page_title: 1858
section_title: July–September
hierarchical_section_title: 1858 / Events / July–September
caption_attribution_description: US postage stamp, 1958.
context_page_description: 1858 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1858th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 858th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1858, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: July
  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour goads Austria into attacking Sardinia.
  Pike's Peak Gold Rush: Fifty-Niners stream into the Rocky Mountains of the western United States.
  July 1 – A joint presentation of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, announcing a theory of evolution by natural selection, are read at London's Linnean Society.
  July 8 – A peace treaty ends the Indian Rebellion.
  July 12 –  The Advertiser, a daily newspaper still in circulation, begins publication in Adelaide, Australia.
  July 17 – The Lutine bell is salvaged, and subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London.
  July 28 – In Bengal/India, British officer William James Herschel uses the hand impression of Rajyadhar Konai, as a contract fingerprint signature.
  July 29 –  The United States and Japan sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, negotiated by Townsend Harris.
  August – The first aerial photography is carried out by Nadar, from a moored balloon in France.
  August 2 – The Government of India Act, passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, transfers the territories of the British East India Company and their administration to the direct rule of the British Crown, through a Secretary of State for India.
  August 2 – A bill is passed to create a modern sewage system in London as a result of the Great Stink, when the heat of the summer made the smell from sewage in the Thames unbearable.
  August 5 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable, after several unsuccessful attempts. The service ends on September 1, due to weak current.
  August 7 – A football match, played under an unknown set of rules, is held between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College.
  August 11 – The Eiger is first ascended.
  August 16 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
  August 21 – The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Illinois.
  September – Cochinchina Campaign: French warships, under Charles Rigault de Genouilly, attack and occupy Da Nang, Vietnam.
  September 11 – Dom, the third highest summit in the Alps, is first ascended.
caption: August 5: First transatlantic telegraph cable.
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