1858 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1858?
- January 9, 1858 – Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
- January 25, 1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
- January 30, 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
- April 10, 1858 – The original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster is cast in Stockton-on-Tees by Warner’s of Cripplegate. This however cracked during testing and is recast into the 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry and is still in use to date.
- April 16, 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
- May 11, 1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
- May 15, 1858 – Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
- June 16, 1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
- June 18, 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
- July 1, 1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
- July 29, 1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
- August 5, 1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
- August 11, 1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
- August 16, 1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
- August 20, 1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace’s same theory.
- August 23, 1858 – The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
- September 10, 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- November 17, 1858 – Modified Julian Day zero.
- November 22, 1858 – Denver, Colorado is founded.
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