Explore 1001 historical events from 1860–1869.
Bernarr Macfadden was an American proponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories. He founded the long-running magazine publishing…
Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder and publisher, founded Macfadden Publications (died 1955)
Ellen Crosby Roosevelt was an American tennis player. Roosevelt was a daughter of John Aspinwall Roosevelt, an estate proprietor, and Ellen Murray Crosby. She started playing tenni…
Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (died 1954)
Willis Rodney Whitney was an American chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company. He is known as the "father of industrial research" in the Unit…
Willis R. Whitney, American chemist (died 1958)
Edgar Lee Masters was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology (1915), The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Sati…
Edgar Lee Masters, American lawyer, author, poet, and playwright (died 1950)
General Hong Beom-do was a Korean independence activist and national hero. Hong served as commander of a guerrilla unit of the Justice Army "Yibyon" within the Righteous armies and…
Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist (died 1943)
Heinrich Häberlin was a Swiss politician, judge and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1920–1934).
Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (died 1947)
Silas Seth Weeks was an American composer who played mandolin, violin, banjo and guitar. Although he played many instruments he concentrated professionally on the mandolin. He is c…
Seth Weeks, American mandolin player, composer, and bandleader (died 1953)
Joseph-Napoléon-Henri Bourassa was a French Canadian political leader and publisher. In 1899, Bourassa was outspoken against the British government's request for Canada to send a m…
Henri Bourassa, Canadian publisher and politician (died 1952)
Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and peo…
Mary Hunter Austin, American author, poet, and critic (died 1934)
Jean-Baptiste-Théodore-Marie Botrel was a French singer-songwriter, poet and playwright. He is best known for his popular songs about his native Brittany, of which the most famous …
Théodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright (died 1925)
James Alexander Calder was a Canadian politician.
James Alexander Calder, Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence (died 1956)
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)
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 (born 1823)
Heber Chase Kimball was an American religious leader who was a pioneer in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Church …
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Carlo Matteucci was an Italian physicist and neurophysiologist who was a pioneer in the study of bioelectricity.
Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (born 1811)
Harada Sanosuke was a Japanese warrior (samurai) who lived in the late Edo period. He was the 10th unit captain of the Shinsengumi, and died during the Boshin War.
Harada Sanosuke, Japanese captain (born 1840)
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who was a central figure of Russian nihilism. He is noted as a forerunner of Nietzschean philosophy, and for …
Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (born 1840)
William Bland was a prominent public figure in the colony of New South Wales. A surgeon by profession, he arrived in Australia as a convict but played an important role in the earl…
William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (born 1789)
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)
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes, was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint to…
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and historian (born 1788)