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unusual facts about 1858


Vienna Business School

The Handelsakademie Wien was founded in 1857, the second Handelsakademie in the Austrian Empire after Prague, and instruction started in the following year with five teachers and 59 pupils.


Aaron Harlan

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress and in 1861 to fill a vacancy in the Thirty-seventh Congress.

Ainsworth Blunt

Ainsworth Emery Blunt was born on February 22, 1800 in Amherst, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County) to John Isaac (1756-1836) and Sarah (Eames) Blunt (1765-1858).

Albert Bowen

Sir Albert Bowen, 1st Baronet (1858–1924), British-Argentinian businessman

Albert Osborn

Albert L. Osborn (1858–1940), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Anna Mebus Martin

Hewill Mebus lost his Solingen-based business in 1858, and the family made the decision to emigrate to Texas, where Henrietta Mebus's relatives resided.

Anton Janežič

In 1858, the magazine merged with the journal Vaje edited by Simon Jenko, Valentin Zarnik, and Janez Mencinger, to form the magazine Slovenski glasnik (The Slovene Herald), which attracted the collaboration of many important authors, including Fran Erjavec and Josip Jurčič.

Antonio De Viti De Marco

Antonio De Viti De Marco (Lecce, 30 September 1858 – Rome, 1 December 1943) was an Italian economist.

Baba Sawan Singh

Sawan Singh Grewal was born into a Sikh family on 27 July 1858 in village Jatala, District Ludhiana.

Bedford, Pennsylvania

While Buchanan was there the first trans-Atlantic cable message was sent to his room from Queen Victoria on August 17, 1858.

Bermuda Volunteer/Territorial Army Units 1895–1965

What was painfully clear to the citizenry of those Isles, when (following an assassination attempt on Emperor Napoleon III)there was a threat of invasion by the much larger French Army in 1858, was that Britain's military defences had already been stretched invitingly thin, even without sending a third of the Army to another Crimea.

Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company

Adolph and Leonard Lewisohn were German Jews whose father had established in 1858 an American subsidiary, Lewisohn Brothers, which bought and sold bristles, feathers, hair, metals, and wood.

Calculus of variations

Other valuable treatises and memoirs have been written by Strauch (1849), Jellett (1850), Otto Hesse (1857), Alfred Clebsch (1858), and Carll (1885), but perhaps the most important work of the century is that of Weierstrass.

Charles Hunter

Sir Charles Hunter, 3rd Baronet (1858–1924), Member of Parliament for Bath, 1910–1918

Charles S. Fairfax

Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was thrice married and his son by his third wife, Margaret Herbert (1783–1858), Albert, who had died during the lifetime of his father, left two sons, Charles and John.

Durant, Mississippi

It was founded in 1858 as a station on the Mississippi Central Railroad, later part of the Illinois Central.

Flag of Perak

Probably by coincidence, the flag resembles an inverted version of the Russian imperial colors that was in official use from 1858 to 1917.

Frances Anne Hopkins

In 1858, she married a Hudson's Bay Company official, Edward Hopkins, whose work took him to North America.

Francis Burns

He was the first Missionary Bishop, and the first African-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (elected in 1858).

Garden Club of America

Among its founding members was author and gardener Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1858-1920).

George Abercromby, 4th Baron Abercromby

Abercromby married Lady Julia Janet Georgiana Duncan (b. 1840), the daughter of Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown and his wife Juliana Cavendish Philips, at the earl's residence Camperdown House on 6 October 1858.

George Kent

Walter George Kent (1858–1938), chairman and managing director of the engineering firm George Kent Ltd which was started by his father George Kent

Harry Toulmin

Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr. (1858–1942), Ohio lawyer who drafted the Wright Brothers' patent application for their "flying machine"

Henry Ellsworth

Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (1791–1858), Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office

Henry Woodward

Henry Page Woodward (1858–1917), Australian coalmine owner, geologist, mining engineer and public servant

Hesychius of Alexandria

The best edition is by Moriz Wilhelm Constantin Schmidt (1858–1868), but no complete comparative edition of the manuscript has been published since it was first printed by Marcus Musurus (at the press of Aldus Manutius) in Venice, 1514 (reprinted in 1520 and 1521 with modest revisions).

Jean-François Le Gonidec

They were adopted immediately by Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué (1815–1895) and Auguste Brizeux (1803–1858), whose works, especially the former's Barzaz Breiz, founded modern Breton literature.

