Significant Events
- Feb 11 First vision of the Virgin Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes, France
- Apr 10 "Big Ben", a 13.76 tonne bell, is recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
- Jun 16 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate
- Jul 1 The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society
- Aug 2 Government of India transferred from East India Company to the British Crown
Did You Know?
First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service
On July 28, 1858
Christiaan Eijkman
Daniel Williams
Emmeline Pankhurst
Giacomo Puccini
Rudolf Diesel
Theodore RooseveltWorld Leaders in 1858
Edward Smith-Stanley
British Prime Minister
James Buchanan
15th US President
Famous People in 1858
Charles Dickens
Novelist
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Famous Weddings
- Jan 26 Inventor Cyrus McCormick (48) weds Nancy Fowler
- Feb 10 US President Millard Fillmore (58) weds Caroline Carmichael (43) in Albany, New York
- Jun 18 Norwegian modernist playwright "The Doll's House" Henrik Ibsen (30) marries Suzannah Thoresen (21) in Oslo
Dred Scott
Matthew C. Perry