Events
- January - First issue of the Cornhill Magazine
- June 9 - Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.
- June 30 - 1860 Oxford evolution debate: Samuel Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley debate the theories of Charles Darwin at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky returns to St Petersburg.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon meets her future husband John Maxwell.
- Alexander Bain is appointed to the chair of logic and English literature at the University of Aberdeen.
- The newspaper Univers religieux is suppressed by the French government.
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