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 )

* 1954 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman ( b. 1858 )

** Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral, 19th Prime Minister of Japan ( assassinated ) ( b. 1858 )

* Saitō Makoto ( 1858 – 1936 ), admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy

Hakodate port partially opened to foreign ships for provisioning in the following year and then completely to foreign trade on 2 June 1859 as one of five Japanese open ports designated in the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce signed with the U. S.

The ideas behind MFN policies can first be seen in US foreign policy during the opening of Japan in the mid to late 1850s, when they were included as a clause in the Commercial Treaty of 1858, which signalled the opening of the Japanese market.

He was the first Japanese person to be naturalized as an American citizen in 1858.

Various literary figures of the Joseon period hailed from Mungyeong, as did heroes of the resistance against Japanese attacks in the late 16th century ( the local commander Sin Gil-won, 1548 – 1592 ) and of the righteous army movement in the early 20th ( the leader I Gang-nyeon, 1858 – 1908 ).

Its early photography is often divided into two periods: Pre-Japanese from approximately 1858 to 1895, and an Era of Japanese Influence, from 1895 to 1945, the year the Japanese occupation of Taiwan ended.

The was signed on August 26, 1858 by Lord Elgin and the then representatives of the Japanese government ( Tokugawa shogunate ).

Literary historian Ben Harris McClary suggests that a Ducktown-area farmer named William " Sut " Miller ( d. 1858 ) was the inspiration for the George Washington Harris character, Sut Lovingood.

Shaw worked as a farmer, coal miner, explorer, and auctioneer before he began making a living as a journalist and writer in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1858.

From the arrival of José Tadeo Monagas and José Gregorio Monagas to the presidency ( 1848 – 1858 ), enters to the military activity, being part of the revolutions and battles of this decades, after that returned to his life as farmer.

* 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer ( d. 1858 )

* 1858 – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director ( d. 1943 )

* 1858 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer ( d. 1924 )

* 1858 – Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist ( d. 1917 )

* 1858 – Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor, theatre director ( d. 1941 )

* 1858 – Ebenezer Sumner Draper, American politician, 44th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1914 )

* 1858 – Harry Hamilton Johnston, English polymath ( d. 1927 )

* 1858 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer ( d. 1947 )

* 1858 – Neel Doff, Dutch author ( d. 1942 )

* 1858 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist ( d. 1942 )

* 1858 – Tom Garrett, Australian cricketer ( d. 1943 )

* 1858 – Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian writer ( d. 1940 )

* 1858 – George Lyon, Canadian golfer ( d. 1938 )

* 1858 – Gustaf V of Sweden ( d. 1950 )

* 1858 – Beatrice Webb, English economist ( d. 1943 )

* 1858 – Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor ( d. 1931 )