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 – 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 )

The other two translations were made by Mrs. Sabine under the superintendence of her husband Col. Edward Sabine ( 4 volumes 1846 – 1858 ), and by Miss E. C.

* E. Nesbit, children's author, best known for The Railway Children, was born in Kennington in 1858.

Lower Lake was founded by E. Mitchell in 1858 and he built the first house there.

* Daniel E. Somes, US congressman from Maine ( 1856 – 1858 )

Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

It was named for Elijah E. Holden, a member of the Mormon Battalion who was one of the first settlers of Holden and died while caught in a snowstorm in 1858.

Among notices on Villemain may be cited that of Louis de Loménie ( 1841 ), E. Mirecourt ( 1858 ), J. L.

* Boardman, William E. The Higher Christian Life, ( Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1858 ).

It was later reprinted in 1858 in a book of collected stories edited by William E Burton, called the Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor.

The Church of St Paul on Herne Hill was originally built by G Alexander in 1843 at a cost of £ 4958, but dramatically rebuilt by Gothic architect G E Street in 1858 after a destructive fire.

Waldenström, 1838 – 1917 ; Frans-Gustav Petersson-Haggquist, 1843 – 1936 ; Axel E. Karlson, 1858 – 1910 ; David Nyvall, 1863 – 1946 ; et al.

* Lemuel E. Prowse ( 1858 – 1925 ), merchant and politician in Prince Edward Island, Canada

* 1858 – 1858 Charles E. Mix

The current E postcode area was originally formed in 1866 as a merger of the E and NE areas created in 1858.

E. Paul du Pont was married in 1910 to Jean Kane Foulke du Pont, the granddaughter of William Foulke, discoverer of the first full dinosaur skeleton in the United States ( Hadrosaurus foulkii ), in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858.

In another work, Sulle condizioni economiche della Valtellina ( Milan, 1858, translated into English by W. E. Gladstone ), he exposed the evils of Austrian rule, and he drew up a report on the general conditions of Lombardy and Venetia for Cavour.

One of his operas, Diana von Solange ( 1858 ), prompted Franz Liszt the following year to write an orchestral Festmarsch nach Motiven von E. H. z. S .- C .- G., S. 116 ( E. H. z. S .- C .- G. was short for Ernst Herzog zu Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha ).

They were also influenced by William E. Boardman, who wrote The Higher Christian Life ( 1858 ).

The Reverend Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin or T. H. E. C. Espin ( 28 May 1858 – 2 December 1934 ) was a British astronomer.

The section from 1325 to 1471 was edited by L. M. E. Dupont ( Paris, 1858 – 1863 ).

By 1858, Foulks's company was known as J. E. Liggett and Brother.

In 1858, the partnership began manufacturing the Willcox & Gibbs sewing machine.

As early as 1858, Le Fort claimed an alveolar distribution of the bronchial arteries in human beings.

After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas.

Lincoln's most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he defended William " Duff " Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker.

Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas for the Senate in 1858, since he had led the opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state.

After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Most observers believed that without expansion slavery would eventually die out ; Lincoln argued this in 1845 and 1858.

In an attempt to blunt that reaction and reunite the Democratic party, presidential hopeful Stephen A. Douglas developed the Freeport Doctrine of popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

Doubleday initially served in coastal garrisons and then in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 and the Seminole Wars from 1856 to 1858.

In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.

In 1858, Sir Henry Bessemer developed a process of steel making by blowing hot air through liquid pig iron to reduce the carbon content.