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1858
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'''1858 (MDCCCLVIII)''' is a
common year starting on Friday of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower
Julian calendar).
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'''Years:''' 1855 1856 1857 -
1858 -
1859 1860 1861
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'''Decades:''' 1820s 1830s 1840s - '''
1850s''' -
1860s 1870s 1880s
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'''Centuries:''' 18th century - '''
19th century''' -
20th century
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Events
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January 14 -
Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate
Napoleon III of France Napoleon III in
Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in
United Kingdom 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
Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria's daughter
Victoria, Princess Royal and Empress Frederick Victoria, "Vicky," the
Princess Royal to Prince
Friedrich III of Germany (Hohenzollern) 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 executed by
guillotine
*
May 11 -
Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd
U.S. state.
*
June 20 - Last rebels of the
Indian Mutiny surrender in
Gwalior
*
June 23 - Police of the
Papal States seize
Jew Jewish boy
Edgardo Mortara and take him away to be raised as a Catholic
*
July 29 -
United States and
Japan sign the
Harris Treaty.
*
August 5 -
Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic
Telegraphy telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. The service ends on
September 1 due to weak current
*
August 11 - First ascent of the
Eiger.
*
August 16 - US President
James Buchanan inaugurates the new trans-Atlantic
Telegraphy 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.
*
November 17 -
epoch (astronomy) epoch of the
Julian day Modified Julian Day
*
British Empire takes over powers & properties of the
British_East_India_Company British East India Company (see also
history of Bangladesh).
*
William Marcy Tweed begins his thirteen-year term as "
Political boss Boss" of
Tammany Hall.
* British stop using
Hulk_(ship) prison hulks.
* Last
Cape Lion seen.
*
Haute couture firm of Worth and Bobergh established.
*
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
*
The Miners Association established in
Cornwall,
UK.
Births
*
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)
*
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 in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1947)
*
June 16 - King
Gustaf V of Sweden (d.
1950)
*
June 16 -
William D. Boyce William Dickson Boyce, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d.
1929)
*
July 9 -
Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d.
1942)
*
August 1 -
Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d.
1884)
*
August 11 -
Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1930)
*
August 27 -
Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d.
1932)
*
September 18 -
Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of
William Booth William and
Catherine Booth (d.
1955)
*
October 3 -
Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d.
1924)
*
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 in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1940)
*
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)
Month/day unknown
*
Percy Andreae, American anti-prohibition leader (d. ?)
Deaths
*
January 5 -
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b.
1766)
*
January 9 -
Anson Jones, 5th and last
List of Presidents of the Republic of Texas 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)
*
September 17 -
Dred Scott, American slave
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