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Revision as of 08:53, 15 March 2003
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s - 1860s - 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years: 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 - 1863 - 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868
Events
- January 1 - Abraham Lincoln delivers the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War.
- January 1 - The first claim under the Homestead Act is made for a farm in Nebraska
- January 11 - American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post - General John McClernand and Admiral David Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
- January 10 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street).
- February 10 - The world-famous midgets General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
- February 1 - Alanson Crane patents the fire extinguisher.
- February 24 - Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
- February 26 - President of the United States Abraham Lincoln signs the National Currency Act into law.
- March 3 - Idaho is organized as a United States territory.
- May 2 - May 4 - General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville
- May 31 - First running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe horse race
- July 2 - July 3 - Union forces turn back a Confederate invasion at the Battle of Gettysburg
- July 4 - The Confederate city of Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders after a 47 day siege.
- November 19 - Gettysburg Address
- Thomas Nast draws the modern Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly, although Santa existed previously.
- Construction begins on the First Transcontinental Railroad in Sacramento, California
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
- Renan's La Vie de Jésus.
- The children's novel The Water-Babies.
Births
- January 15 - Wilhelm Marx, German politician, chancellor of the Weimar Republic
- January 17 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- March 12 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet (+ 1938)
- July 1 - William Stairs, Victorian explorer
- January 12 - Swami Vivekananda
Deaths
- May 10 - Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Confederate Army general
- August 13 - Eugene Delacroix, painter
- September 17 - Alfred de Vigny, author