Notable Historical Events - 1858
1858 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Canada begins using decimal currency system |
Jan 9 |
Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide. |
Jan 14 |
French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed |
Jan 25 |
Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia |
Jan 30 |
Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester, England |
Jan 30 |
William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom" |
Feb 11 |
1st apparition of the Virgin Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes, France |
Feb 13 |
Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa |
Feb 21 |
Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Mass) |
Feb 22 |
Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in NYC |
Mar 2 |
Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie |
Mar 9 |
Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox |
Mar 18 |
Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns |
Mar 23 |
Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Phila) |
Mar 30 |
Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Phila) |
Apr 10 |
"Big Ben", a 13.76 tonne bell, is recast in the Tower of Westminster |
Apr 12 |
1st US billiards championship (Michael J Phelan wins in Detroit) |
Apr 15 |
Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists |
Apr 16 |
The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up. |
May 4 |
War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz |
May 8 |
John Brown holds antislavery convention |
May 11 |
Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state |
May 15 |
Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London |
May 22 |
Confederación Granadina (now Colombia) forms |
May 28 |
Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play" premieres in London |
May 30 |
Hudson's Bay Company's rights to Vancouver Island revoked |
Jun 2 |
Donati Comet 1st seen named after its discoverer |
Jun 16 |
Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate |
Jun 21 |
Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe |
Jun 29 |
Great fire in London docks |
Jun 29 |
Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia |
Jul 1 |
1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent) |
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 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 bcomes first Jewish person elected to 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 & Japan opening Japanese ports to trade |
Aug 2 |
1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets |
Aug 2 |
Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown |
Aug 5 |
Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable |
Aug 11 |
First ascent of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland |
Aug 15 |
Regular mail to Pacific coast begins |
Aug 16 |
Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan |
Aug 17 |
1st bank in Hawaii opens |
Aug 18 |
Netherlands & Japan sign trade agreement |
Aug 21 |
1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois) |
Aug 24 |
Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning |
Aug 26 |
First news dispatch by telegraph. |
Sep 1 |
1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month |
Sep 8 |
Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time" |
Sep 10 |
John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Bkln vs NY) |
Sep 10 |
George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. |
Sep 13 |
Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die |
Sep 16 |
1st overland mail for California |
Sep 28 |
Donati's comet becomes 1st to be photographed |
Oct 21 |
In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed |
Oct 21 |
Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orphée aux Enfers" premieres in Paris |
Oct 26 |
Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine |
Oct 28 |
R. H. Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $11.06 |
Nov 9 |
1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra |
Nov 17 |
Origin of Modified Julian Period |
Dec 12 |
1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent & 20 cent) |
Dec 16 |
Dutch government decides to vacate Schokland Island |
Dec 18 |
Passy, at Paris: 1st "Samedi soir" i/d villa of lovers Rossini |
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