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?
Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
On January 25, 1858
World Leaders in 1858
Edward Smith-Stanley
British Prime Minister
James Buchanan
15th US President
Famous People in 1858
Charles Dickens
Novelist
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Christiaan Eijkman
Daniel Williams
Emmeline Pankhurst
Giacomo Puccini
Rudolf Diesel
Theodore RooseveltFamous 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
- Nov 11 20th US President James Garfield (26) weds Lucretia Rudolph (26) in Hiram, Ohio
Dred Scott
Matthew C. Perry