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 – 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 )

* Florence Nightingale founds school for nurses in 1860.

* Ellen Axson Wilson ( 1860 – 1914 ), first wife of president Woodrow Wilson, came as an art student to the Florence Griswold House

B. Florence, who represented Lane County from 1858 – 1860 ; another notion is that Florence was named for a French vessel that was wrecked at the mouth of the Siuslaw River on February 17, 1875.

Holloway was born in Manor Park, Essex ( now in the London Borough of Newham ), the younger child and only son of George Augustus Holloway ( 1860 – 1919 ), a lawyer's clerk, and Florence May née Bell ( 1862 – 1913 ), a housekeeper and dressmaker.

* April 29 – Florence Farr, actress, singer and composer ( b. 1860 )

From 1851 to 1860 he represented his country in Florence.

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.

Theodore Parker ( Lexington, Massachusetts, August 24, 1810 – Florence, Italy, May 10, 1860 ) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church.

The statue of the Infant St John, which had been modelled in Florence in 1860, was exhibited in Paris in bronze, and was acquired by the French State for the Musée du Luxembourg.

Holstein joined the diplomatic service and in 1860 became an attaché at the Prussian embassy in Saint Petersburg under the authority of Otto von Bismarck and later served as a member of the legations at Rio de Janeiro, London, Washington, Florence, and Copenhagen.

Florence Nightingale was one of the pioneers in establishing the idea of nursing schools from her base at St Thomas ' Hospital, London in 1860 when she opened the ' Nightingale Training School for Nurses '.

* Florence Harding ( 1860 – 1924 ), First Lady of the US

Florence Nightingale started the first Army Medical School there in 1860, but by the 1920s the hospital was closed and the site converted into a girls school, now known as Fort Pitt Grammar School.

In 1860, with the Cavour party, he opposed the work of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Francesco Crispi and Agostino Bertani at Naples, and became secretary of Luigi Carlo Farini during the latters lieutenancy, but in 1865 assumed contemporaneously the editorship of the Perseveranza of Milan and the chair of Latin literature at Florence.

Browsing in a flea market in Florence in 1860, Browning came across a large volume of these written statements relating to the 1698 Franceschini case, and bought it on the spot.

The exiles received an enthusiastic welcome in London, but Settembrini after a short stay in England joined his family at Florence in 1860.

Later, in 1860, Florence Nightingale fixed ventilation and fresh air as “ the very first canon of nursing ,” and underlined the importance of quiet, proper lighting, warmth, and clean water.

From the 14th century it was a possession of Florence and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany until the unification of Italy in 1860.

Page then went to Italy, where he resided for eleven years in Florence and Rome, coming back to New York in 1860.

In January 1860 he began five month a tour of Europe with friends during which they visited London, Paris, Florence, Rome, and Venice.

The School has a history which dates back to the first ever school of nursing opened by Florence Nightingale at St. Thomas ' Hospital on 9 July 1860.

On the downfall of the republic, he fled to Switzerland, then to Belgium and later to France, taking a prominent part in revolutionary journalism ; it was not until 1860 that he returned to Italy, where he was appointed professor of dramatic literature at Florence.