1858

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s – 1850s – 1860s 1870s 1880s
Years:	1855 1856 1857 – 1858 – 1859 1860 1861

1858 was a year that started on a Friday.

Events

Charles Darwin proposes the natural selection of species.
A civil war between conservatists and liberals starts in Mexico.
The British Empire or rule, begins in India after the surrender and exile of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II

January 7 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language (d. 1922)
January 10 – Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
January 11 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (d. 1947)
March 10 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
March 18 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
March 23 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)
April 23 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
June 16 – King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
June 16 – William Dickson Boyce, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1929)
July 9 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
August 1 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
August 11 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
August 27 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
September 18 – Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1955)
October 3 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
October 27 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
November 20 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
November 30 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
December 22 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
December 25 – Herman P. Faris, American temperance movement leader (d. 1936)