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1858 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1858
MDCCCLVIII
Ab urbe condita2611
Armenian calendar1307
ԹՎ ՌՅԷ
Assyrian calendar6608
Bahá'í calendar14–15
Balinese saka calendar1779–1780
Bengali calendar1265
Berber calendar2808
British Regnal year21 Vict. 1 – 22 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2402
Burmese calendar1220
Byzantine calendar7366–7367
Chinese calendar丁巳(Fire Snake)
4554 or 4494
    — to —
戊午年 (Earth Horse)
4555 or 4495
Coptic calendar1574–1575
Discordian calendar3024
Ethiopian calendar1850–1851
Hebrew calendar5618–5619
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1914–1915
 - Shaka Samvat1779–1780
 - Kali Yuga4958–4959
Holocene calendar11858
Igbo calendar858–859
Iranian calendar1236–1237
Islamic calendar1274–1275
Japanese calendarAnsei 5
(安政5年)
Javanese calendar1786–1787
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4191
Minguo calendar54 before ROC
民前54年
Nanakshahi calendar390
Thai solar calendar2400–2401
Tibetan calendar阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1984 or 1603 or 831
    — to —
阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
1985 or 1604 or 832

1858 (MDCCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1858th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 858th year of the , the 58th year of the , and the 9th year of the decade. As of the start of 1858, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Events[]

January–March[]

  • January – William I of Prussia becomes regent for his brother, Frederick William IV, who has suffered a stroke.
  • January 14Orsini affair: Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 8 and wound 142 people. 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. Orsini is executed by guillotine on March 13 of this year.
  • 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, Princess Royal, to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St James's Palace, London.[1]
  • February 11Lourdes apparitions: 14-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes has a vision at the grotto of Massabielle, the first in a series of 18 events which will come to be considered as Marian apparitions.
  • February 13Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke become the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika.[1]
  • March 21Indian Rebellion: British troops retake Lucknow.
  • March 30Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser in the United States.

April–June[]

  • April 16 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
  • April 19 – Treaty with Yankton Sioux Tribe.
  • April 28May 1Battle of Grahovac between Ottoman and Montenegrin forces.
  • May–July – Mahtra War: Peasants in the Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire revolt against ongoing serfdom, which is officially abolished in 1816.
  • May 11Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
  • May 13John Ruskin begins a tour of Europe. He considers it a significant turning point in his life.[2]
  • May 14 – Dr David Livingstone's 6-year Second Zambesi Expedition arrives at the African coast.[3]
  • May 19 – The Marais des Cygnes massacre is perpetrated by pro-slavery forces in Bleeding Kansas.
  • June 2Comet Donati, the first comet to be photographed, is discovered by Giovanni Battista Donati and remains visible for several months afterwards.
  • June 13June 17Treaty of Tientsin signed, ending the first part of the Second Opium War.
  • June 16Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican Party nomination for a seat in the United States Senate, delivering his "House Divided" speech in Springfield, Illinois.
  • June 17 – The Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad opens, operating 95 miles from Goldsboro, North Carolina to New Bern, North Carolina.[4]
  • June 20 – The last rebels of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 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.

July–September[]

  • July
    • Camillo Benso, Count of 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 1Joint presentation of papers by Darwin and Wallace announcing a theory of evolution by natural selection are read at London's Linnean Society.
  • July 8 – Peace treaty to end the Indian Rebellion.
  • July 12The 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 Treaty of Amity and Commerce, negotiated by Townsend Harris.
  • August – The first aerial photography is carried out by Nadar from a moored balloon in France.[5]
  • August 2 – The Government of India Act, passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, transfers the territories of the British East India Company and their administration to the direct rule of the British Crown, through a Secretary of State for India.[6]
  • August 3John Hanning Speke discovers Lake Victoria, source of the river Nile.[1]
  • August 5Cyrus 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 – A football match played under unknown set of rules 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. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
  • August 21 – The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held.
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August 5: First transatlantic telegraph cable.

  • September – Cochinchina Campaign: French warships under Charles Rigault de Genouilly attack and occupy Da Nang in Vietnam.
  • September 11 – First ascent of Dom, the third highest summit in the Alps.

October–December[]

  • October 21Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, featuring music associated with the can-can, is first performed in Paris.
  • October 28Macy's department store, founded by R.H. Macy, opens for business in New York City.
  • November 12Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, succeeds to the throne aged 18; he will rule until his death in 1929, the second-longest in European royal history and the longest precisely documented tenure of any monarch without a regent since antiquity.
  • November 16 – The 2,400,000th day of the Epoch of the Modified Julian Day is reached.
  • November 17 – The city of Denver, Colorado, is founded.
  • December 29 – The Northern Railway Company is established in Madrid, Spain, with a purpose to construct the Northern Railway.
  • December 30Paraguay expedition: Seventeen U.S. Navy warships, under the command of William Shubrick, depart from Uruguay on a mission to demand concessions from Paraguay, and to go to war if necessary.

Date unknown[]

  • William M. Tweed begins his 13-year term as "Boss" of Tammany Hall.
  • Homosexuality legalised in the Ottoman Empire.
  • The haute couture firm of Worth and Bobergh is established in Paris.
  • The Miners Association is established in Cornwall, England, UK.
  • Feudalism and serfdom in Bulgaria are abolished in the Ottoman Empire (practically in 1880).

