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

College football is first played in 1869.

Emperor Maximilian being executed (1867), marking the end of the Second Mexican Empire
Thure de Thulstrup - Battle of Antietam
Political map of the world in 1860
Shown in the presidential booth of Ford's Theatre, from left to right, are assassin John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Clara Harris, and Henry Rathbone
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite in Sweden, patenting it in 1867
The signing of the First Geneva Convention by some of the major European powers in 1864
T. H. Huxley's famous debate in 1860 with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution

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