Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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)
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 .
This page was last edited on 14 October 2023, at 19:06 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
December 5, 1859 – February 1, 1860: The election for the House speakership takes 44 ballots; April 3, 1860: Pony Express began its first run; April 23 – May 3, 1860: Democratic National Convention held in Charleston, South Carolina. [1] Unable to agree on a nominee, the delegates voted to reconvene in June. [2]
March 4, 1825 – Adams becomes the sixth president; Calhoun becomes the seventh vice president; 1825 – Erie Canal is finally completed 1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.
1860 events in the United States by month (2 C) / 1860 disestablishments in the United States (7 C, 4 P) ... 1860 in American law (4 C, 1 P) N. 1860 American novels ...
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)