With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.

From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.

Anti-slavery Northerners mobilized in 1860 behind moderate Abraham Lincoln because he was most likely to carry the doubtful western states.

Lincoln ’ s assessment of the political issue for the 1860 elections was that, " This question of Slavery was more important than any other ; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present.

In 1860 the Thorndon Park reservoir was opened, finally providing an alternative water source to the now turbid River Torrens.

In 1860, Alcott was named superintendent of Concord Schools.

In May 1860 a significantly amended version of the Act was passed in both houses but was vetoed by President Buchanan.

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

After the acceptance of Avogadro's hypothesis in 1860 it was understood that elements could exist as polyatomic molecules, and the two allotropes of oxygen were recognized as O < sub > 2 </ sub > and O < sub > 3 </ sub >.

The first instrumental analysis was flame emissive spectrometry developed by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff who discovered rubidium ( Rb ) and caesium ( Cs ) in 1860.

Aberfoyle Golf Club was built in 1860 and is located just south of town near the Rob Roy restaurant.

An equestrian statue was erected to his memory on the Heldenplatz in Vienna in 1860.

This contrasts with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 61 which was much better funded, but resulted in the deaths of three of the members of the transcontinental party.

Bromine was not produced in large quantities until 1860.

By 1860, Cuba was devoted to growing sugar, having to import all other necessary goods.

Daniel Barringer ( 1860 – 1929 ) was one of the first to identify an impact crater, Meteor Crater in Arizona ; to crater specialists the site is referred to as Barringer Crater in his honor.

Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

Coloured Cheddar-style cheese has long been sold, but even as early as 1860, the real reason for this was unclear: Joseph Harding stated " to the cheese consumers of London who prefer an adulterated food to that which is pure I have to announce an improvement in the annatto with which they compel the cheesemakers to colour the cheese ".

The earliest hymn book published was the " Sacred Melodist " which was published by Benjamin Wilson in Geneva, Illinois in 1860.

Nice participated – directly or indirectly – in the history of Savoy up until 1860.

Financial historians Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright have shown that before 1860 most early U. S. corporations sold shares in themselves directly to the public without the aid of intermediaries like investment banks.

The railways arrived in 1860, at an opportune moment, directly after phylloxera had destroyed the local wine industry.

The Lincoln's Inn Act 1860 was passed directly to allow the Inn to charge the various freeholders in the Square fees.

However, Roberts attempted to avoid secession, waiting during his probation period to appeal his case directly to the General Conference of the MEC to be held in 1860.

Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky () ( 8 March 1860 – 27 February 1928 ) was a German diplomat, the author of a noted pamphlet of 1916 that deplored German diplomacy in mid-1914 that, he argued, directly caused the outbreak of the First World War.

Until 1860, artists working for engraving had to paint or draw directly on the surface of the block and the original artwork was actually destroyed by the engraver.

The official tartan for the Grant clan is the " 1860 sett ", and taken directly from the sett of Grant of Dalvey, which was declared official by Lord Strathspey, chief of the clan.

The proposals provided for, among other things, an extension of the Missouri Compromise line dividing slave from Free states to the Pacific Ocean, bringing his efforts directly in conflict with the 1860 Republican Platform and the personal views of President-elect Abraham Lincoln.

Between 1860 and 1866 the houses between Grabengasse and Schlossergassl were removed, with the result that the Graben led directly to Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, and became once more a proper street.

When the architect Benjamin Latrobe built the second US Senate chamber directly on top of first US Senate chamber, the Supreme Court took up residence in what is now referred to as the Old Supreme Court Chamber from 1810 through 1860.

A short time after the loop line was constructed a competing connection was built between Windsor and Richmond stations, the first train arriving at Windsor directly from Melbourne on 24 November 1860.

Charles Goodyear ( 1800 – 1860 ) is generally credited as the first to come up with the basic concept.

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

In 1860 Étienne Lenoir used an electric spark plug in his first internal combustion engine and is generally credited with the invention of the spark plug.

Although he did not graduate, he is credited with the class of 1860.

Other corps were very quickly formed in 1860 at five further schools: Eton, Harrow, Hurstpierpoint, Rugby and Tonbridge ; in the absence of further evidence it seems fair to say that all seven schools should be equally credited with seniority, with a given date of 1860.

Fernández Juncos wrote the current lyrics to " La Borinqueña " which originally was a danza written by Francisco Ramírez in 1860 ( sometimes credited to Félix Astol Artés in 1867 ).

During the 1860 presidential campaign, a widely credited report in the Nashville Patriot said that Rhett, along with William Lowndes Yancey and William Porcher Miles, was a leader of a Southern conspiracy to end the Union that began in May 1858 with a plan, hatched at the Southern Convention in Montgomery, Alabama, in May 1858, to split the Democratic Party along Northern and Southern lines.