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 – 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 )

* 1860 William E. Curtis

* 1860 – William Corless Mills, American museum curator ( d. 1928 )

* 1860 – Emma Booth, daughter of William and Catherine Booth ( d. 1903 )

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

* 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.

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* 1786 – William Mason, American politician ( d. 1860 )

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson ( 3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935 ) was a

The 1860 census places William and Margaret Rice in Houston's 2nd Ward.

The lord in question, whose identity was veiled by Messrs Lea and Perrins ( who used to assert on the bottle's paper wrapping that the sauce came " from the recipe of a nobleman in the county ") was Arthur Moyses William Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys ( 1792 – 1860 ) of Ombersley Court, Worcestershire, Lieutenant-General and politician, a member of the House of Commons at the time of the legend.

His mother, Martha, wrote the following in a letter to William Clarke's successor George Parr in 1860 or 1861:

** William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician ( b. 1860 ) ( diabetes and fatigue )

* September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor ( b. 1860 )

* September 10 – William Mason, American politician ( d. 1860 )

* Barney, William L. The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860.

< center > Illustrated Map of Pony Express Route in 1860 </ center >< center > by William Henry Jackson </ center >< center > ~ Courtesy the Library of Congress ~</ center >< center > The Pony Express mail route, April 3, 1860 – October 24, 1861 ; Reproduction of Jackson illustration issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pony Express founding on April 3, 1960.

* Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860 – 1865, edited by Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin ( Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999 ) – a large collection of war-time letters ( November 1860 to May 1865 ).

* Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860 – 1865 ( posthumous, 1999 )

* Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860 – 1865, eds.

* William Horatio Bates ( 1860 – 1931 ) ( United States ) Creator of the unorthodox Bates Method, credited for being the founder of the Natural Vision Improvement movement.