Page 6: Historical Events In 1860

Oct 17   1st British Golf Open: Willie Park shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club   

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 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   

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Jan 02   William c mills: Museum curator (excavated ohio indian mounds)   

Jan 07   Emanuil mandlov: Composer   

Jan 08   Nancy jones: Us black missionary in africa   

Jan 11   Marie bashkirtseff: Russian/french painter/author (journal)   

Jan 12   Henry larkin: American baseball player    

Jan 17   Douglas hyde: President of ireland    

Jan 21   Karl staaff: Prime minister of sweden   

Jan 25   Charles curtis: (r) 31st us vp (1929-33)   

Jan 05   St john nepomucene neumann: 1st male us saint,    

Jan 12   Martinus j niewindt: Bishop on curacao (christened slaves),    

Jan 13   William mason: American politician (b. 1786)   

Jan 27   János bolyai: Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)   

Jan 30   Francesco antonio norberto pinto: Composer,    

Feb 09   Eduard w van dam van isselt: Dutch milt/liberal politician,    

Feb 20   Henry drummond: English banker/religious leader,   

Feb 25   Chauncey allen goodrich: American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)