Important Historical Events of the year 1858, Year 1858 in History

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Date	Event
January 9, 1858	British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong
January 14, 1858	Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris.
January 25, 1858	The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
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.
February 11, 1858	Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary occurs in Lourdes, France.
April 10, 1858	After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
April 16, 1858	The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is dissolved.
June 16, 1858	Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
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 of London.
July 16, 1858	The last apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France.[6]
July 29, 1858	United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
August 2, 1858	The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in India with that of the British Raj.
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 7, 1858	The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
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 21, 1858	The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Ottawa, Illinois.
September 10, 1858	George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
November 17, 1858	Modified Julian Day zero.
November 17, 1858	The city of Denver, Colorado is founded.