It may not be coincidental that this was the year of the final opening of the railway from Bourne to King's Lynn, the line having been opened in stages from 1858.

The Bourne and Essendine Railway, begun at Essendine in 1858, opened on 16 May 1860.

One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.

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

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

In 1858 the Rifle Depot at Winchester was made their headquarters.

Between November 1858 and February 1859, Gladstone, on behalf of Lord Derby's government, was made Extraordinary Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands embarking via Vienna and Trieste on a twelve week mission to the southern Adriatic entrusted with complex challenges that had arisen in connection with the future of the British Protectorate of the Ionian islands.

* April 2 – Kate Bruce, veteran silent screen actress, made many films with D. W. Griffith ( b. 1858 )

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.

It wasn't until Heinrich Wilhelm Schott published Genera Aroidearum in 1858 and Prodromus Systematis Aroidearum in 1860 that major classification progress was made in the family.

Jacob Hamblin, a Mormon missionary, first made a trip into Hopi country in 1858.

In 1858, while staying with his aunt's family in Naples, he made the first studies for his early masterpiece, The Bellelli Family.

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

Santley made his operatic debut in Italy in 1858 and became one of Covent Garden's leading singers.

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.

The second floor of the courthouse was made into a school, and six school districts were organized for the county in 1858.

Topeka was made the county seat by popular vote in 1858, and a new courthouse was built at 4th Street and Kansas Avenue in 1867.

Lake Pleasant was a " mother town " of the county and other towns were made, in whole or part, by removing parts of its territory: Morehouse ( 1835 ), Arietta ( 1836 ), part of Long Lake ( 1837 ), part of Hope ( 1847 ), part of Wells, ( 1858 ), and part of Indian Lake ( 1861 ).

On the November 16, 1858, Judge Jordan made a decree erecting the township, and it was named Eldred, in honor of C. D. Eldred, who was then an associate on the bench.

European civilization first made its mark in the Lake Tahoe basin with the 1858 discovery of the Comstock Lode, a silver deposit just 15 miles ( 24 km ) to the east in Virginia City, Nevada.

Richard Dixon Oldham FRS ( 31 July 1858 – 15 July 1936 ) was a British geologist who made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a central core.

In consequence, after the attempt is made ( the Orsini incident of 1858 ), the Emperor makes him Minister of the Interior with power to maintain peace and national security at any cost.

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

He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1858 and made a Knight of the Garter in 1864.

In 1854 he became Privatdozent in the exegesis of the Old Testament in the Catholic Theological Faculty at Bonn ; in 1858 he was made extraordinary, and in 1861 ordinary, professor of theology in the same university.

Five attempts to lay the cable were made over a nine-year period – one in 1857, two in 1858, one in 1865, and one in 1866 – before lasting connections were finally achieved with the 1866 cable and the repaired 1865 cable by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern, captained by Sir James Anderson.

In the following few years, several different classes of increasing must weight were introduced, and the original Spätlese was further elaborated, first into Auslese in 1787 and later Eiswein in 1858 ( although Eiswein is usually made from grapes not affected by Botrytis ).

Already in 1858, when the museum was called the South Kensington Museum, it had the world ’ s first international photographic exhibition.

Fox Talbot worked on extending the process in the 1850s and patented it in 1852 (' photographic engraving ') and 1858 (' photoglyphic engraving ').

* John Waterhouse ( astronomer ) ( 1806 – 1879 ), the inventor in 1858 of photographic equipment known as Waterhouse stops

Stephens returned to Ireland and in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day 1858, following an organizing tour through the length and breadth of the country, founded the Irish counterpart of the American Fenians, the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

Gazpacho ( 1853 ) gives an account of his tour in Spain ; his Peloponnesus ( 1858 ) was a contribution to the knowledge of Greece.

214 ( also known as " Trish Trash Polka ") is a polka written by Johann Strauss II in 1858 after a successful tour of Russia where he performed in the summer concert season at Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg.

On August 19, 1858, two well-dressed thieves on a tour of the mint used a counterfeit key to open a display case.

The Lander Road, formally the Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake Wagon Road, was established and built by U. S. government contractors in 1858 – 59.

Great Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the territorial capital in 1858, and the name was subsequently abbreviated to Salt Lake City.

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

The name of the office was " Lake " from April 10, 1858, until February 18, 1863, when it reverted to Cheshire.

* 1858 – Sunrise Township established including all of today ’ s Sunrise Township, Harris, Fish Lake, Branch City and North Branch.

The American Fur Company, the Hudson's Bay Company and several other fur trading companies had active trapping and trading operations throughout the Red River Valley and Red Lake region prior to 1858.

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.

The Town of Indian Lake was established in 1858 from the Towns of Gilman ( now defunct ), Long Lake, and Wells.

Wells has been increased subsequent to its initial formation by parts of Mayfield ( 1812, 1816 ), Northampton ( 1816 ), and Lake Pleasant ( 1858 ).

There was a deed dated August 3, 1855, recorded October 21, 1858, in Salt Lake City in Records Book B. p. 128 that ostensibly sold Fort Bridger to the LDS Church.

In June 1858, as the majority of Johnston's Army set off for Salt Lake City, two companies of troops remained behind and established Fort Bridger as an official Army post.

Troops arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah in June 1858.

Ujiji is the place where Richard Burton and John Speke first reached the shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1858.

Records are limited but show that by 1858 over two dozen organizations had formed in some twelve Salt Lake City wards and in other outlaying settlements such as Ogden, Provo, Spanish Fork, and Manti, Utah.

Interrupted by the 1858 Utah War, no more than three or four of these independent ward organizations survived the temporary move of much of the Mormon population south of Salt Lake County.

* Exploration-British North America: The journals, detailed reports, and observations relative to the exploration, by Captain Palliser, of that portion of British North America, which, in latitude, lies between the British boundary line and the height of land or watershed of the northern or frozen ocean respectively, and in longitude, between the western shore of Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean during the years 1857, 1858, 1859, and 1860 ( 1863 )

Although the Mormons were the majority in the Great Salt Lake basin, the western area of the territory began to attract many non-Mormon settlers, especially after the discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1858.

In the LDS Church, Smith was ordained a seventy in March 1858 and a high priest and a member of the Salt Lake Stake high council in October 1858.