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 – 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 )

Ottó Titusz Bláthy ( Tata 11 August 1860 – Budapest 26 September 1939 ) was a Hungarian electrical engineer.

Engineers Miksa Déri ( 1854 – 1938 ) and Ottó Bláthy ( 1860 – 1939 ) also worked at the department producing direct-current machines and arc lamps.

* September 21 – István Széchenyi, Hungarian politician and writer ( d. 1860 )

* December 15 – János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician ( d. 1860 )

János Bolyai ( pronounced ) ( December 15, 1802 – January 27, 1860 ) was a Hungarian mathematician, one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry — a geometry that differs from Euclidean geometry in its definition of parallel lines.

* September 21-István Széchenyi, Hungarian politician and writer ( died 1860 )

In 1860, Pragersko was connected to Ormož and further to Čakovec, Croatia, thus connecting the Austrian and the Hungarian part of the empire.

The crisis attending the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859, with strong Hungarian popular support for the Italian cause, returned him to active political life, although he opposed the initial Austrian reform proposals of 1860.

Count István Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék ( pronounced ; September 21, 1791 – April 8, 1860 ) was a Hungarian politician, theorist and writer, one of the greatest statesmen of Hungarian history.

Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka the Younger (; 30 June 1860, Trebišov – 11 June 1929 ) was a Hungarian politician.

In 1860, the Hungarian language replaced Latin as the language of instruction

Having suppressed the Hungarian anti-Habsburg movement ( in 1849 ), Austrian authorities established a new province to which Sentomaš belonged to: the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar, which existed until 1860.

In 1860, the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar was abolished and most of its territory ( Banat and Bačka ) was incorporated into the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary, although direct Hungarian rule began only in 1867, after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, when Kingdom of Hungary gained autonomy within newly formed Austria-Hungary.

The most tragic was the wreck of the SS Hungarian in February 1860 with the loss of over 200 lives.

Franz Wittman ( 16 January 1860, Hódmezővásárhely – 1932, Budapest ), Hungarian electrical engineer and physicist.

Anton ( Antal ) Zilzer ( 1860, Budapest-November 16, 1921 ), Hungarian painter.

In 1860, the Voivodship of Serbia and Tamiš Banat was abolished and most of its territory ( Banat and Bačka ) was incorporated into the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary, although direct Hungarian rule began only in 1867, when the Kingdom of Hungary gained autonomy within the newly formed Austria-Hungary.

* William B. Mayo, ( 1860 – 1944 ), chief power engineer of Ford Motor Company

* 1860 – Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer scholar, and statesman, Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom ( d. 1962 )

* 1860 – Joseph Locke, English engineer ( b. 1805 )

The cydippid ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei A. Agassiz, 1860 was named for him ; it was discovered in 1859 by Alexander Agassiz who was working as an engineer on a ship surveying the United States / Canada boundary between Washington State and British Columbia.

* 1860: Giovanni Luppis, a retired engineer of the Austro-Hungarian navy, demonstrates a design for a self-propelled torpedo to emperor Franz Joseph.

* 1860: in Espalion ( France ), mining engineer Benoît Rouquayrol designs a self-contained breathing set with a backpack cylindrical air tank that supplied air through the first demand regulator to be commercialized ( as of 1865, see below ).

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

* John Duncan Watson ( 1860 – 1946 ), British civil engineer

McClellan resigned his commission January 16, 1857, and, capitalizing on his experience with railroad assessment, became chief engineer and vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad and also president of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in 1860.

* Joseph Locke ( 1805 – 1860 ), British railway engineer

For example, the British engineer Joseph Swan built an incandescent electric lamp in 1860, almost 20 years before Edison.

* Joseph Locke ( 1805 – 1860 ) civil engineer

Colcord moved west to California in 1856, to Aurora, Nevada in 1860, and to Virginia City, Nevada in 1863, He became a successful mining engineer.

* Carl von Ghega ( 1802 – 1860 ), engineer

* Schuyler Skaats Wheeler ( 1860 – 1923 ), American engineer, inventor of the electric fan

Joseph Locke ( 9 August 1805 – 18 September 1860 ) was a notable English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway projects.

In 1860 a mining engineer from Espalion ( France ), Benoît Rouquayrol, had invented a demand valve with an iron air reservoir to let miners breathe in flooded mines.

During the same period, a French engineer Louis-Guillaume Perreaux, one of the pioneers of motorcycle, had been working on a similar project since before 1860.

* Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park ( 1860 – 1938 ), Scottish mining engineer, explorer of Africa, and railway developer in Angola

Alfred Belpaire Alfred Jules Belpaire ( 26 September 1820 – 27 January 1893 ) was a Belgian locomotive engineer who invented the square-topped Belpaire firebox in 1860.

* Sir Frederick Wilfred Scott Stokes, KBE ( 1860 – 1927 ), inventor and civil engineer

During the 1860 ’ s, the campaign to make the park publicly accessible was underway, and the city engineer, W. G.