Verdi rival Errico Petrella's most successful opera, Jone ( 1858 ), was based upon Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii, and was performed all over the world until the First World War.

During the early 1850s, two German Egyptologists, Heinrich Brugsch and Max Uhlemann, produced revised Latin translations based on the demotic and hieroglyphic texts ; the first English translation, the work of three members of the Philomathean Society at the University of Pennsylvania, followed in 1858.

The arbitration, as instructed by the Crown, was based on legal argument and documentation, and led to the Cornwall Submarine Mines Act of 1858.

This name was based on maps drawn from around 1850 through 1858 that labeled the area between Dallas and Fort Worth " the grand prairie of Texas ".

After 1858, Kido was based at the domain's Edo residence, where he served as liaison between the domain bureaucracy and radical elements among the young, lower-echelon Chōshū samurai who supported the Sonnō jōi movement.

He was the friend of many contemporaries, including Thackeray ; his reputation is based on the two volumes of essays, Horae Subsecivae ( Leisure Hours ) ( 1858, 1861 ), John Leech and Other Papers ( 1882 ), Rab and His Friends ( 1859 ), and Marjorie Fleming: a Sketch ( 1863 ).

By 1858, the center of cotton trading had shifted from the South to New York City, where factors and commission houses were based.

In 1858 Fenton made studio genre studies based on romantically imaginative ideas of Muslim life, such as Seated Odalisque, using friends and models who were not always convincing in their roles.

Because of the disruptions of the War of Reform and the French Intervention that wracked Mexico from 1858 to 1867, few properties were actually sold as a direct result of the Ley Lerdo ; most of the " disruptions " attributed to that law actually occurred later, under legislation passed during the regime of Porfirio Díaz based on that " Ley " as reference.

Founded in 1858, Johns Manville is an American corporation based in Denver, Colorado that manufactures insulation, roofing materials, and engineered products.

He tried to write a long epic poem, Os Eoas, based on the descovery of America, but he was never satisfied with his work and only published a first draft in 1858.

Anachronistically, Lord Sanjiro is based on Shimazu Nariakira, although the Satsuma daimyo of the period was Shimazu Tadayoshi the second, as Nariakira died in 1858.

By 1858, the rights to dock ownership and revenues were transferred to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, based in Liverpool.

Thomas Hamilton ( 11 January 1784 – 24 February 1858 ) was a Scottish architect, based in Edinburgh.

Evidently the Plough dance depicted by Phiz in his illustrations for Harrison Ainsworth's 1858 novel Mervyn Clitheroe, and Ainsworth's description, is based on this or a similar account: The Twelfth Night ( holiday ) | Twelfth Night gathering in Harrison Ainsworth's Mervyn Clitheroe ( 1858 ), illustrated by Phiz, depicting the northern Fool Plough dance.

The arbitration, as instructed by the Crown, was based on legal argument and documentation, led to the Cornwall Submarine Mines Act of 1858.

Cooper's Sandpiper, " Calidris " × cooperi was described ( as Tringa cooperi ) by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1858 based on a specimen collected on Long Island, New York, in May 1833 and deposited at the American Museum of Natural History.

The original economic development of Port Elgin during the 19th century was based on its harbour facilities on Lake Huron constructed in 1857 – 1858.

One of his best historical themes was " Maria Stuarda ", ( Mary Stuart at the battlefield of Langside ) painted between 1858 and 1860, based on his reading of Walter Scott.

The members farthest from New York in the early years were the Liberty club of New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1858, the only one of 25 members outside modern New York City ; Niagara of Buffalo, New York in 1859, when the next furthest of 50 members was based in Trenton, New Jersey ; and Detroit of Detroit, Michigan in 1860, when five of 59 members were from outside New Jersey and New York states, the other four being in Washington, Baltimore, New Haven, and Boston.

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.

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.

The eldest of seven children, Housman was born at Valley House in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, to Sarah Jane ( née Williams, married 17 Jun 1858 in Woodchester, Gloucester ) and Edward Housman ( whose family came from Lancaster ), and was baptized on 24 Apr 1859 at Christ Church, in Catshill.

Archibald Scott Couper in 1858 and Joseph Loschmidt in 1861 suggested possible structures that contained multiple double bonds or multiple rings, but the study of aromatic compounds was in its earliest years, and too little evidence was then available to help chemists decide on any particular structure.

Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm ( now Iowa State University ) was officially established on March 22, 1858, by the legislature of the State of Iowa.

In March 1857 the uninhabited island was claimed for the United States under the Guano Islands Act and formally annexed on 27 February 1858.

* 1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.

* 1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.

* Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris: Ary Scheffer, Portrait of Calvin, oil on canvas, 1858

This was awarded to him on 23 April 1858.

* In 1888, Friedrich Reinitzer ( 1858 – 1927 ) discovered the liquid crystalline nature of cholesterol extracted from carrots ( that is, two melting points and generation of colors ) and published his findings at a meeting of the Vienna Chemical Society on May 3, 1888 ( F. Reinitzer: Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Cholesterins, Monatshefte für Chemie ( Wien ) 9, 421 – 441 ( 1888 )).

1858 portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy | GPA Healy, on display at the White House

In 1858, the Society agreed to the project in principle, with the title A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles ( NED ).

Under a federalist constitution that was later brought up in 1858 ( and another one in 1863 ), Panama and other constituent states gained almost complete autonomy on many levels of their administration, which led to an often anarchic national state of affairs that lasted roughly until Colombia's return to centralism in 1886 with the establishment of a new Republic of Colombia.

Antonio López also resented having been forced to grant Brazil free navigation rights on the Río Paraguay in 1858.

* Both countries established diplomatic relations on May 2, 1858.

As well, von Siebold's assistant and later successor, Heinrich Bürger ( 1806 – 1858 ), proved to be indispensable in carrying on von Siebold's work in Japan.

Meanwhile, in Bellevuestraße, sandwiched between Café Josty and the Hotel Esplanade but extending right through the block with a separate entrance in Potsdamer Straße, was the Weinhaus Rheingold, built by Bruno Schmitz ( 1858 – 1916 ) and opened on 6 February 1907.

London also recorded one of the earlier extreme cases of water quality problems with the Great Stink on the Thames of 1858, which led to construction of the London sewerage system soon afterward.

The Suez Canal Company ( Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez ) came into being on 15 December 1858 and work started on the shore of the future Port Said on 25 April 1859.

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 ).