1858

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1820s  1830s  1840s  – 1850s –  1860s  1870s  1880s
Years:	1855 1856 1857 – 1858 – 1859 1860 1861

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1858 Media

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  August 5: the first telecommunications cable to link Europe and North America is inaugurated.

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  August 5: A commemorative stamp for the first transatlantic telegraph cable.

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  Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine

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  Max Planck

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  King Gustav V of Sweden

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  Lillie Eginton Warren, photo by Rockwood, New York

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  Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States.

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  SelmaLagerlöf

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  Giacomo Puccini in a studio photograph.

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  • Formal portrait, Emmeline Pankhurst, three-quarter length, seated in chair, facing slightly right with head turned toward camera, wearing high-collared blouse with decorative buttons, bow tie, and necklace.

1858 (MDCCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1858th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 858th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1858, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• Charles Darwin proposes the natural selection of species.
• A civil war between conservatists and liberals starts in Mexico.
• The British Empire or rule, begins in India after the surrender and exile of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II

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 laureate (d. 1947)
• June 16 – King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
• June 16 – 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)
• September 18 – Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1955)
• October 3 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
• October 27 – Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1919)
• November 20 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, 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)