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  • Italy
    Sunday Jan 1, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Expedition of the Thousand

    Italy
    Sunday Jan 1, 1860

    The Expedition of the Thousand was an event of the Italian Risorgimento that took place in 1860. A corps of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto, near Genoa and landed in Marsala, Sicily, in order to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, ruled by the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.Milan, Italy.




  • France
    1860
    Unification of Italy

    France was a potential ally with Italy

    France
    1860

    France was a potential ally, and the patriots realized they had to focus all their attention on expelling Austria first, with a willingness to give the French whatever they wanted in return for essential military intervention.




  • Italy
    1860
    Unification of Italy

    Five states remained in Italy

    Italy
    1860

    By early 1860, only five states remained in Italy—the Austrians in Venetia, the Papal States, the new expanded Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and San Marino.




  • London, England
    1860
    The palace of Westminster England

    Most of the work had been carried out

    London, England
    1860

    Although most of the work had been carried out by 1860, construction was not finished until a decade afterwards.




  • U.S.
    Saturday Jan 21, 1860
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln told a group of political allies that he would accept the nomination if offered

    U.S.
    Saturday Jan 21, 1860

    In January 1860, Lincoln told a group of political allies that he would accept the nomination if offered, and in the following months several local papers endorsed his candidacy.




  • Cooper Union, New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Feb 28, 1860
    Abraham Lincoln

    Cooper Union speech

    Cooper Union, New York, U.S.
    Tuesday Feb 28, 1860

    On February 27, 1860, powerful New York Republicans invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union, in which he argued that the Founding Fathers had little use for popular sovereignty and had repeatedly sought to restrict slavery. He insisted that morality required opposition to slavery, and rejected any "groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong". Many in the audience thought he appeared awkward and even ugly. But Lincoln demonstrated intellectual leadership that brought him into contention. Journalist Noah Brooks reported, "No man ever before made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience".




  • Cagliari, Metropolitan CityCagliari, Italy
    1860
    Unification of Italy

    Sardinia annexed Lombardy from Austria

    Cagliari, Metropolitan CityCagliari, Italy
    1860

    Sardinia annexed Lombardy from Austria; it later occupied and annexed the United Provinces of Central Italy, consisting of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy of Parma, the Duchy of Modena and Reggio and the Papal Legations on 22 March 1860.


  • Chambéry, Savoie, France
    Saturday Mar 24, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Sardinia handed Savoy and Nice over to France

    Chambéry, Savoie, France
    Saturday Mar 24, 1860

    Sardinia handed Savoy and Nice over to France at the Treaty of Turin, a decision that was the consequence of the Plombières Agreement, on 24 March 1860, an event that caused the Niçard exodus, which was the emigration of a quarter of the Niçard Italians to Italy.


  • Messina and Palermo
    Apr, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Insurrections began in Messina and Palermo

    Messina and Palermo
    Apr, 1860

    In April 1860, separate insurrections began in Messina and Palermo in Sicily, both of which had demonstrated a history of opposing Neapolitan rule. These rebellions were easily suppressed by loyal troops.


  • Italy
    Sunday May 6, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Garibaldi landed near Marsala on the west coast of Sicily

    Italy
    Sunday May 6, 1860

    On 6 May 1860, Garibaldi and his cadre of about a thousand Italian volunteers, steamed from Quarto near Genoa, and, after a stop in Talamone on 11 May, landed near Marsala on the west coast of Sicily.


  • Decatur, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday May 10, 1860
    Abraham Lincoln

    Illinois Republican State Convention

    Decatur, Illinois, U.S.
    Thursday May 10, 1860

    On May 9–10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur. Lincoln's followers organized a campaign team led by David Davis, Norman Judd, Leonard Swett, and Jesse DuBois, and Lincoln received his first endorsement.


  • Italy
    Monday May 14, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Garibaldi proclaimed himself dictator of Sicily

    Italy
    Monday May 14, 1860

    On 14 May Garibaldi proclaimed himself dictator of Sicily, in the name of Victor Emmanuel. After waging various successful but hard-fought battles, Garibaldi advanced upon the Sicilian capital of Palermo, announcing his arrival by beacon-fires kindled at night.


  • Calatafimi-Segesta, Trapani, Italy
    Tuesday May 15, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Battle of Calatafimi

    Calatafimi-Segesta, Trapani, Italy
    Tuesday May 15, 1860

    The Battle of Calatafimi was fought on the 15 May 1860 between Giuseppe Garibaldi's volunteers and the troops of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies at Calatafimi, Sicily, as part of the Expedition of the Thousand.


  • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    Saturday May 19, 1860
    Abraham Lincoln

    Republican National Convention in Chicago

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    Saturday May 19, 1860

    On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as Seward and Chase. A former Democrat, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, was nominated for vice president to balance the ticket. Lincoln's success depended on his campaign team, his reputation as a moderate on the slavery issue, and his strong support for internal improvements and the tariff.


