Explore 1232 historical events from 1860–1869.
Laura Secord was a Canadian woman involved in the War of 1812. She is known for having walked 20 miles (32 km) out of American-occupied territory in 1813 to warn British forces of …
Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (born 1775)
The Boshin War , sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate…
Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards N
The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the United States, was held in the United States Senate and concluded with acquittal on three of eleven charges before ad…
The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson adjourned after the second and third articles of impeachment did not obtain enou
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Considered one of the most consequential amendments…
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, including the Citizenship Clause and the Equal Protection…
The 1868 Arica earthquake occurred on 13 August 1868, near Arica, then part of Peru, now part of Chile, at 21:30 UTC. It had an estimated magnitude between 8.8 and 9.1, although ea…
A major earthquake near Arica, Peru (now in Chile), caused an estimated 25,000 casualties; the subsequent tsunami…
St Pancras International is a major central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It is the terminus for Eurostar services between the United King…
St Pancras railway station (pictured) in London, now the terminus of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, opened to the public.
The Satake clan was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Minamoto clan. Its first power base was in Hitachi Province. The clan was subdued by Minamoto no Yoritomo…
Ōdate, the last castle of the Satake clan in Japan's Tōhoku region, was captured during the Boshin War.
The Nanbu clan was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled most of northeastern Honshū in the Tōhoku region of Japan for over 700 years, from the Kamakura period through the Meiji Resto…
The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during the Boshin War.
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther, was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second…
Albert Günther publishes the first study to recognise that the New Zealand tuatara is not a lizard
Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867.
Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 established the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, which was a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states. The Compromise only …
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungaria
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his death in 1916.…
Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich)
The Constitution Act, 1867, originally enacted as the British North America Act, 1867, is a major part of the Constitution of Canada. The act created Canada, a federal country, and…
The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into…
The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) is the dental school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to the DMD…
Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S.…
Midway Atoll is a 2.4 sq mi (6.2 km2) atoll in the North Pacific Ocean. Midway Atoll is an insular area of the United States, and is an unorganized and unincorporated territory of …
The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
The Nova Scotia House of Assembly (French: Assemblée législative de la Nouvelle-Écosse, or Legislative Assembly, is the deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia…
The first provincial election for the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly after Canada's Confederation returns a large…
The current Constitution of the State of Maryland, which was ratified by the people of the state on September 18, 1867, forms the basic law for the U.S. state of Maryland. It rep…
The fourth and current State Constitution of Maryland is ratified by voters.
Toronto, Canada's largest city, was founded as the Town of York and capital of Upper Canada in 1793 after the Mississaugas sold the land to the British in the Toronto Purchase. For…
Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was a Danish physician and professor of anatomical pathology at the University of Copenhagen. He was the recipient of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiolo…
Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
Emperor Meiji ; 3 November 1852 – 29 July 1912) was Emperor of Japan from 30 January 1867 until his death in 1912. The Meiji Restoration proclaimed the Empire of Japan in 1868, beg…
Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
The Alaska Purchase in 1867 resulted in the transfer of Russian America to the United States for $7.2 million. On April 9 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilatera…
United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the…
The Medicine Lodge Treaty is the overall name for three treaties signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the Federal government of the United States and southern Plains Indian …
The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American…
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane…
Wilbur Wright, American inventor (died 1912)
Giuseppe "the Clutch Hand" Morello, also known as "the Old Fox", was the first boss of the Morello crime family and later top adviser to Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria. He was kn…
Giuseppe Morello, Italian-American mobster (died 1930)