WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JULY 1858
Find out what all happened March to July 1858

Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. (15. May 1858)

United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty. (29. July 1858)

Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society. (1. July 1858)

The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny. (16. June 1858)

Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. (16. June 1858)

After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry. (10. April 1858)

The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up. (16. April 1858)

Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State. (11. May 1858)

Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory. (18. June 1858)