Explore 1001 historical events from 1860–1869.
Andy Bowen was an American lightweight boxer best known for fighting the world's longest boxing match, which took place in 1893 against Jack Burke.
Andy Bowen, American boxer (died 1894)
John Thomas Hearne was a Middlesex and England medium-fast bowler. His aggregate of 3061 first-class wickets is the greatest for any bowler of medium pace or above, and his 257 wic…
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Władysław Stanisław Reymont was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi.
Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1925)
Margarete Böhme was, arguably, one of the most widely read German writers of the early 20th century. Böhme authored 40 novels – as well as short stories, autobiographical sketches,…
Margarete Böhme, German novelist (died 1939)
Hugh Trumble was an Australian cricketer who played 32 Test matches as a bowling all-rounder between 1890 and 1904. He captained the Australian team in two Tests, winning both. Tru…
Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (died 1938)
Kurt Eisner was a German politician, revolutionary, journalist, and theatre critic. As a socialist journalist, he organized the socialist revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach …
Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Bavaria (died 1919)
Minakata Kumagusu was a Japanese author, biologist, naturalist and ethnologist.
Minakata Kumagusu, Japanese author, biologist, naturalist and ethnologist (died 1941)
Anne Walter Fearn was an American physician who went to Shanghai, China, on a temporary posting in 1893, and remained there for 40 years.
Anne Walter Fearn, American physician (died 1939)
Anders Peter Nielsen was a Danish sport shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century in rifle shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olymp…
Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (died 1950)
Mary of Teck was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King George V.
Mary of Teck, English-born queen consort of the United Kingdom (died 1953)
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories…
Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright (died 1931)
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military commander and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War (1918), as regent of Finla…
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish general and politician, 6th President of Finland (died 1951)
David Thomas Abercrombie was the founder of the American brand Abercrombie & Fitch. A topographer and expert in the outdoors, Abercrombie opened the company as New York's outfitter…
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Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key rol…
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (died 1959)
Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry was a French physicist working on optics. Together with Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. He is also one of the co-discovere…
Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (died 1945)
René Seyssaud was a Provençal painter and is known as a precursor of Fauvism.
René Seyssaud, French painter (died 1952)
Flora Finch was an English-born vaudevillian, stage and film actress who starred in over 300 silent films, including over 200 for the Vitagraph Studios film company. The vast major…
Flora Finch, English-American actress (died 1940)
John Robert Gregg was an Irish-born American educator, publisher, and inventor, best known as the creator of the eponymous shorthand writing system, Gregg shorthand. Developed in t…
John Robert Gregg, Irish-born American educator, publisher, and humanitarian (died 1948)
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction wri…
Henry Lawson, Australian poet and author (died 1922)
Leon Jan Wachholz (Wacholz) (June 20, 1867 – December 1, 1942) was a Polish scientist and medical examiner. He researched and taught as a professor of forensic and social medicine …
Leon Wachholz, Polish scientist and medical examiner (died 1942)
Oscar Bluemner, born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and after 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a Prussian-born American Modernist painter.
Oscar Florianus Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator (died 1938)
William Brede Kristensen was a Norwegian born, Dutch theologian, professor and historian of religion.
William Brede Kristensen, Norwegian historian of religion (died 1953)
Ruth Miriam Edström was an American peace activist and fighter for women's rights. She worked with the pre-work for the third peace conference in The Hague. She participated in the…
Ruth Randall Edström, American educator and activist (died 1944)
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer most noted for his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and inge…
Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)