Major Events
- 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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1858 in Music
- Oct 21 Jacques Offenbach's operetta " Orpheus in the Underworld" (Orphée aux Enfers) premieres in Paris, includes "Infernal Galop" (can-can tune)
Did You Know?
First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service
Rudolf Diesel
Emmeline Pankhurst
Bonar Law
Theodore Roosevelt
Selma Lagerlöf
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Matthew C. Perry
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Famous 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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Charles Dickens
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