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 )

The first few chapters of the novel, dealing with the discovery of Erewhon, are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years ( 1860 – 1864 ) and explored parts of the interior of the South Island of which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement ( 1863 ).

* 1860 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.

First of all in 1860 the town schools, hitherto open to " settlers " only on paying high fees, were made accessible to all, next in 1875 ten years ' residence ipso facto conferred the right of burghership, while in 1893 the eleven outlying districts were incorporated with the town proper

" Bathhouse " John Coughlin ( August 15, 1860 – November 11, 1938 ) was an alderman of Chicago's First Ward from 1893 until his death.

Two years later, the First Methodist Church was organized, followed in 1860 by the First Baptist Church of Water Valley.

The oldest of these churches is First Congregational Church, founded in 1860.

* Smith, Sir Harry " Various Anecdotes and Events of my Life-The Autobiography of Lt. Gen. Sir Harry Smith, covering the period 1787 to 1860 " First published in 2 volumes, edited by G. C.

He joined the " King Movement " and fought in the First Taranaki War in 1860 and 1861.

1826: First choral rally in Sweden ( 1827 Germany, 1860 London, 1867 Paris ...)

trans., 1876 ); First Age of Christianity ( 1860 ); Lectures on the Reunion of the Churches ; The Vatican Decrees ; Studies in European History ( tr.

* The First Taranaki War ( 1860 – 1861 )

* First President under the present Constitution: Justo José de Urquiza, 1854 to 1860.

The First Taranaki War was an armed conflict over land ownership and sovereignty that took place between Māori and the New Zealand Government in the Taranaki district of New Zealand's North Island from March 1860 to March 1861.

The term is avoided by some historians, who either describe the conflicts as merely a series of West Coast campaigns that took place between the Taranaki War ( 1860 – 1861 ) and Titokowaru's War ( 1868 – 69 ), or an extension of the First Taranaki War.

* William Robertson – Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO ( 29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933 ), Chief of the Imperial General Staff ( CIGS ) from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.

In 1860 he accepted a call from the First Unitarian Church of San Francisco, California.

The Pony Express, operational from 1860 – 61, and the First Transcontinental Telegraph, completed in 1861, both followed the earlier emigrant trails along the Platte.

In 1860 with the reorganization of the First Presidency, Joseph Smith III became the second Prophet-President of this church and also President of a new First Presidency.

The first shots of the First Taranaki War were fired on 17 March 1860.

Florence Mabel Kling " Flossie " Harding ( previously DeWolfe ; August 15, 1860, Marion, Ohio – November 21, 1924 ), wife of President Warren G. Harding, was the First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923.

Ellen Axson Wilson ( May 15, 1860 – August 6, 1914 ), first wife of Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1913 until her death.