1858
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1858 is a common year starting on Friday.
Events
January 14 - Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III of France|Napoleon III in Paris but their bombs kill 156 bystanders. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in United Kingdom|Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France but the emperor refuses to support it
January 25 - The ''Wedding March'' by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, Princess Royal and Empress Frederick|Victoria, "Vicky," the Princess Royal to Prince Friedrich III of Germany (Hohenzollern)|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
March 13 - would-be-assassin Felice Orsini executed by guillotine
May 11 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
June 20 - Last rebels of the Indian Mutiny surrender in Gwalior
June 23 - Police of the Papal States seizes jewish boy Edgardo Mortara and take him away to be raised as a catholic
July 29 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
August 5 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. The service ends on September 1 due to weak current
August 11 - First ascent of the Eiger.
August 16 - US President James Buchanan inaugurates the new trans-Atlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
November 17 - epoch of the Julian day|Modified Julian Day
British Empire takes over powers & properties of the British_East_India_Company|British East India Company (see also history of Bangladesh).
William Marcy Tweed begins his thirteen-year term as "Political boss|Boss" of Tammany Hall.
British stop using Hulk_(ship)|prison hulks.
Last Cape Lion seen.
Haute couture firm of Worth and Bobergh established.
Births
January 7 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language (d. 1922)
January 10 - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
January 11 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (d. 1947)
March 10 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
March 18 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
March 23 - Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)
April 23 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
June 16 - King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950)
June 16 - William D. Boyce | William Dickson Boyce founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1929)
July 9 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
August 1 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
August 11 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
August 27 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
October 3 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
October 27 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
November 20 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
November 30 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian Physicist (d. 1937)
December 22 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
December 25 - Herman P. Faris, American temperance movement leader (d. 1936)
Month/day unknown
Percy Andreae, American anti-prohibition leader (d. ?)
Deaths
January 5 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
January 9 - Anson Jones, 5th and last List of Presidents of the Republic of Texas|President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
March 4 - Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, American polar explorer (b. 1794)
April 7 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, and composer (b. 1781)
June 3 - Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
June 28 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (b. 1786)
September 17 - Dred Scott, American slave
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