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

The first transatlantic telegraph cable had been laid in 1858 ( see Cyrus West Field ).

When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 by businessman Cyrus West Field, it operated for only a month ; subsequent attempts in 1865 and 1866 were more successful.

Cyrus West Field ( November 30, 1819 – July 12, 1892 ) was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.

* Matthew C. Perry ( 1794 – 1858 ), American naval officer who forcibly opened Japan to trade with the West

The Tribune absorbed three other Chicago publications under the new editors: the Free West in 1855, the Democratic Press in 1858, and the Chicago Democrat in 1861, whose editor, John Wentworth, left his position to become Chicago Mayor.

Norman Bethune ’ s great grandfather, Angus Bethune ( 1783 – 1858 ), joined the North West Company at an early age and travelled extensively throughout the north western territories, exploring and trading for furs.

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

Incorporated in 1858, West Point marked its sesquicentennial in 2008.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin West ( 1858 – 1933 ), famous missionary doctor in Singapore and Penang

West Point became the county seat of Cuming County on October 12, 1858 after winning the election over the community of DeWitt.

In 1858 Joseph Taylor settled in the area that later became Farr West.

In June 1858, shortly after the Qing Court agreed to the disadvantageous treaties, more hawkish ministers prevailed upon the Xianfeng Emperor to resist encroachment by the West.

* George Barker Hall ( 1819 – 1858 ), lawyer, judge and political figure in Canada West

The Duke's three surviving sons became distinguished politicians ; the eldest, known after 1858 by the courtesy title Marquess of Hartington, led the Liberal Party and was asked three times to be Prime Minister by Queen Victoria ; Lord Frederick Cavendish was briefly Chief Secretary for Ireland and was assassinated in 1882 ; Lord Edward Cavendish was MP for West Derbyshire.

In 1858, Alexander Tilloch Galt made a motion in the Legislature at Kingston recommending that the Province of Canada ask the British Government to create a federal union of British North America ( Canada East and West, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia ) and Rupert's Land ( owned by the Hudson's Bay Company ).

In 1858, the EKR leased the remaining lines of the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway from Shortlands railway station, and also negotiated temporary running powers over the lines recently acquired by the LB & SCR, pending the construction of its own line into west London.

The West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway opened an engine shed off what is now Prince of Wales Drive 29 March 1858.

Dolliver was born in 1858 near Kingwood in Preston County, a Virginia county that would refuse to join the Confederacy and would instead remain in the Union as part of the new state of West Virginia.

From 1858 holidaymakers were brought to the resort and the steamers by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway terminus built in the centre of the town, and in 1894 a second railway station was opened higher up the hill on the West Highland Railway to Fort William.

The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway direct line from Bow to Barking was constructed east to west through the middle of the Parish of West Ham in 1858.

Of the 79 Rangers killed in the line of duty, thirty were killed during the Old West period of 1858 through 1901.

Originally part of Nichol Township, Elora was incorporated as a village in 1858 and remained as such until it was amalgamated with Fergus and portions of Eramosa, Nichol, Pilkington and West Garafraxa Townships to form Centre Wellington in 1999.

Cooper established the Medical College of the Pacific, the first medical school on the West Coast, in 1858, on Mission Street near 3rd Street in San Francisco.

In the New World, the first commercial oil well entered operation in Oil Springs, Ontario in 1858, while the first offshore oil well was drilled in 1896 at the Summerland Oil Field on the California Coast.

On August 26, 1858, Field returned to a triumphant homecoming at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, saluting this Massachusetts boy made good.

H. Gordon Selfridge was born in 1858 in Ripon, Wisconsin, and in 1879 joined Field, Leiter and Company ( later to become Marshall Field & Company ), where he worked for the famous Chicago retailer.

An inscription over the porch dated 1858 reads: " This house with 238 acres of land was purchased by 1623 of the friends, admirers and comrades in arms of the late Field Marshal Lord Raglan GCB and presented by them to his son and his heirs for ever in a lasting memorial of affectionate regard and respect ".

In March 1858, the Central India Field Force, led by Sir Hugh Rose, advanced on and laid siege to Jhansi.

