8th » Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
10th » The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee known as Sewanee, Tennessee.
17th » First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the 'British Open').
18th » The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an Unequal Treaties (China) or unequal treaty.
26th » Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
Famous Birthdays on October in 1860
12th » Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (d. 1930)
28th » Jigoro Kano, Japanese martial artist (d. 1938)
31st » Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (d. 1927)