What Happened In August 1860 - Historical Events 1860 August

Historical Events for August, 1860

3rd » The New Zealand Wars named Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
5th » Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.

3rd » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer (d. 1935)
7th » Alan Leo, English astrologer and author (d. 1917)
10th » Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist (d. 1936)
11th » Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player (d. 1939)
12th » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (d. 1907)
13th » Annie Oakley, American target shooter (d. 1926)
15th » Henrietta Vinton Davis, American actress and playwright (d. 1941)
15th » Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States (d. 1924)
16th » Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, English-Scottish cricketer (d. 1938)
16th » Jules Laforgue, Uruguayan-French poet (d. 1887)
20th » Raymond Poincaré, French politician, 10th President of France (d. 1934)
22nd » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor, created the Nipkow disk (d. 1940)
22nd » Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (d. 1940)
22nd » Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (d. 1917)
24th » David Bowman (Australian politician) e.g David Bowman, Australian politician (d. 1916)
31st » Alfred Grütter, Swiss target shooter (d. 1937)

14th » André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)