1858

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s

Years: 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 - 1858 - 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863

Events

January 14 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
January 25 - The Wedding March[?] by Felix Mendelssohn is played for the first time at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, "Vicky," the Princess Royal to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St. James's Palace[?], London
February 11 - The Virgin Mary is said appear to St Bernadette[?] of Lourdes
March 30 - Hyman Lipman[?] patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
May 11 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.

British Empire takes over powers & properties of the British East India Company (see also history of Bangladesh).
Benito Juarez becomes constitutional president of Mexico

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

1858 in literature:
- Phantastes[?] - George MacDonald

Births

January 7 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda[?] responsible for revival of Hebrew language
January 10 - Heinrich Zille[?], illustrator and photographer (+ 1929)
January 25 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer (+ 1954)
March 18 - Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the compression ignition engine[?] (+ 1913)
March 1 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher.
April 23 - Max Planck, German physicist, inventor of the quantum mechanics
June 16 - King Gustav V of Sweden
August 27 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician
October 27 - Theodore Roosevelt, later President of the United States of America
December 22 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer

Deaths

March 4 - Matthew Perry, American Commodore.
April 7 - Anton Diabelli, music publisher, editor and composer

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