1857
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1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events
- January 9 – Earthquake at Fort Tejon, California with an estimated magnitude of 7.9
- February 16 – The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, DC becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf.
- March 3 – France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
- March 4 – End of term for President of the United States Franklin Pierce. He is succeeded by James Buchanan.
- March 5 – In London, ex-solicitor James Towsend Saward is sentenced for transportation for forging number of cheques over the years
- March 6 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.
- March 23 – Elisha Otis' first elevator is installed (at 488 Broadway, New York City)
- May 10 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the Mutiny of XI Native Cavalry of the Bengal Army in Meerut, revolt against the British Army
- May 11 – Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
- June 6 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
- July 15 – Second Cawnpore massacre during the Indian Mutiny
- August – Calcutta University established.
- September 11 – Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah
- November 30 – End of term for President of Mexico Ignacio Comonfort. He is succeeded by Félix María Zuloaga.
- December 31 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario as the capital of Canada
- Divorce without parliamentary approval becomes legal in Britain
- Speculation in US railway shares causes financial crisis in Europe
- Russian serfs emancipated
- The Mormons abandon Las Vegas
- Founding of Hollywood
- Restoration of the Mexican republic (see Mexico/History)
- Discovery of La Tene culture artifacts in Switzerland by Hansli Kopp.
- Philip Henry Gosse writes Omphalos text elaborating a Creationist school of thought
- University of Bombay established
- The Mughal Empire is finally destroyed by the British Empire.
- The city walls of Vienna are demolished, allowing the construction of the Ringstraße.
- Sweden lifts its ban on Danish language and Danish books in the formerly Danish provinces of Blekinge, Halland and Scania – 214 respectively 199 years after the annexion.
Births
- January 4 – Émile Courtet, French caricaturist and animator (d. 1938)
- February 12 – Bobby Peel, English cricketer (d. 1943).
- February 22 – Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of the Scouting movement (d. 1941)
- February 22 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
- March 8 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919)
- March 30 – Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
- April 5 – Alexander of Battenberg, first Prince of Bulgaria (d. 1893)
- May 7 – William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930)
- May 15 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (d. 1911)
- May 19 – John Jacob Abel, American pharmacologist (d. 1938)
- May 31 – Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
- June 2 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
- June 2 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (d. 1919)
- July 23 – Carl Meinhof, German linguist (d. 1944)
- July 30 – Thorstein Veblen, Norwegian economist (d. 1929)
- September 5 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and inventor (d. 1935)
- September 13 – Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (d. 1945)
- September 13 – Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant and revolutionary (d. 1937)
- November 26 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
- November 28 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)
- November 30 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (d. 1936)
- December 3 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist (d. 1924)
- Joseph Tabrar, British songwriter (d. 1931)
Deaths
- February 10 – David Thompson, British-Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
- February 15 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
- May 2 – Alfred de Musset, French poet (b. 1810)
- May 11 – Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal and private detective (b. 1775)
- May 23 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
- July 15 – Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
- July 19 – Stefano Franscini, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1796)
- August 3 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
- September 3 – John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
- November 26 – Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet (b. 1788)
- December 3 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (b. 1777)
- December 15 – Sir George Cayley, English aviation pioneer (b. 1773)
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