* 1858 – Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.

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.

* January 20 – Anson Jones, 5th and last President of the Republic of Texas ( d. 1858 )

The last castrato was Alessandro Moreschi ( 1858 – 1922 ) who served in the Sistine Chapel Choir.

The last major line was completed in 1858 to the east, with the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad connecting to an ocean port.

It is in this last road order, dated in July 1858, that the use of the name Rolla first appears in the court records.

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

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.

In 1858, the last Indian uprising occurred in Eastern Washington.

Barry was appointed architect to the Dulwich College estate in 1830, an appointment that last until 1858.

The last significant battle was fought in Gwalior on 17 June 1858, during which Rani Lakshmi Bai was killed.

* April 21-Alessandro Moreschi, the last known castrato singer of the Vatican .( b. 1858 )

The first was awarded in 1858 and the last in 1965.

The first 33 inmates arrived from Alton in May 1858 to begin construction ; the last prisoners were transferred in July 1860.

When Lord Aberdeen became prime minister in early 1852, he became Treasurer of the Household, a post he held until 1858, the last three years under the premiership of Lord Palmerston.

Bison once lived in the valleys of Banff, but were hunted by indigenous people and the last bison was killed off in 1858.

Although the Pony Express is often credited with being the first fast mail line across the North American continent to the Pacific coast, it was preceded by the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line, known as the " Jackass Mail " ( for the last 180 miles between Fort Yuma and San Diego accomplished on mule back instead of stagecoach ), which ran on a bi-monthly basis, 1500 miles between San Antonio, Texas and San Diego, California, from July 9, 1857 to December 1858 ; and by the Butterfield Overland Mail of George Chorpenning that predated the Pony Express by nearly three years.

His magnum opus is his Life of Milton in Connexion with the History of His Own Time in six volumes, the first of which appeared in 1858 and the last in 1880.

In July 1858 the Chinese empire signed the Treaty of Tianjin and Dengzhou was renamed for the last time.

The Royal English Opera company under the management of Louisa Pyne and William Harrison, made their last performance at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 11 December 1858 and took up residence at the theatre on 20 December 1858 with a performance of Michael Balfe's Satanella and continued at the theatre until 1864.

Maharaja Dalip Singh, last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire, lived at Castle Menzies between 1855 and 1858, following his exile from the Punjab in 1854.

In 1858, J. Tuff wrote of the market " several attempts have been made to revive it, the last of which, about twenty years ago, also proved a failure, It has again fallen into desuetude and will probably never be revived ".

Anson Jones ( January 20, 1798 – January 9, 1858 ) was a doctor, businessman, congressman, and the fourth and last President of the Republic of Texas, sometimes called the " Architect of Annexation.

In an attempt to blunt that reaction and reunite the Democratic party, presidential hopeful Stephen A. Douglas developed the Freeport Doctrine of popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

* 1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.

* Eight are killed and 142 wounded in Paris in a failed assassination attempt on Napoleon III, Emperor of the French ( 1858 ).

Abraham Lincoln's attempt to finance his own 1858 Senate run bankrupted him, even though he had arranged a number of $ 500 expense accounts from wealthy donors.

After the move south in 1858 ( see Utah War ) there was an attempt to rename the community Freedom, but Brigham Young convinced the residents to retain the old name.

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.

His first literary attempt, a volume of poems, was unsuccessful, leading him to devote himself for a time entirely to landscape painting ; he camped out in the Scottish Highlands, where he eventually rented the former island of Inistrynich in Loch Awe, upon which he settled with his wife, a Frenchwoman, in 1858.

In 1858 after Hotta Masayoshi ’ s disastrous attempt to obtain the emperor ’ s approval for the Harris treaty the Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Iesada ( 徳川家定 ), chose Ii Naosuke to be the Tairō ( Great Elder ); a decision influenced by the Kii Party.

Some historians claim that Wills was instrumental in setting up at least six " football " clubs in Geelong before his famous letter dated 10 July 1858 to Bell's Life in Victoria ( a Melbourne-based sporting publication ) in an attempt to stimulate interest in the athletic games.

On January 14, 1858, Felice Orsini, an Italian, led an attempt on Napoleon III's life.

This try was unsuccessful, but a second attempt met with success 10 August 1858.

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.

In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

Anton Diabelli, lithograph by Josef KriehuberAnton ( or Antonio ) Diabelli ( 5 September 17817 April 1858 ) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer of Italian descent.

Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.

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.

Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858 and, in 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.

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.

The Kanagawa treaty was followed by the United States-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce, the " Harris Treaty " of 1858, which allowed the establishment of foreign concessions, extraterritoriality for foreigners, and minimal import taxes for foreign goods.

Smith's economics was carried into practice in the 19th century with the lowering of tariffs in the 1820s, the repeal of the Poor Relief Act, that had restricted the mobility of labour, in 1834, and the end of the rule of the East India Company over India in 1858.

It was founded, as Nea Korinthos or New Corinth in 1858, after an earthquake destroyed the existing settlement of Corinth, which had developed in and around the site of ancient Corinth.

In 1858, the old city of Corinth ( now known as Archaia Korinthos ( Αρχαία Κόρινθος ), located SW of the modern city ), was totally destroyed by an earthquake.

The Kingdom of Rarotonga was established in 1858 and in 1888 it became a British protectorate by the request of Queen Makea Takau, mainly to thwart French expansionism.

He was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1858 and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1866.

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.

Rudolf Diesel was born in Paris in 1858 into a family of German expatriates.

The village of Eureka was platted in 1858 along the route of the Pacific Railroad.

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

The former HBC Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, was renamed in his honour by Governor Sir James Douglas in 1858 as Lytton, British Columbia.