What happened in 1858

23 events　World 1, North America 4, Europe 10, Asia 6, Latin America 1, Oceania 1

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Highlights of 1858

Mar 21AsiaIndian Rebellion: British troops retake Lucknow.
Jul 12OceaniaThe Advertiser, a daily newspaper still in circulation, begins publication in Adelaide, Australia.
Jul 29WorldThe United States and Japan sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, negotiated by Townsend Harris.
Aug 2EuropeA bill is passed to create a modern sewage system in London as a result of the Great Stink, when the heat of the summer made the smell from sewage in the Thames unbearable.
Aug 21North AmericaThe first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Illinois.
Dec 7Latin AmericaMexican Conservative interim president Félix María Zuloaga proclaims the Plan of Tacubaya to abolish the Reform Laws, setting off a three-year civil war (1857–1860).

World1

Jul 29The United States and Japan sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, negotiated by Townsend Harris.

North America4

Jan 9Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
Jun 16Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican Party nomination for a seat in the United States Senate, delivering his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
Aug 21The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Illinois.
Oct 28Macy's department store, founded by R. H. Macy, opens for business in New York City.

Europe10

Jan 14Orsini affair: Piedmontese revolutionary Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris, but their bombs kill eight and wound 142 people. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France, but the emperor refuses to support it.
Feb 11Lourdes apparitions: Pauper girl Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes, fourteen, has a vision at the grotto of Massabielle, the first in a series of eighteen events which will come to be regarded as Marian apparitions.
Mar 13Felice Orsini is executed by guillotine for the attempted assassination of Napoleon III of France.
Apr 28Battle of Grahovac: The Ottomans are decisively defeated by Montenegrin forces. The Bawani Imli massacre, (April 28) where 52 Indian freedom fighters were hanged to death on a tamarind tree by British colonial forces.
MayJuly – Mahtra War: Peasants in the Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire revolt against ongoing serfdom, which was officially abolished in 1816.
Jun 23Police of the Papal States seize Jewish boy Edgardo Mortara, and take him away to be raised as a Catholic.
Aug 2A bill is passed to create a modern sewage system in London as a result of the Great Stink, when the heat of the summer made the smell from sewage in the Thames unbearable.
Aug 2The Government of India Act, passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, transfers the territories of the British East India Company and their administration to the direct rule of the British Crown, through a Secretary of State for India.
SepCochinchina Campaign: French warships, under Charles Rigault de Genouilly, attack and occupy Da Nang, Vietnam.
Oct 21Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, featuring music associated with the can-can, is first performed in Paris.

Asia6

Mar 21Indian Rebellion: British troops retake Lucknow.
May 28The Treaty of Aigun is signed by Yishan and Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky on behalf of the Qing Dynasty and the Russian Empire.
Jun 13The Treaty of Tientsin is signed, ending the first part of the Second Opium War.
Jun 18The Queen of Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai, dies at 30 at Gwalior, having been mortally wounded in combat against the British.
Jun 20Indian Rebellion of 1857: The last rebels surrender in Gwalior.
Jul 8A peace treaty ends the Indian Rebellion.

Latin America1

Dec 7Mexican Conservative interim president Félix María Zuloaga proclaims the Plan of Tacubaya to abolish the Reform Laws, setting off a three-year civil war (1857–1860).

Oceania1

Jul 12The Advertiser, a daily newspaper still in circulation, begins publication in Adelaide, Australia.