1860s facts for kids

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 most important events

• The Civil War in the United States

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)

Images for kids

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  Alfred Nobel invents dynamite in Sweden, patenting it in 1867

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