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.

* 1860 – Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States ( d. 1924 )

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 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

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

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

* 1860 – The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.

* 1860 – Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States ( d. 1936 )

With the creation of the United States Lighthouse Board in 1852, all U. S. lighthouses received Fresnel lenses by 1860.

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

Postage stamp collecting began at the same time that stamps were first issued, and by 1860 thousands of collectors and stamp dealers were appearing around the world as this new study and hobby spread across Europe, European colonies, the United States and other parts of the world.

By 1860 the total number of slaves reached almost four million, and the American Civil War, beginning in 1861, led to the end of slavery in the United States.

* 1860 – The Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom ) visits the United States.

The National Rifle Association ( NRA ) of the United Kingdom was founded in 1860 to raise the funds for an annual national rifle meeting " for the encouragement of Volunteer Rifle Corps, and the promotion of Rifle-shooting throughout Great Britain ".

* March 17 – Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States ( b. 1860 )

* February 8 – Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States ( b. 1860 )

* November 4 – Democrats gain control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since 1860.

* January 28 – George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1860 )

* George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1784 – 1860 ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The United States presidential election of 1860 was a quadrennial election held on November 6, 1860, for the office of President of the United States and the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.

The modern meaning of the flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the U. S. garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America.

* Corsican Guard, the papal militia at the time of the Papal States ( abolished in 1860 ).

To supplement his income from his medical practice, Mudd became a small scale tobacco grower, using five slaves according to the 1860 U. S. Slave Census .< ref >

Life expectancy was much higher in the U. S. ( because of better food, less disease, lighter work loads, and better medical care ) so the numbers grew rapidly by excesses of births over deaths, reaching 4 million by the 1860 Census.

The South's farms were not highly mechanized, but the value of farm implements and machinery in the 1860 Census was $ 81 million and was reduced by 40 % by 1870.

In the 1860 U. S. Census Putnam County had 9, 240 residents, with eighteen sawmills and three flour mills.

According to the 1860 US Census and Slave Schedules, the total population of the county was 10, 656.

In the 1860 U. S. Census, only 12 Mercer County families were listed as slave owners, with a combined total of 24 slaves.

The 1860 U. S. Census showed the newly created Carter County with a population of 1, 197 free persons and 20 slaves held by eight slave owners.

* Historical Census Browser, 1860 and 1870 US Census, Cobb Co., Georgia and Fulton Co., Georgia

The U. S. Federal Census of 1860 designated Port Ludlow as one of the three enumeration districts in Jefferson County, Washington Territory.

The Census Bureau estimates that during this period the number of persons that could not be categorized as white or black did not exceed 0. 25 % of the total population based on 1860 census data.

By the 1860 United States Census, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million.

The 1860 US Census shows there only 3, 450 white residents in the underpopulated county, and just 122 slaves.

The family lived in Henry County, Alabama ( 1860 Census ), before moving to Polk County, Texas ( 1870 Census ), and later to Cherokee County, Texas ( 1880 Census ).

* Pertaining to New York Commission Merchant Thomas Arnold Demill Listing Patchen Avenue, Eastern District of Brooklyn, New York 1860 U. S. Census

By using hachuring as a basis for his Karte des Österreichischen Kaiserstaates zur Übersicht der Dichtigkeit der Bevölkerung nach dem Census von 1857 ( Map of the Austrian imperial state as an overview of the population density after the 1857 census, 1860 ) and the map Die Ausdehnung der Slaven in der Türkei und den angrenzenden Gebieten ( Expansion of the Slavic populations in Turkey and adjacent territories, 1869 ) Petermann continued the representation of geological, climatological and ethnographical data that his teacher Heinrich Berghaus had begun two decades before.

He also published it in other cities as well: in Washington, D. C., between 1853 and 1857 ( during his tenure as Head of the U. S. Census ), continuing until 1860, then in Charleston, SC, 1861-1862.

The 1860 United States Census shows the family living in Creek Nation, Indian Lands, Arkansas.

According to the U. S. 1860 Census, one out of every four families in Virginia owned slaves.

The 1850 Census found a few families living there, while only two families were left on the island in 1860.

The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Eighth Census of the United States in 1860.

Before this Congress, the 1860 United States Census and resulting reapportionment changed the size of the House to 241 members.