1860

Events

First running of the Queen's Plate, North America's oldest thoroughbred horse race
April 3 - first run of the Pony Express
Victor Emmanuel, king of Sardinia seizes the whole of the Papal States besides Rome (see Vatican City) and unites Italy
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen discovers Cesium and Rubidium (see Discovery of the chemical elements)
November - Abraham Lincoln defeats John C. Breckinridge in the U.S. presidential election
February 29 - Herman Hollerith invents the first electric tabulating machine.
December 26 - Confederate diplomatic envoys James Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and Great Britain
December 29 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched.

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