* 1860 – South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.

Since 1809, the Grand Duchy had benefited from a customs organization, an independent domestic state budget, its own currency ( Finnish markka, since 1860 ) and the industrial progress during 1860 – 1916.

* Coifman, Victoria Bomba, " History of the Wolof state of Jolof until 1860 including comparative data from the Wolof state of Walo ", p 276, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969

Lady in litter being carried by her slaves, São Paulo ( state ) | province of São Paulo in Brazil, ca. 1860.

Later the area became the central part of the Two Sicilies under the Bourbons, until the Italian unification of 1860 when it became part of the new state Italy.

Under the act, each eligible state received a total of of federal land, either within or contiguous to its boundaries, for each member of congress the state had as of the census of 1860.

* Socrate Polara ( 1800 – 1860 ) ( Italy ), founded the first dedicated ophthalmology clinic in Sicily in 1829 entirely as a philanthropic endeavor ; later appointed as the first director of the ophthalmology department at the Grand Hospital of Palermo, Sicily ( Italy ) in 1831 after the Sicilian government became convinced of the importance of state support for the specialization.

* Temple Lea Houston, 1860 – 1905 ( named after Margaret's father ) ( state senator of Texas legislature, 1885 – 1888 )

Italian patriot and general Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was born in the neighbouring Nice ( then part of Sardinian state ), started his Expedition of the Thousand on the evening of 5 May 1860 from a rock in Quarto, a quarter of Genoa.

A map commissioned in the 1860s and distributed by the United States Army for the benefit of wounded troops indicates that, based on data from the 1860 national census, 80. 9 % of the population of Wharton County was enslaved, representing the highest portion of slaves in a single county in the state of Texas.

From 1860 to 1896, the state of Texas claimed an area known as Greer County, Texas, which included present-day Greer County along with neighboring areas.

Born in January 1860 in Topeka, Kansas Territory prior to the arrival of statehood in January 1861, Vice President Curtis is notable as an Executive Branch officer born in a territory rather than state of the Union.

Its county seat of Warrenton became a center of commerce and was one of the wealthiest towns in the state from 1840 to 1860.

The first mayor of Salem was appointed or elected just after the Missouri state legislature passed the laws relating to village government in 1860.

In 1860 slaves made up 25 percent or more of the county's population, a higher percentage than in most parts of the state.

Magoffin County is a county located in the U. S. state of Kentucky which was formed from parts of Floyd, Johnson, and Morgan Counties and officially created on 22 February 1860.

In 1860, Dade County seceded from not only the state of Georgia, but also from the United States.

Legend has it that in 1860, the people of Dade County were so impatient on their state to secede from the Union, they simply seceded by themselves.

Tallapoosa, incorporated in 1860, is located in Haralson County, in northwest Georgia, about west of Atlanta, just north of Interstate 20 and east of the Alabama state line.

Owen became the first state geologist of three states: Kentucky ( 1854 – 57 ), Arkansas ( 1857 – 59 ), and Indiana ( 1850 – 1860 ).

On February 22, 1860, Grayson was recognized as an incorporated city by the state of Kentucky.

Due to the reorganisation of the Hamburg building authorities he gave up his position as a consultant of the Baudeputation in 1860, and moved with his family to London, including his three young sons – William Heerlein Lindley ( born 1853 ), Robert Searles Lindley ( born 1854 ) and Joseph Lindley ( born 1859 ).

Broughton Hall is a Gothic house at Yew Tree Lane West Derby, Liverpool, England, built in 1860 for Gustavus C. Schaube, a Liverpool merchant originating from Hamburg.

Hamburg and Leverkusen both exited Champions League at the first group stage, 1860 Munich even did not make the group stage at all by losing in the third qualifying round against Leeds United.

South Carolina adopted an ordinance of secession on December 20, 1860, and Mississippi did so on January 9, 1861.

In 1860, Belgium formally adopted the song and music as its national anthem, although the then prime minister, Charles Rogier edited out lyrics attacking the Dutch Prince of Orange.

Constitutional amendments proposed by Buenos Aires were adopted in 1860 but the settlement was short-lived, and further difficulties culminated in civil war.

European explorers had adopted the name by 1860 and reported that it was its Swahili name, with Kilimanjaro breaking into Kilima ( Swahili for " hill, little mountain ") and Njaro, whose supposed origin varies according to the theories — according to some it is an ancient Swahili word for white or for shining, or for the non-Swahili origin, a word from the Kichagga language, the word jaro meaning " caravan ".

** Comte Alexandre Antoine Colonna-Walewski, ( recognized 1844 and adopted by Walewski in 1860 ); has numerous descendants living today.

The second was adopted in 1860, when the Nicaraguan flag replaced the Union Flag in the canton.

The college was granted new statutes in 1860 and adopted its current name.

The candlepower was a photometric unit defined in the English Metropolitan Gas Act 1860 and adopted at the International Electrotechnical Conference of 1883.

On December 20, 1860, shortly after Abraham Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860, South Carolina adopted an ordinance declaring its secession from the United States of America and by February 1861, six more Southern states had adopted similar ordinances of secession.

Collis Huntington was the adopted father of Clara Elizabeth Prentice, born in Sacramento, in 1860.

Adventists who had adopted the " conditional immortality " views of Charles F. Hudson and George Storrs formed the Advent Christian Association in Salem, Massachusetts in 1860.

In April 1860, impatient for Congress to act, a convention of thirty-one delegates met in Tucson and adopted a constitution for a provisional territorial government of the area south of 34 degrees north.

The flag of Ecuador, which consists of horizontal bands of yellow ( double width ), blue and red, was first adopted on September 26, 1860.

* 1860: First ADA constitution and bylaws are adopted.

In 1860 a portion of this group moved to Crimea, adopted baptism by immersion and became known as the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren.

In 1911, the team adopted the familiar lion to their crest and in 1919 was re-named TSV München 1860.

Their report was published on 7 February 1860 ; and, amongst others, proposed several options for a ring of defences around London, none of which were adopted, although elements were used in the later London Defence Scheme.

By 1860, the glengarry without a diced border and usually with a feather had been adopted by pipers in all regiments except the 42nd ( Black Watch ), whose pipers wore the Full Dress feather bonnet.

In 1860 the class officially became the Wenlock Olympian Society ; Dr Brookes adopted some athletics events from the 1859 Athens Games and added them to the programme of the Olympian Games.

Later in life I devoted my time, when best I could, to nursing as a business, serving under different doctors for a period of eight years ( from 1852 to 1860 ); most of the time at my adopted home in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

The October Diploma was a constitution of the Austrian Empire adopted by Habsburg Emperor Franz Joseph on October 20, 1860.