In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

Amazon preparing for a battle ( Queen Antiop or Armed Venus ), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. )

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.

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 ".

Francis A. Swan built a National School for 50 children, in 1860.

Frelinghuysen was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention from New Jersey and from 1861 to 1867 was Attorney General of New Jersey.

The Samuel J. Tilden House at 15 Gramercy Park South, which he owned from 1860 until his death, is now used by the National Arts Club.

In 1860 the American National Republican Convention included in their electoral platform, on which Abraham Lincoln stood for President, the following statement: "... We brand the recent re-opening of the African slave trade, under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial power, as a crime against humanity ".

File: Young Spartans National Gallery NG3860. jpg | Young Spartans Exercising, c. 1860, National Gallery, London

Richard Ellison's collection of 100 British watercolours was given by his widow in 1860 and 1873 ' to promote the foundation of the National Collection of Water Colour Paintings '.

The building, completed in 1860, was accepted by the Claiborne Parish Police Jury on July 20, 1861, at a cost of $ 12, 304. 36, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Pleasant Valley Wine Company, founded in 1860 and a mile southwest, was designated U. S. Bonded Winery No. 1 and has eight remarkable stone buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

One of the wealthiest towns in the state from 1840 to 1860, it has a rich stock of historic architecture: more than 90 percent of its buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places and its National Historic District encompasses nearly half its area.

Amongst his works may be mentioned Our National Defences ( 1860 ), War in Bulgaria, a Narrative of Personal Experience ( London, 1879 ), Clouds in the East ( London, 1876 ).

A total of ten National Women's Rights Conventions were held, the last in 1860.

In 1860, he was named a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, but did not attend.

* Philadelphia Athletics ( 1860 – 1876 ), played in the National Association from 1871 through 1875, and in the National League in 1876

At the 1860 Republican National Convention, he got 49 votes on the first ballot, but he had little support outside Ohio.

The Grand National Hunt Steeple Chase was held to the south west of the town in 1860, 1861 and 1863.

* Gauld, A., " Braid, James ( 1795 – 1860 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

* Peter H. Hansen, ‘ Le Blond, Elizabeth Alice Frances ( 1860 – 1934 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004 ; online edn, October 2006

* The National Association establishes the December annual meeting, a change from March, meeting twice during calendar 1860.

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

* 1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.

* On 18 October 1860 the first Convention of Peking formally ended the Second Opium War.

In 1860, the colony was extended with the Kowloon peninsula and in 1898, the Second Convention of Peking further expanded the colony with the 99 year lease of the New Territories.

In 1984, the governments of the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) concluded the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, under which the sovereignty of the leased territories, together with Hong Kong Island and Kowloon ( south of Boundary Street ) ceded under the Convention of Peking ( 1860 ), was transferred to the PRC on 1 July 1997.

Following the Opium War, Russia forced China to sign the Treaty of Aigun ( 1858 ) and Convention of Peking ( 1860 ), under which China lost to Russia all claims to all territories north of Heilongjiang ( Amur ) and east of Ussuri, including Sakhalin.

After the Xianfeng emperor and his entourage fled Beijing, the June 1858 Treaty of Tianjin was finally ratified by the emperor's brother, Yixin, the Prince Gong, in the Convention of Peking on 18 October 1860, bringing The Second Opium War to an end.

The Chinese were again defeated, and now forced to the terms of the 1858 Treaty of Tientsin and the 1860 Convention of Peking.

Lamar retired from the House in December 1860 to become a member in the Mississippi Secession Convention.

The part of Kowloon south of Boundary Street, together with Stonecutters Island, was ceded by Qing China to the United Kingdom under the Convention of Peking of 1860.

Although the harbingers of dissent within different factions of the woman suffrage movement may be seen in the National Woman's Rights Convention of 1860 ( the last national convention before the outbreak of the war, woman's rights activism largely ceased during the Civil War.

The Convention of Peking ended the lease, and ceded the land formally to the British on 24 October 1860.

* Beijing Convention ( 1860 )

Historically speaking, Kowloon Peninsula refers to the ceded territories of Kowloon in 1860 as part of the Convention of Peking, but geographically it covers the entire Kowloon south of the mountain ranges of Lion Rock, Kowloon Peak and other hills.

On 24 October 1860 Elgin signed the Convention of Beijing, which stipulated that China was to cede part of Kowloon Peninsula and Hong Kong in perpetuity to Britain.

South Manchuria Railway was built as a part of Chinese Eastern Railway in 1898-1903 by Imperial Russia according to Russian-Chinese convention and Convention of Peking 1860.

The island was ceded by the Qing Dynasty Emperor of China to Britain with Kowloon in 1860 through the Convention of Peking.

Allison was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President of the United States.

Despite not asking the return of territory, the Chinese did ask the USSR to formally ( publicly ) acknowledge that said border, established with the Treaty of Aigun ( 1858 ) and the Convention of Peking ( 1860 ), was a historic Russian injustice against China ; the Soviet government ignored the matter.