1858
1858 was a year that started on a Friday.
| 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 |
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, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (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)
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