South Carolina seceded from the United States of America.
At 11 years old, Grace Bedell wrote to Abraham Lincoln, saying he should grow a beard.
James Wallace Black took the USA's first aerial photo in Boston from a hot air balloon.
In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeated Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
The mail delivery system known as the Pony Express started.
English Novelist George Eliot completed her famous book called 'The Mill on the Floss.'