Joel Palmer

Between 1858 and 1861 he spent time in British Columbia as a merchant to prospectors in the gold rushes of the Thompson River, Similkameen Valley, and Fraser River.

John B. Snook

Snook's 620 Broadway (1858) – called the "Little Cary Building" for its resemblance to the Cary Building by Gamaliel King and John Kellum (1856) – was fronted with cast iron from Badger's Architectural Iron Works.

John Chamberlain

John Loomis Chamberlain (1858–1948), American army officer, recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal

John Moyse

In 1858, China sued for peace and agreed to the Treaty of Tientsin, which allowed the creation of French and English embassies in Beijing, and the Treaty of Aigun, which redrew Russia's border with China.

John Palmer

John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), English banker and Governor of the Bank of England

José Bonifácio the Younger

He became a Law teacher at the Faculdade de Direito do Recife during 1854-1858, where he taught and heavily influenced Castro Alves, Salvador de Mendonça, Joaquim Nabuco, Afonso Pena and Ruy Barbosa.

Joseph Projectus Machebeuf

He served as pastor at Albuquerque (1853–1858) and at Santa Fe (1858–1860) before being transferred to Colorado, where he was thrown from his carriage while descending a spur of the Rocky Mountains and lamed for life.

Juan N. Méndez

In 1858 he was made treasurer of the State of Puebla and prefect of the Department of Zacatlán.

Long Walk of the Navajo

They include the murder of a personal servant of Major Brooks, commander of Fort Defiance, by an arrow in the back on July 12, 1858 for the slaughter of the Navajo livestock on the grazing grounds.

Ludolf

George Philipp Ludolf von Beckedorff (1778-1858), prominent Prussian Roman Catholic convert and parliamentarian

Ludwig Thienemann

Friedrich August Ludwig Thienemann ( 25 December 1793, Freyburg – 24 June 1858, Dresden) was a German physician and naturalist.

Mary Harrison

Mary Harrison McKee (1858–1930), first lady to her father President Benjamin Harrison, when her mother, Caroline Harrison, was seriously ill and then died

Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac

When the Obrenović dynasty came back to Serbia in 1858, Blaznavac was immediately arrested and expelled to his native village of Blaznava and deprived of all titles.

Millwall

On 31 January 1858, the largest ship of that time, the SS Great Eastern designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was launched from Napier Yard, the shipyard leased by Messrs J Scott Russell & Co.

Mormon War

Utah War, a conflict in 1857–1858 between Latter Day Saints in Utah Territory and the United States federal government

Office of Education

On Monday, February 1, 1858, a petition of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture was presented to the Senate "praying that a donation of land be made to each of the States for the establishment of agricultural colleges." Neither of the proposals was accepted until the time of the Lincoln administration (1861–65), after which it became necessary to gather information on the many schools already in existence, as well as on those being built.

Old Dawson Trail

In 1857, the Canadian government commissioned engineer Simon J. Dawson to survey a route from Lake Superior to the Red River Colony, thereby allowing travel from the east without having to take the existing routes through the United States Dawson surveyed the route in 1858 and construction of the roads began in 1868.

Raymond P. Rodgers

He was also the grandnephew to two renowned U.S. Navy commodores, Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858) and Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819).

Sarah Rhodes

On 1 December 1807 in Leeds, Sarah married a banker, Stephen Nicholson (1779 Chapel Allerton -23 Feb 1858 Roundhay), son of William Nicholson and Grace Whitaker, who inherited Roundhay Park and Chapel Allerton estates on 8 February 1833 after the death of his older half-brother Thomas' widow.

Sisters of the Child Jesus

Through the work of different foundresses in other cities of France, other autonomous congregations became to develop: Digne (1840), Claveisolles (1858) and Chauffailles (1859).

TF Carrier

Launched in 1858, the Carrier was the third and smallest vessel in a fleet of six train ferries introduced by Thomas Bouch, the engineer of the ENR/NBR, to carry the company's trains across the Forth and Tay estuaries.

Thomas Edmonds

Thomas Edmonds (manufacturer) (1858–1932), a philanthropist from Christchurch famous for his 'Sure to Rise' baking powder and the Edmonds Cookery Book

Uruma, Okinawa

The island, which was sighted by Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794 – 1858), was recorded as "Ichey Island" in the Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, published in 1856 by Francis L. Hawks.

William Packer

William F. Packer (1807–1870), governor of Pennsylvania from 1858 to 1861


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