1858 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1858 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 2 Undated 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

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• 25 January - 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, "Vicky," the Princess Royal to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St. James's Palace, London. ^[1]
• 30 January - Hallé Orchestra founded by Charles Hallé in Manchester. ^[1]
• 13 February - Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke become the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika. ^[1]
• 1 July - Papers by Darwin and Wallace announcing a theory of Evolution by natural selection read at London's Linnaean Society.
• 17 July - Salvage of the Lutine bell, which is subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London.
• 28 July - In Bengal/India, British officer William James Herschel used hand impression of Rajyadhar Konai as a contract fingerprint signature.
• 16 August - US President James Buchanan inaugurates the new trans-Atlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
• 26 August - The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce signed.

[edit] Undated

• British Empire takes over powers and properties of the British East India Company.
• British stop using prison hulks.
• Mirror galvanometer invented by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin.
• The Miners Association established in Cornwall.

[edit] Births

• 22 January - Beatrice Webb, socialist, economist and reformer (d. 1943)
• 23 April - Ethel Smyth, composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement (d. 1944)
• 15 August - E. Nesbit, author (d. 1924)
• 16 September - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)

[edit] Deaths

• 10 June - Robert Brown, botanist (born 1773)
• 3 November - Harriet Taylor Mill, philosopher and women's rights advocate (born 1807)
• 23 November - Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, admiral (b. 1790)

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