  • Semarang, Dutch East Indies (Present-Day Indonesia)
    Monday May 21, 1860
    Willem Einthoven

    Birth

    Semarang, Dutch East Indies (Present-Day Indonesia)
    Monday May 21, 1860

    Willem Einthoven was born in Semarang on Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the son of Louise Marie Mathilde Caroline (de Vogel) and Jacob Einthoven.


  • Palermo
    Sunday May 27, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Garibaldi's force laid siege to the Porta Termini of Palermo

    Palermo
    Sunday May 27, 1860

    On 27 May the force laid siege to the Porta Termini of Palermo, while a mass uprising of street and barricade fighting broke out within the city.


  • Milan, Italy
    Jun, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Third Italian War of Independence

    Milan, Italy
    Jun, 1860

    The Third Italian War of Independence was a war between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire fought between June and August 1866. The conflict paralleled the Austro-Prussian War and resulted in Austria conceding the region of Venetia to France, which were later annexed by Italy after a plebiscite. Italy's acquisition of this wealthy and populous territory represented a major step in the process of Italian unification.


  • Massachusetts, U.S.
    1860
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Alfred Du Bois immigrated to the United States

    Massachusetts, U.S.
    1860

    Sometime before 1860, Alfred Du Bois immigrated to the United States, settling in Massachusetts.


  • Texas, U.S.
    1860
    Juneteenth

    More than 1,000 resided in both Galveston and Houston

    Texas, U.S.
    1860

    Although most lived in rural areas, more than 1,000 resided in both Galveston and Houston by 1860, with several hundred in other large towns. More isolated geographically, planters and other slaveholders had migrated into Texas from eastern states to escape the fighting, and many brought enslaved people with them, increasing by the thousands the enslaved population in the state at the end of the Civil War.


  • Italy
    Tuesday Aug 21, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Garibaldi proceeded to the mainland

    Italy
    Tuesday Aug 21, 1860

    Garibaldi proceeded to the mainland, crossing the Strait of Messina with the Neapolitan fleet at hand. The garrison at Reggio Calabria promptly surrendered. As he marched northward, the populace everywhere hailed him, and military resistance faded: on 18 and 21 August, the people of Basilicata and Apulia, two regions of the Kingdom of Naples, independently declared their annexation to the Kingdom of Italy.


  • Italy
    Friday Aug 31, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Garibaldi was at Cosenza

    Italy
    Friday Aug 31, 1860

    At the end of August, Garibaldi was at Cosenza, and, on 5 September, at Eboli, near Salerno. Meanwhile, Naples had declared a state of siege, and on 6 September the king gathered the 4,000 troops still faithful to him and retreated over the Volturno river.


  • Karlsruhe, Germany
    Sep, 1860
    Dmitri Mendeleev

    The chemistry congress

    Karlsruhe, Germany
    Sep, 1860

    In September 1860, Mendeleev attended an international chemistry congress that was held to discuss critical issues as atomic weights, chemical symbols, and chemical formulas, where he met many of Europe’s leading chemists. In later years, that congress was especially remembered by Mendeleev due to an important paper circulated to the Italian chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro that explained the notion of atomic weights.


  • Italy
    Tuesday Oct 9, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Victor Emmanuel arrived and took command

    Italy
    Tuesday Oct 9, 1860

    On 9 October, Victor Emmanuel arrived and took command. There was no longer a papal army to oppose him, and the march southward proceeded unopposed.


  • Italy
    Oct, 1860
    Unification of Italy

    Garibaldi had easily taken the capital

    Italy
    Oct, 1860

    Though Garibaldi had easily taken the capital, the Neapolitan army had not joined the rebellion en masse, holding firm along the Volturno River. Garibaldi's irregular bands of about 25,000 men could not drive away the king or take the fortresses of Capua and Gaeta without the help of the Sardinian army.


  • China
    Wednesday Oct 24, 1860
    Xinhai Revolution

    The Second Opium War

    China
    Wednesday Oct 24, 1860

    Following defeat in the Second Opium War in 1860, the Qing tried to modernize by adopting certain Western technologies through the Self-Strengthening Movement from 1861.


  • U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1860
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln was elected the 16th president

    U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1860

    On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president. He was the first Republican president and his victory was entirely due to his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states. Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes, or 39.8% of the total in a four-way race, carrying the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon. His victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 votes to 123 for his opponents.


  • U.S.
    1860
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln and the Republicans rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise

    U.S.
    1860

    Attempts at compromise followed but Lincoln and the Republicans rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise as contrary to the Party's platform of free-soil in the territories. Lincoln said, "I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right."


  • South Carolina, United States
    Thursday Dec 20, 1860
    USA civil war

    South Carolina was separated from the United States

    South Carolina, United States
    Thursday Dec 20, 1860

    The election of Lincoln provoked the legislature of South Carolina to call a state convention to consider secession. Before the war, South Carolina did more than any other Southern state to advance the notion that a state had the right to nullify federal laws, and even to secede from the United States. The convention unanimously voted to secede on December 20, 1860, and adopted a secession declaration.


  • U.S.
    Friday Dec 21, 1860
    Abraham Lincoln

    South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession

    U.S.
    Friday Dec 21, 1860

    On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession.


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