Year '1858' ('
MDCCCLVIII') was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian Calendar (or a
common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1858
January - March
★
January 14 -
Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate
Napoleon III in
Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in
Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France, but the emperor refuses to support it.
★
January 25 - The ''
Wedding March'' by
Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of
Queen Victoria's daughter
Victoria, "Vicky," the
Princess Royal to Prince
Friedrich of Prussia in
St. James's Palace,
London.
★
February 11 -
The Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to
St Bernadette of
Lourdes.
★
March 30 -
Hyman Lipman patents a
pencil with an attached eraser.
★
March 13 - Would-be assassin
Felice Orsini is executed by
guillotine.
April - June
★
May 11 -
Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd
U.S. state.
★
May 19 -
Marais des Cygnes massacre perpetrated by pro slavery forces in
Bleeding Kansas.
★
June 20 - The last rebels of the
Indian Mutiny surrender in
Gwalior.
★
June 23 - Police of the
Papal States seize
Jewish boy
Edgardo Mortara and take him away to be raised as a Catholic.
★ May-July -
Mahtra War in the
Governorate of Estonia,
Russian Empire - peasants revolt against
serfdom, that was officially abolished in
1816.
July - September
★ July -
Fifty-Niners stream into the
Rocky Mountains of the western
United States during the
Pike's Peak Gold Rush.
★
July 1 - Papers by
Darwin and
Wallace announcing a theory of Evolution by natural selection read at London's
Linnean Society.
★
July 12 - First publication of
The Advertiser, the daily news paper still in circulation in
Adelaide, Australia
★
July 17 - Salvage of the
Lutine bell, which is subsequently hung in
Lloyd's of London.
★
July 28 - In
Bengal/
India, British officer
William James Herschel used hand impression of Rajyadhar Konai as a
contract fingerprint signature.
★
July 29 -
United States and
Japan sign the
Harris Treaty.
★
August 5 -
Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic
telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. The service ends on
September 1 due to weak current.
★
August 7 - First Australian Rules football match between
Melbourne Grammar School and
Scotch College and founding of the
Melbourne Football Club.
★
August 11 - First ascent of the
Eiger.
★
August 16 - US President
James Buchanan inaugurates the new trans-Atlantic
telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen
Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
October - December
★
November 17 -
epoch of the
Modified Julian Day
★
November 17 - City of
Denver, CO founded
Undated
★
British Empire takes over powers & properties of the
British East India Company (see also
history of Bangladesh).
★
William Marcy Tweed begins his thirteen-year term as "
Boss" of
Tammany Hall.
★ British stop using
prison hulks.
★ Last
Cape Lion seen.
★
Haute couture firm of Worth and Bobergh established.
★
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
★
The Miners Association established in
Cornwall,
UK.
★
Feudalism and
serfdom in
Bulgaria abolished in the Ottoman Empire; practically in
1880.
Ongoing events
★
Second Opium War (
1856-
1860)
★
Taiping Rebellion (
1851-
1864)
Births
January - June
★
January 7 -
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language (d.
1922)
★
January 10 -
Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d.
1929)
★
January 11 -
Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (d.
1947)
★
February 15 -
John Joseph Montgomery, American glider pioneer (d.
1911)
★
March 10 -
Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d.
1954)
★
March 18 -
Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d.
1913)
★
March 23 -
Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1941)
★
April 23 -
Max Planck, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1947)
★
April 30 -
Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President
Benjamin Harrison (d.
1948)
★
June 16
★
★ King
Gustaf V of Sweden (d.
1950)
★
★
William Dickson Boyce, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d.
1929)
July - December
★
July 9 -
Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d.
1942)
★
August 1 -
Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d.
1884)
★
August 2 -
Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Dutch Queen and regent (d.
1934)
★
August 11 -
Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1930)
★
August 19 -
Alfred Dyke Acland, British military officer (d.
1937)
★
August 27 -
Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d.
1932)
★
September 1 -
Andrew Jackson Zilker, American philanthropist (d.
1934)
★
September 16 -
Andrew Bonar Law,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1923)
★
October 3 -
Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d.
1924)
★
October 19 -
George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d.
1937)
★
October 27 -
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th
President of the United States, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1919)
★
November 20 -
Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1940)
★
November 26 -
Katharine Drexel,
Roman Catholic saint
★
November 30 -
Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d.
1937)
★
December 22 -
Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d.
1924)
★
December 25 -
Herman P. Faris, American temperance movement leader (d.
1936)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Percy Andreae, American anti-prohibition leader.
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
★
January 5 -
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b.
1766)
★
January 9 -
Anson Jones, 5th and last
President of Texas (suicide) (b.
1798)
★
March 4 - Commodore
Matthew Calbraith Perry, American naval officer (b.
1794)
★
June 3 -
Julius Reubke, German composer (b.
1834)
★
June 28 -
Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (b.
1786)
July - December
★
August 14 -
Tokugawa Iesada, shogun (b.
1824)
★
September 17 -
Dred Scott, American
slave (b. ca
1795)
★
November 15 -
Li Hsu-pin, military leader (b.
1817)
★
November 17 -
Robert Owen, social reformer (b.
1771)
★
December 3 -
Joseph Marie Elisabeth Durocher, geologist (b.
1817)
★
December 13 -
Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher, botanist (b.
1799)
★
December 17 -
Koca Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottaman statesman (b.
1800)
: ''See also .''
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