Every event in our archive, in chronological order. Showing the 1860s — 3 events. Click any event to read the full theory page.
While testing an 18.5-inch lens, telescope-maker Alvan Graham Clark visually confirms Sirius B, establishing the companion star and its roughly 50-year orbit firmly within Western science.
The Dogon and Sirius B: Did Amphibious Aliens Teach an African Tribe About an Invisible Star? →Maurice Joly publishes political satire about Napoleon III. Author imprisoned.
A ten-foot stone figure buried by hoaxer George Hull is "discovered" by well-diggers and exhibited as a petrified prehistoric giant, drawing enormous crowds before being exposed as fraudulent within months.
Smithsonian Giants →