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.

In 1854, he was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives for Ohio's thirteenth district where he was the Republican candidate for Speaker in the long contest of 1859 – 60 and served as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means from 1860 to 1861.

The first township meeting was held in 1860 and the voters elected a chairman of the board, two supervisors, a justice of the peace and an assessor.

Blees ( 1860 – 1906 ), Prussian-born educator, businessman, and philanthropist ; and to Theodore Gary ( 1854 – 1952 ), utilities magnate, first chairman Mo.

On 6 August 1860 the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway ( A & B ), with the 3rd Duke ( then still Marquess of Chandos ) as chairman and Sir Harry Verney as deputy chairman, was incorporated by Act of Parliament with the object of connecting the Buckinghamshire Railway ( by now operated by the LNWR ) to Aylesbury.

Slidell had been appointed as a negotiator by President Polk at the end of the Mexican War, and Mason had been chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1847 to 1860.

Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge ( 1860 – November 11, 1932 ) was a businessman and promoter of patent fiberboard, and the first chairman of the interstate agency known then as the Port of New York Authority.

In 1860, he was chairman of the House “ Committee of Thirty-three ,” consisting of one member from each state, and appointed to consider the condition of the nation and, if possible, to devise some scheme for reconciling the North and the South.

He was a member of the Volksraad of the Orange Free State, chairman of the Joint Commission for Administering the Government in 1855 and served as Acting State President in 1859 – 1860 and again in 1863 – 1864.

For twenty-five consecutive years he was chairman of the Atchison County Republican Central Committee ; was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1868 to 1884, and secretary of the committee during the last four years of that period ; served as a delegate to the first Republican Convention in 1860, and was a member of the 1860, 1868, 1872, and 1880 Republican National Conventions ; was a member of one of the vice-presidents of the United States Centennial commission ; was one of the founders of the Kansas Historical Society, of which he was president in 1878 ; was president the same year of the Editors ' and Publishers ' Association ; and from 1878 to the time of his death was one of the board of managers of the Leavenworth branch of the National Soldiers ' Home.

In 1860, Keyes was the chairman of the Vermont delegation for the Democratic National Convention.

As a Republican Party leader, Steele campaigned actively for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and was himself elected to the California State Assembly in 1867, where he served as chairman of the judiciary committee.

On July 1, 1860, a town council was installed in Adrano, and don Lorenzo Ciancio was made chairman.

He was elected assistant clerk of the first house of representatives in the Territory in 1855 ; county clerk and register of deeds 1855-1857 ; studied law ; admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Tecumseh ; justice of the peace 1857 ; county attorney of Shawnee County 1858-1860 ; postmaster of Tecumseh 1858-1859 ; deputy United States attorney 1859-1861 ; reporter of the State supreme court 1860 ; moved to Topeka and practiced law in 1861 ; member, State house of representatives 1871-1875 ; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1876 and for the United States Senate in 1877 ; district judge 1883-1885 ; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fiftieth Congress ; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1888 ; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on January 25, 1893, to fill the remainder of the term left vacant by the death of Preston B. Plumb ; served from March 4, 1893, to March 3, 1895 ; chairman, Committee on Railroads ( Fifty-third Congress ); clerk of the Supreme Court of Kansas 1897-1899.

Ward was chosen as a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention and was the chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1866 to 1868.

On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.

* 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

In 1860, he became editor of Vanity Fair, a humorous New York weekly, which proved a failure.

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 ).

In March 1860, Douglass ' youngest daughter Annie died in Rochester, New York, while he was still in England.

* 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

The Kowloon Peninsula to the south of Boundary Street and the New Territories to the north of Hong Kong Island were added to Colonial Hong Kong in 1860 and 1898 respectively.

* Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860 – 1914.

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

* 1773 – Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer and soldier, 6th Governor of New South Wales ( d. 1860 )

He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Terre Haute, Indiana from 1860 to 1865 and of the New England Church in New York City in 1865-1869.

In the election of 1860, he voted for the fusion ticket in New York which was opposed to Abraham Lincoln, but he could not approve of President Buchanan's course in dealing with secession and eventually supported Lincoln.

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

Sir Charles Barry conceived the winning design for the New Houses of Parliament and supervised its construction until his death in 1860.

* Friedrich Engels, “ On Rifled Cannon ," articles from the New York Tribune, April, May and June, 1860, reprinted in Military Affairs 21, no.

* 1860 – James Allan, New Zealand rugby player ( d. 1934 )

Gray managed to negotiate a 5 % royalty with Appleton's of New York, who got their edition out in mid January 1860, and the other two withdrew.

* View online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library On the Origin of Species 1860 American edition, D Appleton and Company, New York, with front insert by H. E. Barker, Lincolniana.

In February 1860, he went to England for the New York Illustrated News to depict one of the major sporting events of the era, the prize fight between the American John C. Heenan and the English Thomas Sayers sponsored by George Wilkes, publisher of Wilkes ' Spirit of the Times.

* July 23 – Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer and Governor of New South Wales ( d. 1860 )

They safely reached the home of David and Martha Wright in Auburn, New York on December 28, 1860.

Between 1860 and 1920, the economy changed from " agricultural to industrial to financial " and New York maintained its leadership position despite these changes, according to historian Thomas Kessner.

The first known baseball game between two named black teams was held on September 28, 1860, at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey.