The Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines had been advocating such powers since 1860, and the passage of the Act gave the colony of Victoria a wide suite of powers over Aboriginal and ' half-caste ' persons, including the forcible removal of children, especially ' at risk ' girls.

He published in 1860, Results of the Magnetical, Nautical and Meteorological Observations from March 1858 to February 1859, and did a large amount of travelling in Victoria in connection with his magnetic survey of the colony.

The opening, in November 1863, of the railway from Cape Town to Wellington, and the construction in 1860 of the great breakwater in Table Bay, long needed on that perilous coast, marked the beginning in the colony of public works on a large scale.

In 1856, the then Governor of South Australia, Richard Graves MacDonnell, suggested to the Government of South Australia that they and the other colonies should consider establishing a court of appeal which would hear appeals from the Supreme Courts in each colony, and in 1860 the Parliament of South Australia passed legislation encouraging MacDonnell to put forward the idea to his colleagues in the other colonies.

In 1860 the island became part of the new Kingdom of Italy, but the new Italian government limited its activities there to building a penal colony.

In 1860 the Marqués del Duero founded an agricultural colony, now the heart of San Pedro Alcántara.

He served as Premier of the colony from 1857 to 1860 and again from 1864.

The Nauvoo colony had financial difficulties and was forced to disband in 1860.

In 1860, when the Nauvoo colony went bankrupt, many members of the community moved to the new site in Iowa.

The colony near what became Corning, Iowa was granted a charter of incorporation by the state of Iowa in 1860.

* The plants indigenous to the colony of Victoria, Volume 1 ( 1860 – 1862 )

This diverged from the Port line at a junction in the north parklands, and was extended to Kapunda in 1860, and Burra by 1870, both important copper mining towns in the early days of the colony.

It was the very first road built in Kowloon, after the land was ceded by the then Qing Dynasty government to the United Kingdom and made part of the crown colony in 1860.

In 1860 the Central Academy was upgraded and renamed Prince of Wales College ( PWC ) in honour of a visit to the colony that year by the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII.

In 1860 the declining colony was incorporated into the expanding city of Dallas.

The Comptoir d ' Escompte de Paris opened a branch in Calcutta in 1860, and another in Bombay in 1862 ; branches in Madras and Pondicherry, then a French colony, followed.

The colony of Hong Kong was basically made up of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon which were ceded to Britain respectively in 1842 and 1860, and the New Territories, which unlike the first two regions was only leased to the United Kingdom for a 99-year term beginning from 1898.

Kelmscott was one of the very early towns established in the Swan River Colony and was named after Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, the birthplace of the first Anglican clergyman in the colony, Thomas Hobbes Scott ( 1783 – 1860 )< sup ></ sup >

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.