1860
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- This article is a date listing important events for the year 1860.
Events
- June 1 – The 1860 federal census started and and lasting five months. It contained the last official count of enslaved African Americans in the United States. Albemarle, with Charlottesville as its county seat, had a population of roughly 14,000 slaves and 12,000 whites.[1]
- November 6 – The 1860 United States presidential election in Virginia took place.
Births
- May 28 – Less than a year after Paul Goodloe McIntire was born in Charlottesville, Va., the Civil War broke out.