Important Events in 1858
- 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
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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
Chester Greenwood
Daniel Williams
Emmeline Pankhurst
Giacomo Puccini
Rudolf Diesel
Theodore RooseveltFamous People in 1858
- Charles Dickens
Novelist - Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Charles Dickens
Giuseppe VerdiWorld Leaders in 1858
- Edward Smith-Stanley
British Prime Minister - James Buchanan
15th US President
Edward Smith-Stanley
James BuchananFamous Weddings in 1858
- 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
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Dred Scott
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