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 )

* 1777 – Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden ( d. 1860 )

Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary ( 8 November 1777 – 17 December 1860 ), one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte, was a Frenchwoman who became Queen of Sweden and Norway as the consort of King Charles XIV John, a former French General and founder of the House of Bernadotte.

Désirée died in Stockholm on 17 December 1860.

Amazon preparing for a battle ( Queen Antiop or Armed Venus ), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. )

The Queen's Plate was founded in 1860 by Queen Victoria.

It led to international fame and recognition and that same year she travelled to Scotland, " en route " meeting Queen Victoria, who admired her work, and where she completed sketches for later works including A Scottish Raid, completed in 1860, and Highland Shepherd.

Axminster railway station was opened on 19 July 1860, with the London and South Western Railway ( LSWR ) offering direct services between Queen Street Station in Exeter and Yeovil.

Queen Victoria opened the first meeting of the British Rifle Association at Wimbledon, in 1860 by firing a Whitworth rifle from a fixed mechanical rest.

It was first referred to as the Honourable Artillery Company in 1685 and officially received the name from Queen Victoria in 1860.

The penny of Queen Victoria ( 1837 – 1901 ) is one of the most intricate denominations of British coinage, with most of the varieties emerging after the switch from copper to bronze coinage in 1860.

Just three portraits of the Queen were used on the penny in the whole of her reign, the Young Head ( used from 1838 to 1859, with rare copper issues from 1860-the 60 is struck over 59 ), designed by William Wyon ( who died in 1851 ), whose eldest son Leonard Charles Wyon ( 1826 – 91 ) designed the bronze coinage of 1860 with the second (" bun ") head ( 1860-1894 with scarce issues of the farthing in 1895 ), and finally the Old Head ( or " veiled head ") designed by Thomas Brock which was used on the penny from 1895 to 1901.

The first obverse showed the Young Head of the Queen, facing left, with the inscription with the date beneath the head ; this obverse was used ( with a slight alteration in 1858 ) until the end of the copper penny issue in 1860.

Another famous work that he produced toward the end of their marriage was his Regina Cordium or The Queen of Hearts ( 1860 ).

Then when he returned for his second term of governorship in 1860 he brought Nene a silver cup from Queen Victoria.

Opened in 1860 by Edward, Prince of Wales, it was named in honour of Queen Victoria.

The film fasts forward to 1860 ; Queen ( Halle Berry ) and Jane are two young ladies growing up in the South.

Prince Alfred, second son of Queen Victoria, began construction of the harbour in 1860.

* Girouard, Mark, Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement, 1860 – 1900, Yale University Press, 1984.

From there, aided by his well-developed technical and commercial acumen and a contract to photograph the Royal Family while documenting the building of Balmoral Castle in 1854-1855, he established himself as one of Scotland's premier photographers working for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1860.

The first stone of the Tower was laid by Queen Victoria on 22 December 1843, and construction was completed in 1860.

By 1850, new renovations of the grande ballroom were completed, that permitted Queen Maria II to receive Portuguese society, and by 1860, the Infanta Antónia married Prince Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern in the same space.

In 1860 the floret of the merchant marine, named " The Queen of the Angels " ( a three-masted ship of 740 barrels ), visited this port.

* Queen was an Indian service paddle sloop launched in 1839 and listed until 1860.

Queen Victoria presented Michael Murphy with his Victoria Cross at the Quadrangle, Windsor Castle on 4 January 1860.

He was Presented to Queen Victoria at a Levee at St James ' Palace on 24 April 1860.

Rushe received his Victoria Cross from Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 4 January 1860.