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)^[1]

Deaths

• 9 January – Karl Rudolf Brommy, German naval officer (born 1804)
• 29 January – Ernst Moritz Arndt, historian, writer and poet (born 1769)
• 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)