What Happened in July 1858

Historical Events

Jul 1 The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society

Jul 2 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
Jul 6 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
Jul 17 Recovery of the bell of HMS Lutine from ship's wreck, hung from rostrum in Lloyd's of London's Underwriting Room
Jul 20 Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
Jul 20 Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour
Jul 23 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
Jul 26 Baron Lionel de Rothschild becomes the 1st Jewish person elected to the British Parliament
Jul 28 First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service
Jul 28 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon)
Jul 29 Treaty of Amity and Commerce/Harris Treaty signed between US and Japan opening Japanese ports to trade

Jul 5 Maria "Marie" Bakker, Dutch actress and wife of Maarten Stranger, born (d. 1917)
Jul 9 Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (Mind of Primitive Man), born in Minden, Westphalia, Prussia (d. 1942)
Jul 10 Karl Flodin, Finnish composer and critic, born in Vassa (d. 1925)
Jul 13 Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)

Jul 15 Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette who formed the Women's Social & Political Union (1903), born in Moss Side, Manchester (d. 1928)

Jul 16 Eugene Ysaye, Belgian composer and violinist, born in Liège (d. 1931)
Jul 20 Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
Jul 21 Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
Jul 21 Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain, born in Židlochovice Castle, Moravia (d. 1929)
Jul 21 Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist, born in Sandhurst, Victoria (d. 1941)
Jul 24 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920), born in NYC, New York (d. 1922)
Jul 26 Tommy Garrett, Australian cricketer (original Australian Test player), born in Wollongong, Australia (d. 1943)
Jul 31 Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1936)