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Type	Date Span	Title
Lawmaking/Litigating	Wed, February 3, 1858	William Walker and his companions are indicted in New Orleans under the Neutrality Laws
Crime/Disasters	Sat, February 6, 1858	Yale students and local volunteer firemen battle in New Haven and a young fireman is fatally shot
Religion/Philosophy	Thu, February 11, 1858	A fourteen-year old girl gathering wood near Lourdes in rural France encounters the first of her visions of "a Lady."
Crime/Disasters	Sat, February 13, 1858	The New York Insane Asylum on Blackwell's Island is destroyed by fire but no lives are lost
Personal	Tue, February 16, 1858	William Guerrier of the Ward and Guerrier Company dies in an explosion in Wyoming
Religion/Philosophy	Wed, February 17, 1858	Ash Wednesday
Personal	Thu, February 18, 1858	Millard Fillmore marries Mrs. Caroline Carmichael McIntosh in Albany, New York
Crime/Disasters	Sat, February 20, 1858	The Pacific Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri burns with significant loss of life
Foreign	Sat, February 20, 1858	The Government falls in Britain; Lord Palmerston's Coalition gives way to the Earl of Derby's Conservatives
Crime/Disasters	Sat, February 20, 1858	Merchant ship wrecked off Long Island, New York with no survivors amongst its crew
Business/Industry	Sun, February 21, 1858	First burglar alarm installed
Crime/Disasters	Sun, February 21, 1858	In Greece, a large earthquake destroys much of the ancient city of Corinth
Personal	Sun, February 21, 1858	John Kintzing Kane, the U.S. District Judge who ruled against Passmore Williamson in the Jane Johnson case, dies in Philadelphia
Cultural	Mon, February 22, 1858	The Virginia Washington Monument is unveiled in Richmond with Crawford's equestrian statue of Washington as its centerpiece
Religion/Philosophy	Mon, February 22, 1858	First Sunday in Lent
Foreign	Mon, March 1, 1858	Jose Desiderio Valverde becomes the new President of the Dominican Republic
Commercial	Tue, March 2, 1858	The metallic tie for cotton bales patented
Personal	Thu, March 4, 1858	Commodore Perry dies at his home in New York City
Foreign	Sun, March 7, 1858	The two year sporadic revolt in Peru finally ends and peace returns to Peruvian politics
Legal/Political	Sun, March 7, 1858	President Buchanan reappoints Isaac Cook as Chicago Postmaster
Commercial	Tue, March 9, 1858	Street letter box patented in Philadelphia
Foreign	Wed, March 10, 1858	Civil war erupts in Mexico
Foreign	Sat, March 13, 1858	Felice Orsini and Guiseppe Pieri, unsuccessful assassins of Napoleon III, are executed in Paris
Lawmaking/Litigating	Fri, March 19, 1858	Governor Banks of Massachusetts signs the order removing Judge Edward Greely Loring as Judge of Probate for Suffolk County
Science/Technology	Sat, March 20, 1858	First day of Spring
Business/Industry	Tue, March 23, 1858	The Cable Car is patented in Philadelphia
Personal	Tue, March 23, 1858	Thomas B. Cuming, twice governor of Nebraska Territory, dies in office aged thirty.
Business/Industry	Tue, March 30, 1858	The first pencil with attached eraser patented in Philadelphia
Business/Industry	Wed, March 31, 1858	New railroad completed linking Jackson, Mississippi with New Orleans
Religion/Philosophy	Fri, April 2, 1858	Good Friday