1858
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
| Decades: | 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s |
| Years: | 1855 1856 1857 - 1858 - 1859 1860 1861 |
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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).
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[edit] Events of 1858
[edit] July – September
- July
- Count Camillo Benso di Cavour goads Austria into attacking Sardinia.
- 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 are read at London's Linnean Society.
- July 12 – The Advertiser, the daily news paper still in circulation, begins publication in Adelaide, Australia.
- July 17 – The Lutine bell, is salvaged and subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London.
- July 28 – In Bengal/India, British officer William James Herschel uses the hand impression of Rajyadhar Konai as a contract fingerprint signature.
- July 29 – The 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 21 – The first of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 is held.
- August 7 – The first claimed Australian rules football match is held between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College.
- August 11 – First ascent of the Eiger.
- August 16 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new trans-Atlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
- September 11 – First ascent of Dom, the third highest summit in the Alps.
- September 18 – John Christoph Reichert, immigrant from Roigheim, Germany, granted United States citizenship at Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana.
[edit] October – December
- October 28 – Macy's department store, founded by R.H. Macy, opens for business.
- November 17
- The Epoch of the Modified Julian Day is reached.
- The city of Denver, Colorado is founded.
[edit] Undated
- The British Empire takes over the powers & properties of the British East India Company(see also history of Bangladesh).
- India starts to be ruled by the British Parliament and administered by a civil service in India.
- William Marcy Tweed begins his 13-year term as "Boss" of Tammany Hall.
- The British stop using prison hulks.
- The last Cape Lion is seen.
- The haute couture firm of Worth and Bobergh is established.
- The Miners Association is established in Cornwall, UK.
- Feudalism and serfdom in Bulgaria are abolished in the Ottoman Empire (practically in 1880).
- William I of Prussia becomes a regent.
- Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican Party (United States) nomination for a seat in the US Senate.
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1858 MDCCCLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2611 |
| Armenian calendar | 1307 ԹՎ ՌՅԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 14 – 15 |
| Berber calendar | 2808 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2402 |
| Burmese calendar | 1220 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7366 – 7367 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁巳年十一月十七日 (4494/4554-11-17) — to —
戊午年十一月廿七日(4495/4555-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 1574 – 1575 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1850 – 1851 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5618 – 5619 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1913 – 1914 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1780 – 1781 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4959 – 4960 |
| Holocene calendar | 11858 |
| Iranian calendar | 1236 – 1237 |
| Islamic calendar | 1274 – 1275 |
| Japanese calendar | Ansei 5 (安政5年) |
| Korean calendar | 4191 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2401 |
[edit] 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)
- January 27 – Cornelia Hubertina Doff (Neel Doff), French author of Dutch origin (d. 1942)
- February 15 – John Joseph Montgomery, American glider pioneer (d. 1911)
- March 9 – Gustav Stickley, American furniture designer and architect. (d. 1942)
- 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)
- June 28 – Otis Skinner, American stage & film actor (d. 1943)
[edit] July – December
- July 9 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
- July 14 – Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette, mother of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst (d. 1928)
- 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 13 – George Edward MacKenzie Skues, British inventor of nymph fly fishing (d. 1949)
- 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 11 – Kata Dalström, Swedish politician (d. 1923)
- December 22 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
- December 25 – Herman P. Faris, American temperance movement leader (d. 1936)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] 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)
- April 7 – Anton Diabelli, composer (b. 1781)
- June 3 – Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
- June 28 – Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (b. 1786)
[edit] July – December
- August 14 – Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (b. 1824)
- September 9 – Thomas Assheton Smith II, politician and cricketer (b. 1776)
- September 17 – Dred Scott, American slave (b. ca 1795)
- November 12 – Alois II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1796)
- November 15 – Li Hsu-pin, military leader (b. 1817)
- November 17 – Robert Owen, social reformer (b. 1771)
- November 24 – Wincenty Krasiński, Polish military leader (b. 1782)
- December 3 – Joseph Marie Elisabeth Durocher, geologist (b. 1817)
- December 13 – Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher, botanist (b. 1799)
- December 17 – Koca Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1800)
- date unknown – Georgios Kountouriotis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1782)
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