Napoleon Bonaparte was declared the Emperor of France by the French Senate.
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The Crusaders lost control of the city of Acre, the Kingdom of Jerusalem's last bastion, after a fourteen-day siege.
The US Congress passed Selective Service Act.
Northern Somalia declared its independence, becoming the unrecognized de facto Republic of Somaliland.
The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
John Bellingham was sentenced to death for assassinating Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister.
