1858-1860 жылдардағы маңызды оқиғалар

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January 21 – José Mariano Salas (1797–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. January 24 (O. S.) – Under the rule of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia are united under the jurisdiction of the Ottoman Empire. It would be a principal step in forming the modern state of Romania. January 28 – The city of Olympia is incorporated in the Washington Territory of the United States of America. February 2 – Miguel Miramón (1832–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. February 4 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Khedivate of Egypt. February 14 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U. S. state. February 12 – The Mekteb i Mülkiye School is founded in the Ottoman Empire. February 17 – French naval forces under Charles Rigault de Genouilly capture the city and Citadel of Saigon in Vietnam, beginning the Siege of Saigon. February 27 – United States Congressman Daniel Sickles shoots Philip Barton Key (U. S. District Attorney) for having an affair with his wife. March 3 – Construction begins on the first railway in northern India as tracks are laid between the modern day locations of Allahabad and Kanpur. March 9 – The army of the Kingdom of Sardinia mobilizes against Austria, beginning the crisis which will lead to the Austro Sardinian War. March 21 – Pennsylvania issues the charter establishing the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the first organization of its kind in the United States, and founder of the nation's first zoo. March 26 – French amateur astronomer Edmond Modeste Lescarbault claims to have noticed a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury (later named Vulcan).

District nursing begins in Liverpool, England, when philanthropist William Rathbone employs Mary Robinson to nurse the sick poor in their own homes. The island of Timor is divided between Portugal and the Netherlands. The Rancho Rincon de Los Esteros Land Grant is confirmed to Rafael Alvisa (part of the present Santa Clara County, California). Bernhard Riemann in November 1859 publishes On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude. In his paper there is an incidental comment that later becomes the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the most important unsolved problems in Mathematics. Brisbane is declared the capital of newly separated colony Queensland, Australia. The University of Michigan Law School is founded. Karl Marx publishes A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. John Stuart Mill publishes On Liberty. George Eliot publishes Adam Bede. Alfred, Lord Tennyson publishes the first set of Idylls of the King. The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women is founded. The Mary Institute is founded in Missouri. Tidskrift för hemmet, the first women's magazine in the Nordic countries, begins publication in Sweden. Nillmij, as predecessor of Aegon, a worldwide insurance service, founded in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).

April 3 – Reginald De Koven, American composer, music critic (d. 1920)
April 7 – Jacques Loeb, German–American physiologist, biologist (d. 1924)
April 8 – Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1938)
April 14 – Luigi Capello, Italian general (d. 1941)
April 17 – Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1941)
May 1 – Jacqueline Comerre Paton, French artist (d. 1955)
May 15 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (d. 1930)
June 5 – Belle Archer, American actress (d. 1900)
June 9 – Doveton Sturdee, British admiral (d. 1925)
June 21 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist (d. 1937)

Vittorio Alinari, Italian photographer (d. 1932)
Stanisław Roman Lewandowski, Polish sculptor (d. 1940)
Margaret Manton Merrill, English American journalist and writer (d. 1893)

January 19 – George Schonswar, British politician (b. 1775)
January 21 – Henry Hallam, English historian (b. 1777)
January 28 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
February 13 – Eliza Acton, English poet, cookery writer (b. 1799)
February 27 – Philip Barton Key, U. S. District Attorney (b. 1818)
April 8 – Sir Joseph Thackwell, British army general (b. 1781)
April 16 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
May 6 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and geographer (b. 1769)
May 13 – Bakht Khan, commander in chief of Indian rebel forces in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (b. 1797)
June 11 – Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian diplomat (b. 1773)
June 13 – Angélique Brûlon, French soldier, first female Knight of the French Legion of Honour (b. 1772)
June 15 – Mark Newman, 3rd Principal of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. (b. 1772)
June 23 – Maria Pavlovna, Dowager Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar Eisenach (b. 1786)