1860s

Timeline
Decades:	1830s - 1840s - 1850s - 1860s - 1870s - 1880s - 1890s (stardates {{{stardates}}})
Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Events

1861

• Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States of America.
• The American Civil War begins.
• Rubidium and thallium are discovered by Humans for the first time.

1862

• Les Misérables is first published.

1863

• Indium is discovered by Humans for the first time.

1864

• Colonel Thaddius Riker is injured during the Battle of Pine Mountain. He is rescued by Quinn.
• The Battle of the Crater is fought. An ancestor of Geordi La Forge takes part in the conflict.

1865

• The American Civil War ends.

1867

• Spock is transported through time from 2267 to this year on Earth near Seattle.

1868

• On April 11, Edo Castle is surrendered to Imperial Japanese forces, ending the Tokugawa Shogunate.
• Karsid automated probes began observing Earth.

Births and Deaths

1860

21 October

• Billy Claiborne is born.

1861

10 October

• Fridtjof Nansen is born.

1862

date unknown

• Billy Clanton is born.

1863

17 January

• David Lloyd George is born.

26 July

• Sam Houston dies.

16 December

• George Santayana is born.

1864

24 November

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is born.

1865

15 April

• Abraham Lincoln dies.

13 June

• W.B. Yeats is born.

30 December

• Rudyard Kipling is born.

1866

21 September

• H.G. Wells is born.

1867

29 March

• Cy Young is born.

16 April

• Wilbur Wright is born.

7 November

• Marie Curie is born.

1869

2 October

• Mahatma Gandhi is born.

Stories

Title	Series	Date	Media	Notes	Image
Strange New Worlds 8 Shanghaied Sections 1-4	The Original Series	14 September 1863	short story
Strange New Worlds III A Q to Swear By "Pine Mountain"	The Next Generation	1864	short story
Ishmael Chapters 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12-14 & 16-18	The Original Series	1867	novel

Connections

• 1860s article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.