Births[]

January–June[]

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Rudolf Diesel

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Max Planck

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Gustaf V of Sweden

  • January 7Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language (d. 1922)
  • January 10Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
  • January 11Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (d. 1947)
  • January 13Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian physician (d. 1931)
  • January 22Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, English soldier, explorer and colonial administrator (d. 1945)
  • January 27 – Cornelia Hubertina Doff (Neel Doff), French author of Dutch origin (d. 1942)
  • January 28Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist who discovered Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or "Java Man" (d. 1940)
  • February 5Mahlon Pitney, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1924)
  • February 15John Joseph Montgomery, American glider pioneer (d. 1911)
  • February 18Wilhelm Schmidt, German pioneer of superheated steam for use in locomotives (d. 1924)
  • February 19Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1939)
  • February 24Friedrich Schrempf, German editor and politician (d. 1912)
  • March 6Samuel Untermyer, American lawyer (d. 1940)
  • March 9Gustav Stickley, American furniture designer and architect. (d. 1942)
  • March 10Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
  • March 18Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
  • March 23Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)
  • March 28Joséphin Péladan, French novelist (d. 1918)
  • March 30DeWolf Hopper, American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer (d. 1935)
  • April 23Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
  • April 30Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (d. 1948)
  • May 8Heinrich Berté, Austrian operetta composer (d. 1924)
  • May 26Horace Smith-Dorrien, British general (d. 1930)
  • June 16
    • King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
    • William D. Boyce, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1929)
  • June 20
    • Charles Waddell Chesnutt, African American author, essayist, political activist (d. 1932)
    • Paul Maistre, French general (d. 1922)
  • June 28Otis Skinner, American stage & film actor (d. 1943)

July–December[]

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Selma Lagerlöf

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Giacomo Puccini

  • July 9Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
  • July 14Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette, mother of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst (d. 1928)
  • July 16Petar Bojović, Serbian field marshal (d. 1945)
  • July 21Maria Christina of Austria, queen consort of Spain, second wife of Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1929)
  • August 1Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
  • August 2Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, queen consort and regent of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
  • August 10Georgi Todorov, Bulgarian general (d. 1934)
  • August 11Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
  • August 13G. E. M. Skues, Newfoundland-born British inventor of nymph fly fishing (d. 1949)
  • August 15E. Nesbit, English children's novelist (d. 1924)
  • August 18Thomas S. Rodgers, American admiral (d. 1931)
  • August 19Alfred Dyke Acland, British military officer (d. 1937)
  • August 27Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
  • September 1
    • Andrew Jackson Zilker, American philanthropist (d. 1934)
    • Carl Auer von Welsbach, Austrian chemist and inventor (d. 1929)
  • September 12J. H. Smith, American politician and pioneer (d. 1956)
  • September 16Bonar Law, New Brunswick-born Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
  • October 3Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
  • October 12John L. Sullivan, American heavyweight boxing champion (d. 1918)
  • October 15William Sims, American admiral (d. 1936)
  • October 19George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
  • October 27
    • Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
    • Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral, 19th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
  • November 10Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (d. 1928)
  • November 20Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
  • November 23Albert Ranft, Swedish theatre director and actor (d. 1938)
  • November 26Katharine Drexel, American Roman Catholic saint (d. 1955)
  • November 30Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
  • December 11Kata Dalström, Swedish politician (d. 1923)
  • December 19Adolf Schiel, German-born officer in Boer armed forces (d. 1903)
  • December 22Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
  • December 25Herman P. Faris, American temperance movement leader (d. 1936)

Date unknown[]

  • Alina Jägerstedt, Swedish trade unionist and Social Democrat (d. 1919)

Deaths[]

January–June[]

  • January 5Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
  • January 8Caroline Cornwallis, English writer (b. 1786)
  • January 9Anson Jones, 4th and last President of the Republic of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
  • March 4 – Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, American naval officer (b. 1794)
  • April 7Anton Diabelli, composer (b. 1781)
  • May 11Joseph Gensoul, French surgeon (b. 1797)
  • June 3Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
  • June 28Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (b. 1786)
    • Jane Marcet, British science writer (b. 1769)

July–December[]

  • August 14Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1824)
  • September 9Thomas Assheton Smith II, politician and cricketer (b. 1776)
  • September 17Dred Scott, American slave (b. ca 1795)
  • November 3Harriet Taylor Mill, philosopher and women's rights advocate (b. 1807)
  • November 12Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1796)
  • November 15Li Hsu-pin, military leader (b. 1817)
  • November 17Robert Owen, social reformer (b. 1771)
  • November 24Wincenty Krasiński, Polish military leader (b. 1782)
  • December 3Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher, geologist (b. 1817)
  • December 13Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher, botanist (b. 1799)
  • December 17Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1800)

Date unknown[]

  • Amelia Griffiths, British phycologist (b. 1768)
  • Georgios Kountouriotis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1782)

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  2. Ruskin, John (1982). Hayman, John (ed.). Letters From The Continent, 1858. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5583-4.
  3. "The Zambesi Expedition". Livingstone Online. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  4. CommunicationSolutions/ISI, "Railroads — prior to the Civil War", North Carolina Business History, 2006, accessed 1 Feb 2010.
  5. "Brief history of aerial photography". www.findaerialphotography.com. 2007. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  6. Wolpert, Stanley (1989). A New History of India (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 239–40. ISBN 0-19-505637-X.
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