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
• 25 March – Friedrich Naumann, German politician
• 4 May – Hans Georg Friedrich Groß, German balloonist and airship constructor
• 20 May – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 4 June – Friedrich Schmidt-Ott, German lawyer, scientific organizer, and science policymaker
• 5 July – Albert Döderlein, German obstetrician and gynecologist
• 24 July – Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Prussian princess
• 25 July – Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Prussian princess
• 13 September – Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf, German general
• 28 October – Hugo Preuß, German lawyer and liberal politician
• 24 November — Ulrike Henschke, German women's right activist and education reformer

Deaths

• 9 January – Karl Rudolf Brommy, German naval officer
• 29 January – Ernst Moritz Arndt, historian, writer and poet
• 15 April – Christine Genast, actress, singer and pianist
• 14 May – Ludwig Bechstein, writer
• 18 June – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, diplomat and military writer
• 21 September – Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher
• 25 November – Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg, nobleman, explorer and writer
• 21 December – Peter Friedhofen, German Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Brothers of Mercy of Mary Help of Christians