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U.S. territorial extent in 1860. April 3, 1860 – Pony Express begins. November 6 – 1860 United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln elected president and Hannibal Hamlin vice president with only 39% of the vote in a four-man race. December 18 – Crittenden Compromise fails. December 20 – President Buchanan fires his cabinet.
The 1860s (pronounced "eighteen-sixties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1860 and ended on December 31, 1869. The decade was noted for featuring numerous major societal shifts in the Americas .
May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784) June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815) July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (born 1800) September 12 – William Walker, filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua, executed (born 1824)
1860s in the United States by state or territory (65 C) 1860s disestablishments in the United States (51 C) 1860s establishments in the United States (66 C, 1 P)
Lost contested election May 18, 1860 Samuel G. Daily (R) Seated May 18, 1860 New York 31st: Silas M. Burroughs (R) Died June 3, 1860 Edwin R. Reynolds (R) Seated December 5, 1860 Missouri 1st: John R. Barret (D) Lost contested election June 8, 1860 William A. Howard (R) Seated June 8, 1860 Pennsylvania 8th: John Schwartz (ALD) Died June 20, 1860
1860 events in the United States by month (2 C) / 1860 disestablishments in the United States (7 C, 4 P) 1860 establishments in the United States (39 C, 7 P) C.
1834 – Slavery debates at Lane Theological Seminary are one of the first major public discussions of the topic. 1835 – Mexican President Santa Anna annuls the 1824 constitution, precipitating a civil war which spawns the Texas War for Independence. 1835 – Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America published.
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