1860s
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
Decades: | 1830s 1840s 1850s – 1860s – 1870s 1880s 1890s |
Years: | 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 |
Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 1860s was the decade that began on January 1, 1860 and ended on December 31, 1869.
The most important events
- The Civil War in the United States
Sports
College football is first played in 1869.
World leaders
- Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
- Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada)
- Emperor Napoleon III (Second French Empire)
- King William I, German Emperor (Germany)
- King Victor Emmanuel II (Italy)
- Pope Pius IX
- Emperor Alexander II (Russia)
- Queen Isabella II (Spain)
- Queen Victoria (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (United Kingdom)
- President James Buchanan (United States)
- President Abraham Lincoln (United States)
- President Andrew Johnson (United States)
- President Jefferson Davis (Confederate States of America)
- President Ulysses S. Grant (United States)
- Nasser-al-Din Shah of Qajar dynasty (Persia)
- Emperor Kōmei (Japan)
- Emperor Meiji (Japan)
- Emperor Xianfeng (China)
- Emperor Tongzhi (China)