On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

* 1805 – Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter ( d. 1926 )

* 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

* 1860 – William Kennedy Dickson, France-Scottish actor, director, and inventor ( d. 1935 )

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1860 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American writer and public speaker ( d. 1941 )

* 1860 – Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States ( d. 1924 )

* 1860 – Jules Laforgue, French poet ( d. 1887 )

* 1860 – Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, England cricketer ( d. 1938 )

* 1860 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1907 )

" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).

Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860 – 1869 ( 1934 ) online edition

* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, French wife of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

* 1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter ( d. 1900 )

* 1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.

* 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

* 1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and inventor ( d. 1939 )

* 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

* 1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and composer ( d. 1936 )

** Mary Amanda Snow ( 4 September 1860-6 September 1860 )

* 1940 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician ( b. 1860 )

* 1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician ( d. 1940 )

* 1860 – Douglas Hyde, Irish President of Ireland ( d. 1949 )

* Douglas Hyde ( 1860 – 1949 )-an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.

In 1860, an Irish settler named Parson Quinn settled just east of present-day Pomeroy, and lived there for the next 40 years.

* Reeves, William, On Marianus Scotus, of Ratisbon ( Royal Irish Academy, 1860 ) ( title details online at google. com )

Douglas Hyde (; 17 January 1860 – 12 July 1949 ), known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (" The Pleasant Little Branch "), was an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.

* G. M. Koot, " T. E. Cliffe Leslie, Irish Social Reform, and the Origins of the English Historical School of Economics ," in James Wilson ( 1805 – 1860 ), Isaac Butt ( 1813 – 1879 ), T. E. Cliffe Leslie ( 1827 – 1882 ), ed.

Between 1820 and 1860, the port of St. Andrews was used extensively during the Irish Migration.

Irish landscape painter James Brennan ( RHA ) was headmaster of the school from 1860 to 1889.

The Viscounts Taaffe had emigrated from Ireland to Austria in the 1700s and had served the Austrian emperor since that time, even while their Irish title was confirmed as recently as 1860.

While the Austrian priests traversed the Outback on horseback to found missions and schools, the Irish priests arrived in the east in 1860 and had by 1880 established the major schools of Xavier College in Melbourne, St Aloysius ' College and Saint Ignatius ' College, Riverview in Sydney-which each survive to the present.

General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB ( 7 December 1785 – 12 February 1860 ), Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian, third son of Colonel George Napier ( 1751 – 1804 ) and his wife, Lady Sarah Lennox ( 1845-1826 ) was born at Celbridge, near Dublin.

From 1820 to 1860, 1, 956, 557 Irish arrived, 75 % of these after the Great Irish Famine ( or The Great Hunger, ) of 1845 – 1852, struck.

Of the total Irish migrants to the U. S. from 1820 to 1860, many died crossing the ocean due to disease and dismal conditions of what became known as coffin ships.

After 1860, Irish immigration continued, with another 1, 916, 547 arriving by 1900, mainly due to family reunification, mostly to the industrial town and cities where Irish American neighborhoods had previously been established.

* William J. Butler ( 1860 – 1927 ), Irish silent film actor

With the Taaffes now living mainly in the lands of the Habsburgs, a Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords in 1860 recognized the right of the family to hold the Irish title.

Irish language activist and scholar Dr. Michael O ' Hickey ( 1860 – 1916 ) was dismissed in 1909 from his position as Professor of Irish, for his conduct in the controversy over Irish as a matriculation subject for the new National University of Ireland.