" After graduation, Brewer read law for one year in the office of his uncle David Dudley Field, then enrolled at Albany Law School in Albany, New York, graduating in 1858.

* The Story of a Boulder: Or Gleanings from a Note-book of a Field Geologist ( 1858 )

The battalion was subsumed into the Azimghur Field Force on 29 March 1858.

In addition to the GMA, many independently owned collieries opened in the Sydney Coal Field after 1858, including several US-financed operations at New Victoria, Bridgeport, and Reserve Mines.

An inscription over the porch dated 1858 reads: “ This house with 238 acres of land was purchased by 1623 of the friends, admirers and comrades in arms of the late Field Marshal Lord Raglan GCB and presented by them to his son and his heirs for ever in a lasting memorial of affectionate regard and respect ”.

He soon instituted the first ‘ Field ’ trial of guns and rifles, which was carried out in April 1858 in the Ashburnham grounds at Chelsea adjacent to the famous Cremorne Gardens.

A vintage baseball club ( the House of David Echoes BBC ) has been honoring the legacy of the House of David teams since 2001, playing vintage baseball under the 1858 rules while growing their beards and playing at historic Eastman Field near Benton Harbor, Michigan.

In 1858 France formally laid claim to Clipperton.

*, laid down in 1858 and served in the American Civil War.

* Battersea Park, an 83 hectare green space laid out by Sir James Pennethorne between 1846 and 1864 and opened in 1858, and home to a zoo and the London Peace Pagoda.

Rolla was officially surveyed, laid out and named in 1858.

There was a brief setback in 1858 when a tornado swept through the down damaging Cochrane ’ s and Kent ’ s house and twisting the newly laid rails, but growth quickly resumed.

Heyworth was laid out by Campbell Wakefield on 11 September 1858.

The plat for the town of Mulberry was laid out by W. S. Perrin on October 1, 1858.

George Sims laid out Batesville ’ s first addition in 1858.

A settlement named Rosendale was laid out by the Minesota Mining Company in 1858.

is the fourth oldest town in Jasper County, Missouri today, founded in 1856 & platted and laid out for public use July 23, 1858 by Andrew L. Love and David S. Holman.

The town of Avilla was founded in 1856 & platted and laid out for public use July 23, 1858 by Andrew L. Love and David S. Holman.

Coal was first discovered at nearby Bevier, laid out, 1858, named for Col. Robert S. Bevier.

In 1858, the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad was completed when the final 96-mile stretch of rail from Goldsboro through Newport to Beaufort was laid.

The community was first known as Menardville when the site was laid out in 1858, after the formation of Menard County.

It was laid down later that year by Westervelt and his sons, launched in 1858, and commissioned on January 26, 1859 with Captain ( later Admiral ) David G. Farragut in command.

On August 15, 1858, the cornerstone was laid, just south of the diocese's orphanage.

All Saints ' Anglican Church, on the corner of Dandenong Road and Chapel Street, was designed by Nathaniel Billing with the foundation stone laid in 1858, becoming what is believed to be the largest Anglican parish church in the southern hemisphere, able to seat 1400 people, All Saints ' is also known for its male choir which is the only parish church choir of its kind left in Australia.

The foundation stone of St Patrick's Catholic Cathedral was laid in 1858 and that of St Paul's Anglican Cathedral in 1880.

In November 1858, he laid claim to an area across Cherry Creek from Auraria and named it " Denver City " in honor of James W. Denver, the current governor of the Kansas Territory.

The upper section ( Ano Poli ) is the older and the more picturesque ; however, the lower section ( Kato Poli ) is attractively laid out, according to the 1858 city plan, featuring a variety of squares.

Among the many famous ships made by the companies were the world's first steel ship, the Ma Roberts, built in 1858 for Dr. Livingstone's Zambezi expedition, CSS Alabama that was built in 1862 for the Confederate States of America, HMS Caroline ( 1914 ) that holds the record fastest build time of any significant warship ( nine months from her keel being laid till her launch ), the first all-welded ship, the Fullagar built in 1920, Cunard's second Mauretania of 1939, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal ( 1937 ) and the largest vessel to have been built for the Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal ( 1950 ).