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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1860. 1860 ( MDCCCLX) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1860th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 860th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year ...
PE 2846 .H57 1994. The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, often abbreviated HDAS, is a dictionary of American slang. The first two volumes, Volume 1, A – G (1994), and Volume 2, H – O (1997), were published by Random House, and the work then was known as the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, sometimes abbreviated ...
The word is from Old English godsibb, from god and sibb, the term for the godparents of one's child or the parents of one's godchild, generally very close friends. In the 16th century, the word assumed the meaning of a person, mostly a woman, one who delights in idle talk, a newsmonger, a tattler. [2]
He was born at St John's Wood in 1819 and died at Torquay in Devon in 1891, having played some club cricket in the county during the 1860s. Two uncles, John and Henry Bentley, had both played for early Middlesex sides. [5] ^ The uncle of John Berry, George Berry played four first-class matches for early Yorkshire county sides between 1845 and ...
Henry Campbell Black. Henry Campbell Black (October 17, 1860 – March 19, 1927) was the founder of Black's Law Dictionary, the definitive legal dictionary first published in 1891. Born in Ossining, New York, he was also the editor of The Constitutional Review from 1917 until his death in 1927.
The Great Western Railway was an early and enthusiastic adopter, and began to transport milk into London from Maidenhead in 1860, despite much criticism. By 1900, the company was transporting over 25 million imperial gallons (110 million litres; 30 million US gallons) annually.
The English headquarters for the game is now in Cheltenham. A game of croquet being played at Eglinton Castle , North Ayrshire, in the early 1860s The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations , which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl ...
