What Happened in July 1858

Historical Events

Jul 1 1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent) at the Royal Mint in London, England

Jul 1 Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society renders audience awestruck and silent [1]

Jul 2 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
Jul 6 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
Jul 17 Recovery of the bell of HMS Lutine from ship's wreck, hung from rostrum in Lloyd's of London's Underwriting Room
Jul 20 Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)

Jul 20 Gathering of Plombieres: French Emperor Napoleon III meets the Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, Count Cavour

Jul 23 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
Jul 26 Baron Lionel de Rothschild becomes the 1st Jewish person elected to the British Parliament
Jul 28 First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service
Jul 28 French photographer and balloonist Nadar takes the 1st airborne photo, in a balloon, of French village of Petit-Becetre 80 meters in the air
Jul 29 Treaty of Amity and Commerce/Harris Treaty signed between US and Japan opening Japanese ports to trade

Jul 1 Willard Metcalf, American painter known chiefly for his Impressionist landscape work, and instructor, born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 1925)
Jul 7 José Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese archeologist, ethnologist, and writer (Etnografia Portuguesa), born in Ucanha, Portugal (d. 1941)

Jul 9 German-American anthropologist and linguist (Mind of Primitive Man), born in Minden, Westphalia, Prussia

Jul 10 Karl Flodin, Finnish composer and critic, born in Vaasa, Finland (d. 1925)
Jul 13 Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)

Jul 15 British suffragette who formed the Women's Social & Political Union (1903), born in Moss Side, Manchester

Jul 16 Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violin virtuoso (Caesar Franck's sonata), composer (Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27), educator (Brussels Conservatoire, 1881-98), and conductor (Cincinnati Symphony, 1918-22), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1931)
Jul 20 Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
Jul 21 Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist, born in Sandhurst, Victoria (d. 1941)
Jul 21 Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
Jul 21 Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain, born in Židlochovice Castle, Moravia (d. 1929)
Jul 24 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920), born in New York City (d. 1922)
Jul 26 Tom Garrett, Australian cricket all-rounder (19 Tests, TS 51no, 34 wickets; NSW CA), born in Wollongong, Australia (d. 1943)
Jul 31 Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1936)