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Type	Date Span	Title
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, April 4, 1858	Easter Sunday
Foreign	Mon, April 5, 1858	The Boulevard de Sebastopol, the latest of Haussmann's tranformations of Paris, is opened
Cultural	Tue, April 6, 1858	The Ladies' Mount Vernon Association acquire Mount Vernon from the Washington family
Religion/Philosophy	Tue, April 6, 1858	Passover ends
Personal	Wed, April 7, 1858	John Brown meets with Harriet Tubman in Canada
Personal	Sat, April 10, 1858	Senator Thomas Hart Benton, "Old Bullion," dies of cancer in Washington, D.C.
Religion/Philosophy	Thu, April 15, 1858	The Muslim feast of Ramadan begins
Personal	Thu, April 15, 1858	Emile Durkheim, one of the founders of Sociology, is born in Alsace-Lorraine
Business/Industry	Thu, April 15, 1858	Minnesota bond issue brings in $2,275,000
Foreign	Sat, April 17, 1858	Mexican conservative Miguel Miramón leads his troops to victory over liberal forces at San Luís Potosí
Personal	Fri, April 23, 1858	Max Planck, who will become one of the prime movers of quantum physics, is born in Kiel, Germany
Legal/Political	Fri, April 30, 1858	John Brown arrives in Chatham, Ontario for a series of secret meetings
Foreign	Sat, May 1, 1858	Nicaragua and Costa Rica appeal to the European powers for protection against filibusters
Business/Industry	Sat, May 1, 1858	Gold discovered on the Fraser River in British Columbia
Foreign	Tue, May 4, 1858	Liberal leader Benito Juárez returns to Mexico from exile in the US and the Caribbean
Personal	Thu, May 6, 1858	Josiah James Evans, Senator from South Carolina, dies in office in Washington, D.C.
Lawmaking/Litigating	Fri, May 7, 1858	Abraham Lincoln wins the famous "Almanac Case" in Beardstown, Illinois
Legal/Political	Sat, May 8, 1858	At the Chatham Convention in Ontario, John Brown sets up his Provisional Constitution
Foreign	Mon, May 10, 1858	Divorce becomes a little easier in the United Kingdom
Lawmaking/Litigating	Tue, May 11, 1858	Minnesota is admitted to the Union as the 32nd state
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, May 12, 1858	Comanches defeated at the Battle of Little Robe Creek in Oklahoma and their chief, Iron Jacket, killed
Legal/Political	Thu, May 13, 1858 - Fri, May 14, 1858	Eighth National Women's Rights Convention held in New York City
US/the World	Thu, May 13, 1858	United States signs a commercial and friendship treaty with Bolivia in La Paz
Personal	Mon, May 17, 1858	The British-born writer Henry William Herbert shoots himself in the Stevens House Hotel in New York City
Science/Technology	Tue, May 18, 1858	Baltimore gets its first steam fire engine
Military/Violent	Wed, May 19, 1858	Missouri "border ruffians" murder five freesoilers near Marais des Cygnes in Kansas
Lawmaking/Litigating	Sun, May 23, 1858	Minnesota puts together its new state government in its capital of St. Paul
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, May 23, 1858	Whitsunday or Pentecost
Personal	Tue, June 1, 1858	Moncure Conway marries Ellen Dana in Cincinnati, Ohio
Science/Technology	Wed, June 2, 1858	Giovanni Donati discovers his comet