Events from the year 1860 in Germany.
Incumbents King of Bavaria – Maximilian II King of Hanover – George V King of Prussia – Frederick William IV King of Saxony – John King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I
Events 17 May – The sports club TSV 1860 Munich is founded in the Bavarian capital of Munich 3 September – The Karlsruhe Congress of chemists begins
Undated Cologne Zoological Garden is opened. Erlenmeyer flask is created by Emil Erlenmeyer.
Births 14 February – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (died 1954) 25 March – Friedrich Naumann, German politician (died 1919) 4 May – Hans Georg Friedrich Groß, German balloonist and airship constructor (died 1924) 20 May – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1917) 4 June – Friedrich Schmidt-Ott, German lawyer, scientific organizer, and science policymaker (died (1956) 5 July – Albert Döderlein, German obstetrician and gynecologist (died 1941) 24 July – Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Prussian princess (died 1919) 25 July – Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess (died 1917) 13 September – Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf, German general (died 1936) 28 October – Hugo Preuß, German lawyer and liberal politician (died 1925) 24 November — Ulrike Henschke, German women's right activist and education reformer (died 1897)
Deaths 9 January – Karl Rudolf Brommy, German naval officer (born 1804) 29 January – Ernst Moritz Arndt, historian, writer and poet (born 1769) 15 April – Christine Genast, actress, singer and pianist (born 1798) 14 May – Ludwig Bechstein, writer (born 1801) 18 June – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, diplomat and military writer (born 1783) 21 September – Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (born 1788) 25 November – Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg, nobleman, explorer and writer (born 1797) 21 December – Peter Friedhofen, German Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help of Christians (born 1819)
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