1860 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1860 in the United Kingdom.

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May - Queen Victoria becomes the first British monarch to be photographed. The photographer was John Jabez Edwin Mayall. ^[1]
22 August - the British navy assist the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi cross from Sicily to the Italian mainland.
October - John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for source of the Nile.
5 October - Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year.
18 October - Second Opium War: Lord Elgin ordered his forces to set fire to the huge complex of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, known as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness, which burned to the ground.
18 October - The first Convention of Peking formally ended the Second Opium War.
1 December - Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.
29 December - The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, the HMS Warrior is launched.