1860

Events from the year 1860 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: James Buchanan (D-PA)
* Vice President: John C. Breckinridge (D-KY)
* Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (MD)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: William Pennington (R-NJ)
* Congress: 36th
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 10 – The Pemberton Mill collapses in Lawrence, Massachusetts, killing 145 workers.
* February 22 – The New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 begins in Lynn, Massachusetts. The strike spreads throughout New England, and eventually involves 20,000 workers.
* February 26 – 1860 Wiyot Massacre: 80 to 250 Wiyot people are killed on Indian Island, near Eureka, California.
* February 27 – Abraham Lincoln gives his Cooper Union speech.
* March 6 – While campaigning for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln makes a speech defending the right to strike.
* March 9 – The first Japanese ambassadors to the United States arrive in San Francisco.
===April - June===
* April 3 – The Pony Express begins its first run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.
* May 1 – A Chondrite type meteorite falls to earth in Muskingum County, Ohio near the town of New Concord.
* May 6 – The Paiute War begins as Northern Paiutes raided Williams Station in Utah Territory.
* May 9 – The U.S. Constitutional Union Party holds its convention and nominates John Bell for President of the United States.
* May 12 – Paiute War: First Battle of Pyramid Lake: American vigilantes seek out the Paiutes and are soundly defeated. Disorganized and outnumbered, nearly all of the vigilantes are killed or wounded.
* May 18 – Abraham Lincoln is selected as the U.S. presidential candidate for the Republican Party.
* June 2 – Paiute War: Second Battle of Pyramid Lake begins: A well-organized force of militia and U.S. Army soldiers seek out the Paiutes and defeat them in the final battle of the war.
* June 4 – Paiute War: Second Battle of Pyramid Lake ends.
===July - September===
* August 1 – The Paiute War ends with an informal ceasefire.
* August 25 – The Stone's Prairie Riot takes place in Payson and Plainville, Illinois between the Republican Wide Awakes and armed Democratic supporters of Stephen A. Douglas.
* September 7 – The Lady Elgin is accidentally rammed and sunk in Lake Michigan; more than 400 drown.
===October - December===
* November 6 – U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
* December 18
** Senator John J. Crittenden proposes the so-called Crittenden Compromise hoping to resolve the U.S. secession crisis.
** Texas Rangers defeat a band of Comanches at the Battle of Pease River; Cynthia Ann Parker is recaptured and returned to her family after 24 years.
* December 20 – South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States.
* December 24 – South Carolina issues the "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union", analogous to the United States Declaration of Independence.
==Memoriam==
* January 5 – John Neumann, first United States bishop to be canonized (aged 48; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* January 13 – William Mason, politician (aged 73; Norwich, NY, USA)
* January 18 – John Nelson, lawyer (aged 68; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* February 25 – Chauncey A. Goodrich, lexicographer (aged 69; New Haven, CT, USA)
* April 6 – James Kirke Paulding, writer and United States Secretary of the Navy (aged 81; Hyde Park, NY, USA)
* May 9 – Samuel Griswold Goodrich, children's author (aged 66; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 10 – Theodore Parker, preacher, Transcendentalist and abolitionist (aged 49; Florence, Italy)
* May 21 – Phineas Gage, improbable head injury survivor (aged 36; San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA)
* May 31 – Peter V. Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (aged 76; Richmond, VA, USA)
* June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (aged 45; Marysville, CA, USA)
* July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (aged 59; New York City, NY, USA)
* September 12 – William Walker, filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua, executed (aged 36; Trujillo, Honduras)
* September 19 – Thomas D. Rice, actor and dancer (aged 52; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* September 29 – Chapin A. Harris, physician and dentist (aged 54; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* October 3 – Rembrandt Peale, portrait painter and museum keeper (aged 82; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* October 25 – John "Grizzly" Adams, mountain man and bear trainer (aged 48; Boston, MA, USA)
==External links==
* 1860 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 9