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Type	Date Span	Title
Science/Technology	Sun, October 10, 1858	Donati's Comet passes at its closest to the Earth
Cultural	Tue, October 12, 1858 - Sat, October 16, 1858	The highly influential Association for the Promotion of Social Science holds its second annual meeting in Liverpool, England
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, October 13, 1858	Lincoln and Douglas hold their sixth, and most acrimonious, debate in Quincy, Illinois
Campaigns/Elections	Fri, October 15, 1858	Lincoln and Douglas hold their final debate in Alton, Illinois
Personal	Fri, October 15, 1858	Future boxing champion John L. Sullivan born to Irish immigrant parents in Boston
Business/Industry	Sat, October 16, 1858	Suffolk Bank announces its intention to end the Suffolk Banking System in force since 1824
Education/Culture	Sat, October 16, 1858	London based philanthropist George Peabody donates a further $200,000 to the Peabody Institute in Baltimore
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, October 17, 1858	In New Mexico, an audacious Navajo attack on the Fort Defiance livestock herd is driven off
Cultural	Thu, October 21, 1858	Offenbach's operetta "Orpheus in the Underworld" opens in Paris and introduces the world to the "can-can"
Foreign	Sat, October 23, 1858	The dispute between France and Portugal over the slave ship "Charles-et-Georges" is settled
Slavery/Abolition	Mon, October 25, 1858	Senator Seward gives his famous "irrepressible conflict" speech in Rochester, New York
Personal	Wed, October 27, 1858	Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City
Business/Industry	Thu, October 28, 1858	Rowland Hussey Macy opens his new New York City store for its first day of business and has takings of $11.06
Personal	Sun, October 31, 1858	The last of Wolfgang Mozart's sons dies in Milan
Religion/Philosophy	Mon, November 1, 1858	All Saints Day
Foreign	Mon, November 1, 1858	Queen Victoria is proclaimed throughout India as Queen; Lord Canning is to be the first Viceroy of India
Legal/Political	Mon, November 1, 1858	A Reform Association is constituted in Baltimore to attempt to bring order to the city
Campaigns/Elections	Tue, November 2, 1858	Illinois Democrats retain control of the state legislature in the November 1858 election
Religion/Philosophy	Tue, November 2, 1858	Quakers moderate their demands in marriage and in dress
Personal	Wed, November 3, 1858	Harriet Taylor Mill, wife of and collaborator with John Stuart Mill, dies at Avignon in France
Personal	Sat, November 6, 1858	Samuel Eli Cornish, pioneer black journalist and abolitionist, dies in Brooklyn
Foreign	Sun, November 7, 1858	Mexican liberals begin to advance westward towards Mexico City in hopes of winning the War of the Reform
Personal	Mon, November 8, 1858	Benjamin Franklin Butler, former Attorney General of the United States, dies in Paris
Lawmaking/Litigating	Wed, November 10, 1858	The United States and Chile agree to submit the long standing "Macedonia" dispute for arbitration
Personal	Thu, November 11, 1858	James Garfield marries Lucretia Randolph in Ohio
Personal	Wed, November 17, 1858	Robert Owen dies in Wales, aged eighty
Foreign	Thu, November 18, 1858	Big Ben sounds for the first time
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, November 22, 1858	The city of Denver is founded in Colorado and named for the territorial governor
Foreign	Thu, November 25, 1858	Montalembert is tried and convicted for libel in a French imperial court
Lawmaking/Litigating	Thu, November 25, 1858	Vermont passes a new Personal Liberty Law