator, editor, and Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada from 1852 to 1860.
Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (born 1804)
Ludwig Bechstein was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales.
Ludwig Bechstein, German author (born 1801)
Kanō Jigorō was a Japanese judoka, educator, politician, and the founder of judo. Judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain widespread international recognition, and…
Kanō Jigorō, Japanese martial artist (died 1938)
Sir Charles Barry was an English architect best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for nu…
Charles Barry, English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (born 1795)
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck was a German lieutenant general, diplomat and military writer. He wrote several major military-political works and military histories, which wer…
Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (born 1783)
George Montgomery White was an American politician in North Carolina who was a two-term member of the North Carolina House of Commons from Bladen County.
George Montgomery White, American politician (born 1828)
Thomas Addison was an English physician and medical researcher. He is traditionally regarded as one of the "great men" of Guy's Hospital in London.
Thomas Addison, English physician and endocrinologist (born 1793)
Charles Goodyear was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Pat…
Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (born 1800)