– Comet Donati, the first comet to be photographed, is discovered by Giovanni Battista Donati, and remains visible for several months afterwards. June 13–17 – The Treaty of Tientsin is signed, ending the first part of the Second Opium War. June 16 – Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican Party nomination for a seat in the United States Senate, delivering his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. June 17 – The Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad opens, operating 95 miles from Goldsboro, North Carolina, to New Bern, North Carolina. June 18 – The Queen of Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai, dies at 30 at Gwalior. June 19 – A six-minute earthquake destroys much of Mexico City and devastates Texcoco. June 20 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: The last rebels surrender in Gwalior. June 23 – Police of the Papal States seize Jewish boy Edgardo Mortara, and take him away to be raised as a Catholic. July–September 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. 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