Page 6: Historical Events In 1860
Thursday, 18 June 2026
Oct 17 Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer. 


Oct 17 inaugural pro golf tournament held in Scotland. 


Oct 18 The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty. 


Oct 19 Affie Jarvis, cricketer (Australian WK of the late 19th century) 


Oct 24 Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80 


Oct 31 Johan Nathan, murderer, hanged. 


Oct 31 Juliette Gordon Low, activist/founder (Girl Scouts of America) 


Nov 05 Carl Binder, composer, dies at 43 


Nov 06 Abraham Lincoln (R-Ill-Rep) elected 16th President 


Nov 06 Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th pres 


Nov 11 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina. 


Nov 14 Feliks Ostrowski, composer, dies at 58. 


Nov 16 Edmund Schuecker, composer. 


Nov 18 Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland (1919-20) 


Nov 23 Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921). 


Nov 23 With the "Banking Panic" of 1857 stretching into another decade and showing few signs of lifting, the New York Clearing House moved to offer help on this day, the Clearing House handed out its inaugural loan, issuing $7.375 million worth of certificates to the nation's ailing banks. 


Nov 28 Heinrich FL Rellstab, German music theorist, dies 


Nov 29 Hans Haym, composer 


Dec 02 C T Studd, cricketer (brother of G B, five Tests for England). 


Dec 07 Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43 


Dec 15 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel 1903) 


Dec 17 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County. 


Dec 18 Edward Alexander MacDowell, US, composer (Indian Suite) 


Dec 20 SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede. 


Dec 20 SC votes 169-0 for Ordinance of Secession, inaugural state to secede. 


Dec 20 South Carolina secedes from the American Union, and joined the Confederacy. 


Dec 21 Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah) 


Dec 23 Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You and I). 


Dec 24 Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in NYC 


Dec 26 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt). 


Dec 26 Maiden voyage of inaugural steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt). 


Dec 28 Alexander von Fielitz, composer 


Dec 28 Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57. 


Dec 29 The inaugural British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched 


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