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.

The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. " the Mainland ", became a British colony in 1858.

In June 1858, when her husband was standing as parliamentary candidate for Hertfordshire, she indignantly denounced him at the hustings.

The Richmond Theatre, Richmond, Virginia, in 1858, when Booth made his first stage appearance there

In 1858, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Terre Haute, Indiana but was disappointed when Usher refused to offer him a place in his office.

The relatively peaceful Utah War ensued from 1857 to 1858, in which the most notable instance of violence was the Mountain Meadows massacre, when leaders of a local Mormon militia ordered the killing of a civilian emigrant party that was traveling through Utah during the escalating tensions.

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.

In 1858, Morse introduced wired communication to Latin America when he established a telegraph system in Puerto Rico, then a Spanish Colony.

Darwin was hard at work on his " big book " on Natural Selection, when on 18 June 1858 he received a parcel from Wallace, who stayed on the Maluku Islands ( Ternate and Gilolo ).

Darwin had his basic theory of natural selection " by which to work " by December 1838, yet almost twenty years later, when Wallace's letter arrived on 18 June 1858, Darwin was still not ready to publish his theory.

Having met with no success farming, the Grants left the St. Louis farm when their fourth and final child was born in 1858.

A previous school, the Cooper Medical College of the University of Pacific ( founded 1858 ), entered a period of uncertainty in 1862 when its founder, Dr. Elias Samuel Cooper, died.

The wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, to Prince Fredrick William of Prussia in 1858 also introduced choral music to the processional when standard practice had been to have music of any kind only during a party after the wedding ceremony.

Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey and lasted until 1858 when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of India in the new British Raj.

Arthur's mother, Harriet, died in 1858 when Arthur was seven.

While he was mainly ignored by the intellectual world when he published his writings, Giuseppe Peano ( 1858 – 1932 ) and Bertrand Russell ( 1872 – 1970 ) introduced his work to later generations of logicians and philosophers.

Even when Medical Act 1858 was introduced, which stated that medical students could qualify as doctors, midwifery was entirely ignored.

From 1815 to 1903, Principality of Serbia was ruled by the House of Obrenović, except from 1842 to 1858, when it was led by Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević.

Benicia was also the county seat of Solano County until 1858, when that was moved to Fairfield.

Battle Abbey remained in the Webster family until 1858 ; when it was sold by the sixth baronet, who died in 1853, to Lord Harry Vane, later Duke of Cleveland.

He was one of four brothers who may have been born in Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland to an Irish speaking mother, Máire Ní Scannláin, and John Holland, and learned English properly only when he attended the local English-speaking National School system and, from 1858, in the Christian Brothers in Ennistymon.

The lake was first sighted by a European in 1858 when the British explorer John Hanning Speke reached its southern shore while on his journey with Richard Francis Burton to explore central Africa and locate the Great Lakes.

The Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack at the Alameda County Fairgrounds is the oldest horse racing track in America, dating back to 1858, when it was founded by the sons of the Spaniard Don Agustin Bernal.

In April 1858 she suffered an " hysterical attack " and died the following day in unclear circumstances.

In April 1858 Wagner's wife Minna intercepted a note from Wagner to Mathilde, and, despite Wagner's protests that she was putting a " vulgar interpretation " on the note, she accused first Wagner and then Mathilde of unfaithfulness.

Popularly known in Piedmontese as " Bela Rosin " ( Little Rosa the Beautiful ), she was born a commoner but made Countess of Mirafiori and Fontanafredda in 1858.

Popularly known in Piedmontese as " Bela Rosin ", she was born a commoner but made Countess of Mirafiori and Fontanafredda in 1858.

In 1855, she married John Millais and eventually bore him eight children: Everett, born in 1856 ; George, born in 1857 ; Effie, born in 1858 ; Mary, born in 1860 ; Alice, born in 1862 ; Geoffroy, born in 1863 ; John in 1865 ; and Sophie in 1868.

Johanna Kinkel lost her life in late 1858 when she fell or threw herself out of a window.

May Robson ( April 19, 1858 – October 20, 1942 ) was an actress and playwright whose career spanned 58 years, starting in 1883 when she was 25 years of age.

The couple had six children: Julia Romana Howe ( 1844 – 1886 ) married Michael Anagnos, a Greek scholar who succeeded Dr. Howe as director of the Perkins Institute ; Florence Marion Howe ( 1845 – 1922 ), an author, she wrote a well-known treatise on manners and was married to lawyer David Prescott Hall ; Henry Marion Howe ( 1848 – 1922 ), a metallurgist who lived in New York ; Laura Elizabeth Howe ( 1850 – 1943 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to Henry Richards and lived in Maine ; Maud Howe ( 1855 – 1948 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to an English muralist and illustrator, John Elliott ; Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr. ( 1858 – 1863 ).

On 11 February 1858, Bernadette, then aged 14, was out gathering firewood and bones with her sister Marie and a friend near the grotto of Massabielle ( Tuta de Massavielha ) when she had her first vision.

Her Spanish name was in honor of her godmother, Maria Consuelo Iznaga Clement ( 1858 – 1909 ), a half-Cuban, half-American socialite who created a social stir a year earlier when she married the fortune-hunting George Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, a union of Old World and New World that caused the groom's father, the 7th Duke of Manchester, to openly wonder if his son and heir had married a " Red Indian.

In 1858 he married Eliza Roscoe, a cousin of his first wife ; she died early in 1897, and Hutton's own death followed in the same year.

In 1835, Chapman assumed the leadership of the Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar, which had been founded the previous year by Lydia Maria Child and Louisa Loring, and remained in charge of the fair until 1858, when she unilaterally made the decision to replace the bazaar with the Anti-Slavery Subscription Anniversary.

Between 1839 and 1858 she edited The Liberty Bell, an annual anti-slavery gift book that was sold at the Boston Bazaar.

On February 11, 1858, she married again, to Philip Pendelton Dandridge.

She subsequently joined the school's faculty, teaching grammar, rhetoric, and history ; she remained there until three days before her wedding on March 5, 1858.

The family sold up and moved to the Hunter Valley in 1857 but James died in 1858 leaving Mary with six children so she returned opened another business and in 1861 she opened the town's first inn.

Cornelia “ nina ” Clemson was born in October 1855, but just a few years into her life in 1858, she died from Scarlet Fever.

In 1858 she published her first book Jedyne praktyczne przepisy wszelkich zapasów spiżarnianych oraz pieczenia ciast ( The only practical compendium of recipes for all household stocks and pastry ).

The daughter of Francis W. Wilson ( c. 1788 – 1858 ), a clerk, and his wife, Margaret Oliphant ( c. 1789 – 1854 ), she was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian, and spent her childhood at Lasswade ( near Dalkeith ), Glasgow and Liverpool.