The 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

* 1858 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician ( d. 1932 )

* 1858 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, ( d. 1934 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician ( d. 1937 )

* 1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer ( d. 1884 )

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

* 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.

* Adrian Kashchenko ( 1858 – 1921 ), Ukrainian writer, historian of Zaporozhian Cossacks

* 1858 – E. Nesbit, English author ( d. 1924 )

* 1858 – U. S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* 1858 – Arthur Achleitner, German writer ( d. 1927 )

* 1858 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria ( d. 1889 )

* Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia ( 1842 – 1858 )

* 1858 – The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England.

* 1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts.

* 1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.

* 1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1930 )

* January 20 – Anson Jones, 5th and last President of the Republic of Texas ( d. 1858 )

The city and post office name was changed from Council City to Burlingame on January 30, 1858, in honor of Anson Burlingame.

Anson Jones ( January 20, 1798 – January 9, 1858 ) was a doctor, businessman, congressman, and the fourth and last President of the Republic of Texas, sometimes called the " Architect of Annexation.

Albert James Pickett ( born Anson County, North Carolina, August 13, 1810-died Montgomery, Alabama, October 28, 1858 ) was a planter and lawyer in Autauga County, Alabama, and is known as Alabama's first historian.

* Jabez Jones, 1857 – 1858.

In 1858 State Senator William A. Jones campaign platform included a promise to seek the formation of a new county for the area.

Fort Jones ceased to exist as a military garrison on June 23, 1858.

Daguerreotypist John Wesley Jones visited the garrison in 1851 and Samuel C. Mills, traveling with the Army bound for Utah, produced at least one image of Fort Bridger in 1858.

* William Nathaniel Jones ( 1858 – 1934 ), Welsh Liberal politician, businessman and soldier

* Thomas ap Catesby Jones ( 1790 – 1858 ), U. S. Navy officer

When anti-slavery Iowa Democrats passed a resolution at their 1858 state convention repudiating the party's previous support for the Lecompton Constitution, Jones and others in the party's " old guard " walked out.

Jones suggests that Andrew Clarke, the Surveyor-General of the Port Phillip District from 1853 to 1858, named all these towns.

* John Patterson Jones ( 1779 – 1858 ), New York politician

* Shoni Sguborfawr ( John Jones, 1811 – 1858 ), Rebecca rioter

* Folklorists: Daniel Silvan Evans ( Y Brython, 1858 ), Peter Roberts ( Cambrian Popular Antiquities, 1815 ), W. Howells ( Cambrian Supertitions, 1831 ), Isaac Foulkes ( Cymru Fu, 1862 ), Wirt Sikes ( British Goblins, 1880 ), Daniel Silvan Evans, John Jones and others ( Ysten Sioned ), Elias Owen ( Welsh Folklore, 1896 ), Marie Trevelyan ( Folklore and Folk Stories of Wales, 1909 ), J. Ceredig Davies ( Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales, 1911 ).

* Herbert Ladd Jones ( 1858 – 1921 ), Canadian politician

The first settlers were Nanaimo coal miners and Hudson's Bay Company employees, John and William Biggs, Thomas Dignan, Edwin Gough, Adam Grant Horne, Thomas Jones, Alexander McFarlane, George Mitchell, Thomas Williams and Charles York all of whom had arrived on Vancouver Island before the 1858 gold rush.

This edition is in thirty-three volumes ; twenty-one of them, giving the more important state trials down to 1781, were edited by TB Howell, and the remaining volumes, bringing the trials down to 1820, by his son Thomas Jones Howell ( d. 1858 ).

Charles Milford Bergstresser ( 1858 – 1923 ) was an American journalist and, with Charles Dow and Edward Jones, one of the founders of Dow Jones & Company at 15 Wall Street in 1882.

* 1858: London-based Nicholson Graham & Jones Ltd is founded

In 1858, the last attempt was made by Johann Gustav Stickel, Jena University: " Das Etruskische (...) als Semitische Sprache erwiesen ".

The last notable action of the Roman Inquisition occurred in 1858, in Bologna, when Inquisition agents legally removed a 6-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, from his family.

The last castrato was Alessandro Moreschi ( 1858 – 1922 ) who served in the Sistine Chapel Choir.

The last major line was completed in 1858 to the east, with the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad connecting to an ocean port.

It is in this last road order, dated in July 1858, that the use of the name Rolla first appears in the court records.

Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his class.

Lake Solitude dam, replacing the crib dam of 1858, replaced in 1909, is the last remaining example of a buttress dam in New Jersey, built by master engineer Frank S. Tainter.

In 1858, the last Indian uprising occurred in Eastern Washington.

Barry was appointed architect to the Dulwich College estate in 1830, an appointment that last until 1858.

The last significant battle was fought in Gwalior on 17 June 1858, during which Rani Lakshmi Bai was killed.

* April 21-Alessandro Moreschi, the last known castrato singer of the Vatican .( b. 1858 )

The first was awarded in 1858 and the last in 1965.

The first 33 inmates arrived from Alton in May 1858 to begin construction ; the last prisoners were transferred in July 1860.

When Lord Aberdeen became prime minister in early 1852, he became Treasurer of the Household, a post he held until 1858, the last three years under the premiership of Lord Palmerston.

Bison once lived in the valleys of Banff, but were hunted by indigenous people and the last bison was killed off in 1858.

Although the Pony Express is often credited with being the first fast mail line across the North American continent to the Pacific coast, it was preceded by the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line, known as the " Jackass Mail " ( for the last 180 miles between Fort Yuma and San Diego accomplished on mule back instead of stagecoach ), which ran on a bi-monthly basis, 1500 miles between San Antonio, Texas and San Diego, California, from July 9, 1857 to December 1858 ; and by the Butterfield Overland Mail of George Chorpenning that predated the Pony Express by nearly three years.

His magnum opus is his Life of Milton in Connexion with the History of His Own Time in six volumes, the first of which appeared in 1858 and the last in 1880.

In July 1858 the Chinese empire signed the Treaty of Tianjin and Dengzhou was renamed for the last time.

The Royal English Opera company under the management of Louisa Pyne and William Harrison, made their last performance at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 11 December 1858 and took up residence at the theatre on 20 December 1858 with a performance of Michael Balfe's Satanella and continued at the theatre until 1864.

Maharaja Dalip Singh, last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire, lived at Castle Menzies between 1855 and 1858, following his exile from the Punjab in 1854.

In 1858, J. Tuff wrote of the market " several attempts have been made to revive it, the last of which, about twenty years ago, also proved a failure, It has again fallen into desuetude and will probably never be revived ".