1860s

English

Noun

1860s pl (plural only)

1. The decade from 1860 to 1869.
   • 2014, Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 305:

     Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness.

   • 2017, Juliet Johnson, Marietta Stepaniants, Benjamin Forest, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia:

     In the mid-1860s, Russia also experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia.

   • 2020, Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology […] , Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN:

     The topic of glottogony has long been a taboo in linguistics, for the very good reason that it attracts boundless speculation: when Darwinism was freshly en vogue in the 1860s, linguistic debate was inundated with such proposals to the point where, in 1866, the Linguistic Society of Paris banned the entire topic as a hopeless exercise […]

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decades in English (edit)